Director of Engineering – Fixed Income Platform
Website Trading Technologies
Futures Trading Platform
We are seeking a highly experienced and dynamic Director of Engineering to lead the
modernization, development and maintenance of our fixed income platform. This platform
(buyside and sellside) is critical to our business, providing sophisticated tools, connectivity and
analytics for trading in the fixed income markets. The Director of Engineering will be responsible
for overseeing a team of talented engineers, driving technical innovation, and ensuring the
platform's scalability, reliability, and security.
modernization, development and maintenance of our fixed income platform. This platform
(buyside and sellside) is critical to our business, providing sophisticated tools, connectivity and
analytics for trading in the fixed income markets. The Director of Engineering will be responsible
for overseeing a team of talented engineers, driving technical innovation, and ensuring the
platform's scalability, reliability, and security.
What Will You Be Involved With?
Leadership and Management:
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Manage performance, provide coaching and development opportunities, and conduct regular performance reviews.
- Recruit and onboard new engineering talent to expand the team's capabilities.
- Effectively delegate tasks, manage workloads, and ensure timely project delivery.
- Technical Strategy and Execution:
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for the fixed-income platform, aligning them with business objectives and market trends.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of new features and enhancements.
- Ensure the platform's scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the platform evolution.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, clients, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Communicate effectively with senior management on project status, risks, and opportunities.
- Foster strong relationships with technology vendors and partners.
Platform Ownership:
- Take ownership of the overall health and stability of the fixed income platform.
- Monitor platform performance, identify and resolve issues, and implement proactive measures to prevent future problems.
- Ensure compliance with relevant industry regulations and security standards.
What Will You Bring to the Table?
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on building electronic trading platforms.
- Experience working with high-frequency market data and middleware technologies such as Solace, LBM, and Aeron.
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of fixed income markets, instruments, and trading workflows. Strong technical skills in relevant technologies, such as Java and C++, cloud computing (AWS), and database technologies.
- Experience with building and maintaining high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Experience with execution and alpha-generating algorithms.
- Experience with data analytics to inform trading decisions.
- Experience with IaaC in cloud environments.
- Strong fixed income domain knowledge.
What We Bring to the Table
- Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision,
- Flexible work schedules – with hybrid work – the expectation of 2 days on-site
- 21 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, 1 day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during milestone year, 10 days of Sick Leave, a robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, and generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents)
- Tech resources, including, a “rent-to-own” program where employees are eligible for a company-provided Mac/PC laptop and/or mobile phone of their choice; and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment, etc.
- Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives
- Milestone anniversary bonuses
- Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
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