Head - Engineering

Responsibilities:

Build and Lead a team of exceptional developers with a passion for innovation, full-stack solutions, and financial services. You will be responsible for designing, building, improving, and maintaining our products and systems supporting global brokerage, payments, wealth management, account management, billing, onboarding, content, and custodian services. Products include global equities, options, futures, fixed income, structured products, currency, banking networks, custodian network, customer identification network, cloud services, money market and mutual funds, UCITS, banking accounts, and more. Every product we build is for external use by clients and affiliated entities. Our clients use our products to run front office, middle office, back office, administrative and compliance functions. This requires experience and confidence with the full stack of technology, languages, data bases, libraries, and building and deploying mission critical commercial technology that operates at scale with precision and with regulatory and financial implications for failure or downtime.

- Define, architect, and execute the organizational plan required to fulfill the company's and its client's business and technology strategies.

- Recruit, develop, manage and scale a talented technology team committed to developing innovative solutions aligned with the company's business model, values, and vision.

- Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication with stakeholders.

- Advise and make executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.

- Supervise all functional areas of technology including software design and development, enterprise architecture, quality assurance/testing, scalability, UIT and product operations and technical support, network and systems administration, and information security management.

- Design and implement technology information security, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

- Work in partnership with teams and business and technology leaders in the United States, Europe, Asia, and India.

- Stay on the leading edge of technology.

- Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.

- Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers.

- Become and expert in the business of our Firm and our clients.

- Participate in strategic decisions of the firm and our clients, including advising our clients technology and business leaders, participating as a member of our Firms leadership team, helping our Firm to win new business and expand our reach into our client's enterprise solution needs.

- Conceptualize, lead, and deliver new initiatives for global locations and markets.

- Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.

- Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Bachelor Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field or learning through doing, in either case with success in developing and deployment of successful technology applications and services.

- 10+ years of work experience in software development with at least 5+ years in a leadership role.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills a must.

- Confidence in taking on challenges with a drive for learning and team success a must.

- Success in developing and deploying full stack commercial solutions a must.

- Experience in building large scale distributed systems. Experience with building search, recommendation systems, production-grade machine learning systems, or other data- driven products or systems with advanced algorithms is a plus.

- Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems

- Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.

- Ability to articulate complex subjects in simple terms to drive team toward completion of the project.

- Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

- Desired experience with Go, PHP (Laravel), NodeJS

- Hands on experience with Java, Groovy, C#, NodeJS, PL/SQL

- Hands on experience working with CI/CD tools such as Git/SVN, Gradle/Maven, Jenkins to create, maintain and guide deployment flows.

- Hands on experience with databases and queues:

- MS SQL

- MySQL/MariaDB

- Redis (as cache/database/queue)

- MongoDB

- Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/MessageBus/etc..

- Deep conceptual knowledge of real-time data transfer, large dataset manipulation, data- at-rest vs. data-flow.

- Conceptual and practical understanding of AWS, Azure with containerization and execution with VM or Kubernetes. Full knowledge of practical applications of load- balancers, failover, uptime concepts.

- Experience with Networking/Firewall is a plus

- System Administration (Linux, Windows)

- Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience.

Engaging and influencing peers and executives.

- A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.

- Being a strong leader, mentor, and people manager.

- Difference between trend and practical application.

Besides skills we are looking

- Startup and Entrepreneurial mindset.

- Execution oriented.

- Ability to think big.

- Collaborative mindset.

What does we bring to the table:

- Opportunity to do what your current firm may be hesitant to do.

- An informal and self-managed work culture.

- Freedom to experiment with new ideas and technologies.

- A highly motivating work environment where you learn exponentially and grow with the organization.

- An opportunity to create an impact at scale.