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Group Engineering Manager

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Group Engineering Manager at a company focused on building and operating a high-performance trading platform. You will oversee engineering squads and ensure the platform's reliability and performance while managing vendor relationships and aligning business priorities.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating high-reliability systems.
  • 5+ years of experience managing multiple teams through Engineering Managers or IT Managers.
  • Proven experience leading 24/7 production operations and incident response.
  • Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.
  • Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience driving cross-team delivery and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple IT and engineering teams through their managers, driving hiring, development, and performance
  • Own production reliability and operational excellence of the trading platform, including availability, incident management, and continuous improvement
  • Drive end-to-end trading performance, including order execution latency, throughput, and market-data delivery
  • Manage key vendor relationships, including trading platform providers, liquidity bridges, and colocation

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership
  • Distributed Team Management

About the company

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JustMarkets

  • Capital Markets & Investment Banking
  • 201–500
JustMarkets is a top-notch online CFD trading brokerage that has over a decade of successful working experience with clients in 180+ countries. Customer is JustMarkets' core value. We always listen carefully to every feedback we get to ensure that our services and developments help clients achieve their trading goals in the most efficient way. Our multilingual 24/7 customer support is always ready to help every JustMarkets user. We are attentive to those who help us develop. To do this, we have created a Three-Level IB partner system that allows our affiliates to conduct profitable and transparent business activities with us. JustMarkets is continuously developing and improving trading conditions, providing the lowest spreads, reducing commissions, and expanding the range of tools to trade Majors, Minors, Indices, Stocks, Metals, and Energies. JustMarkets Copytrading service is an in-house development that allows users to automatically copy trades of successful traders whose riskiness is ranked using the Risk Score service. We are all about Markets!

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Job description

We are looking for an experienced Group Engineering Manager to lead a group of engineering squads responsible for building and operating a high-performance trading platform. You will oversee teams working across the full trading technology stack, from colocation infrastructure and networking to liquidity bridges and client-facing web and mobile applications.

This role combines engineering leadership, production operations, and business alignment, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and delivery in a 24/7, latency-sensitive environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple IT and engineering teams through their managers, driving hiring, development, and performance
  • Own production reliability and operational excellence of the trading platform, including availability, incident management, and continuous improvement
  • Drive end-to-end trading performance, including order execution latency, throughput, and market-data delivery
  • Lead 24/7 operations and incident response, ensuring effective escalation and service recovery
  • Own delivery across the group, aligning priorities, resources, and commitments
  • Manage key vendor relationships, including trading platform providers, liquidity bridges, and colocation
  • Ensure the platform meets regulatory, security, and risk requirements in collaboration with Security and Compliance
  • Track engineering, IT operations, and reliability metrics, driving improvements across the group

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating high-reliability systems
  • 5+ years of experience managing multiple teams through Engineering Managers or IT Managers
  • Proven experience leading 24/7 production operations and incident response
  • Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems
  • Experience in fintech, trading, financial services, or another regulated environment
  • Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience driving cross-team delivery and operational excellence
  • Advanced Ukrainian and Upper-Intermediate English

Will be a plus

  • Experience leading product development and operations of client-facing trading applications
  • Experience with IT Service Management practices (ITIL 4)

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)

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