Senior Manager of Software Engineering -FI Electronic Trading Real-Time Position & Risk Tech Lead

Overview

In this role you will lead and deliver a real-time risk and position platform that operates in the electronic trading execution path. You’ll drive architecture, performance, and resilience for latency-sensitive systems, collaborating with traders, quants, risk and engineering teams across execution, market data, and booking. You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and help grow a high-performing team focused on reliability and production readiness. This is a hands-on leadership role that connects technical direction with business outcomes in fast-moving markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the real-time position and risk platform, focusing on architecture, patterns, performance, and resilience
• Deliver real-time position keeping across trade lifecycle events (amendments, cancels, allocations, booking states)
• Build and enhance real-time risk capabilities (risk factor ingestion, curve moves, sensitivities, scenario/ P&L explain)
• Implement straight-through processing and controls (reconciliation, data quality checks, audit trail, observability)
• Define robust data contracts and safe change management with execution and booking teams
• Enforce non-functional requirements (latency budgets, throughput, determinism, fault tolerance, recovery)
• Communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders in business terms as a technical expert
• Raise engineering standards across coding, testing, CI/CD, release discipline, production readiness
• Drive design reviews and execution discipline for scalable, maintainable solutions
• Mentor engineers and support hiring, onboarding, and team development

Key requirements

• Strong Core Java development with OO design and API design
• Experience building low-latency, event-driven, real-time systems with messaging, ordering, idempotency, backpressure
• Deep knowledge of multi-threading and performance tuning/memory management
• Understanding of distributed systems, including consistency, retries, failure modes, replay, resilience
• Experience operating production systems on Unix/Linux with logging, metrics, tracing
• Ability to define and implement system architecture with clear data contracts
• Strong SDLC discipline (unit/integration/regression/performance testing)
• Experience handling high-volume streaming inputs with correctness guarantees
• Proven ability to lead through influence (design reviews, prioritization, mentoring)
• Calm, structured production environment approach including incident management and root-cause remediation

• leadership by influence
• stakeholder alignment
• mentoring and team development
• Core Java
• low-latency event-driven systems
• multithreading and performance tuning

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