Engineering Manager

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams 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 one or multiple cross-functional engineering teams (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams
• Own strategic initiatives in engineering department
• Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
• Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management
• Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Identify and reduce technical debt, while maintaining delivery velocity
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
• 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
• Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
• Strong understanding of backend systems
• Experience operating systems on different cloud systems (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring

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)

Originally posted on Himalayas