Director of Engineering, Trading
You will define and own the engineering roadmap for the institutional trading platform and lead a high performing engineering team. You will partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align priorities with institutional strategy. You will drive the evolution toward a multi asset trading architecture across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives. You will design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to: trading APIs, the proprietary order management system, real time risk, and margin engines. You will set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency sensitive systems. You will coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer facing tooling. You will work cross functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production ready systems. You will represent institutional trading engineering in executive level planning and decision making. You will provide technical and architectural thought leadership in trading and brokerage technology, influencing direction internally and through industry engagement. You will hands on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point.
Responsibilities
- Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for the institutional trading platform
- Build, lead, and scale a high performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and execution
- Partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy
- Lead the evolution toward a multi asset trading architecture supporting cross margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives
- Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real time risk, and margin engines
- Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency sensitive systems
- Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer facing tooling
- Work cross functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production ready systems
- Represent institutional trading engineering in executive level planning and decision making
- Provide technical and architectural thought leadership in trading and brokerage technology, influencing direction internally and through industry engagement
- Hands on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point
Requirements
- A Director-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams focused on complex, high-impact systems
- Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics
- Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments
- Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems
- Effective partner to senior business, brokerage, and product leaders
- Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card