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Group Engineering Manager for JustMarkets
Technologies
Description
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams 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
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Lead and manage cross-functional engineering teams up to 30 engineers (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
Requirements
- 5+ 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
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
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 cross-functional engineering teams up to 30 engineers (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
Requirements
- 5+ 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
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