Tech Lead / Manager
A Tech Lead / Manager plays a critical role in our firm to ensure system and team health as well as drive product execution. Responsibilities for this role include technical leadership in designing, building, and maintaining large scale systems as well as people-leadership to help engineers grow and deliver at scale
Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to a team of developers, guiding them in best practices, architecture design, and code reviews to maintain high-quality software development standards.
- Project Management: Collaborate with product owners, project managers, and other engineering teams to define project scope, technical requirements, and milestones. Develop project plans, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery of projects.
- Software Development: Participate in software development activities, including coding, debugging, and troubleshooting, to support the team in delivering solutions related to financial events and risk management
- Architecture and Design: Drive architecture and design decisions ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Collaboration: Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
- People Management: Drive skill and career growth for team members utilizing performance management tools as applicable
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields .
- At least 8+ years of experience in quantitative software development
- A strong background in building large scale systems related to one or the following or something similar:
- exchange matching engines
- execution desk infrastructure
- order management systems (financial or non-financial)
- real-time trading systems
- state management system
- Ability to write production-grade (robust and maintainable) Python code
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong probability, statistical modeling and data science skills
- Experience with common data tools (e.g. PyData stack, Looker/Tableau, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake/BigQuery/Athena
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- 3+ years in managing engineering teams
- Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.