Engineering Manager

Own the technical strategy and architecture for a trading platform covering: Order lifecycle and execution Market data ingestion and distribution Positions and portfolio Settlement and reconciliation Broker, exchange, and market-data integrations Reliability and correctness under live market conditions Latency budgets and latency-spike management Idempotency and reconciliation to ensure books are correct Audit-grade observability and incident response Rigorous testing and controlled releases Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Finance to ensure regulatory, KYC/AML, and audit requirements are built into the platform from the beginning. Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Desired Candidate Profile

Must-Have

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience 3+ years leading engineering teams , including hiring and growing engineers Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital-markets systems Hard requirement: Candidate must have shipped order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in production Strong understanding of: Order types and order lifecycle Market data feeds Clearing and settlement Corporate actions Reconciliation and audit requirements Regulated trading environments Strong technical judgment around correctness and latency Experience with AWS / private cloud / hybrid environments Comfortable with TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL Experience working alongside Compliance/Risk in regulated financial products Able to move quickly in a greenfield environment without compromising correctness or controls

Nice to Have

Launched a retail trading/investing product from zero FIX protocol Exchange or broker connectivity MENA/emerging-market financial-services experience Local regulatory knowledge