JustMarkets
via Greenhouse
Lead Engineering Manager
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What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
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How old is it?
Posted 6d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-09-08). Last seen at its source 3h ago.
Is it remote?
Remote, Europe
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Who may apply?
Europe
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Pay not stated
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greenhouse employer's own board first seen 6d ago · last seen 3h ago
The listing
We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams within a specific area building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage multiple engineering teams (40–60+ engineers)
- Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes across your engineering area
- Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
- Drive engineering strategy and cross-team alignment across the area
- Coordinate architectural decisions and their implementation across teams
- Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
- Own the area roadmap and resource allocation across teams
- Identify and address systemic technical and organizational risks and ensure the long-term scalability and health of the engineering area
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and support the development of engineering teams
- Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role, with experience managing Engineering Managers or Team Leads
- Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
- Strong understanding of backend systems, ideally with hands-on experience in Ruby
- Experience operating systems on AWS (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring
Will be a plus
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments
- Hands-on experience in Ruby
- Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms
- Experience scaling teams and systems
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
We offer
- 20 paid vacation days per year
- 10 paid sick leave days per year
- Public holidays as per the company's approved Public holiday list
- Medical insurance
- Opportunity to work remotely
- Professional education budget
- Language learning budget
- Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)
Role mission
To empower engineering teams to consistently deliver high-quality, scalable software by fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while aligning engineering execution with business goals.
Requirements hard skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role
- Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
- Strong understanding of backend systems, ideally with hands-on experience in Ruby
- Experience operating systems on AWS (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring
Requirements soft skills
Customer first
Trust
Passionate about work
Continuous learning
Result driven
Ownership
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage one or multiple cross-functional engineering teams (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)
- Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams
- Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
- Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management
- Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure
- Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
- Identify and reduce technical debt, while maintaining delivery velocity
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
- Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented
Will be a plus
- Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms
- Experience scaling teams and systems
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools