Lead Engineering Manager

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 (25+ 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

• Advanced Ukrainian and Upper-Intermediate English

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)