Lead Engineering Manager
JustMarkets · Remote
We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams within a specific area 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 multiple engineering teams (25+ engineers)
- Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes across your engineering area
- Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
- Drive engineering strategy and cross-team alignment across the area
- Coordinate architectural decisions and their implementation across teams
- Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
- Own the area roadmap and resource allocation across teams
- Identify and address systemic technical and organizational risks and ensure the long-term scalability and health of the engineering area
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and support the development of engineering teams
- 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, with experience managing Engineering Managers or Team Leads
- Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
- Strong understanding of backend systems, ideally with hands-on experience in Ruby
- Experience operating systems on AWS (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring
- Advanced Ukrainian and Upper-Intermediate English
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)