Group Engineering Manager for JustMarkets

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 cross-functional engineering teams up to 30 engineers (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)

- Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams

- 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

- 5+ 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, 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

Will be a Plus

- 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