About the Rolezerohash is hiring a VP of Engineering to lead our Trade organization, the team responsible for the trading technology that powers execution, liquidity, and market access across our platform. As zerohash scales, we're looking for a leader with deep, hands-on trading systems expertise, a proven track record building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, and the presence to represent trade engineering at the leadership table. We believe the best engineering leaders are technologists first, with a product and business mindset, who seek outsized impact across the company.
Responsibilities- Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for zerohash's trade organization, and align it with company strategy and the roadmaps of the transact, tokenize, and core teams
- Build, lead, and scale a multi-team organization - hiring, developing, and retaining engineering managers, principal/staff engineers, and individual contributors as the team grows
- Act as the executive owner of trading systems reliability, performance, and risk, including matching engines, order/execution infrastructure, market data, and FIX connectivity
- Partner directly with the CTO, SVP Engineering, product leadership, and zerohash's other VP(s) of Engineering to set org-wide technical standards, priorities, and engineering culture
- Represent engineering to company leadership and key partners/clients on matters related to trading technology
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior technical talent; build durable career paths for the team
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to ensure trading systems meet the regulatory requirements relevant to zerohash's markets
- Drive build-vs-buy, technical debt, and architecture trade-off decisions at an organizational level
- Stay technically credible, engage deeply enough in system design and code-level decisions to earn the trust of senior engineers and maintain competency with the codebase and system architecture
Requirements- 15+ years of software design and development experience, with deep hands-on background in backend and distributed systems
- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and senior/principal/staff engineers
- Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations (30+ engineers) at a high-growth fintech, trading firm, exchange, or crypto company
- Experience owning multi-team technical strategy and roadmap at a VP, Director, or Head of Engineering level
- Prior exposure to fast-growth startups and comfort operating with ambiguity
- Exceptional executive communication skills
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Legal
- Cloud computing experience, with AWS highly desirable
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong bias toward serving your team and stakeholders, with a growth mindset
Domain Knowledge- Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle, and common risks associated with electronic trading
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements relevant to trading systems (e.g., MiFID II, Reg NMS)
Deep Understanding of Trading Systems- 10+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems (e.g., central limit order books (CLOBs), matching engines, market data feeds)
- Proven experience with FIX Protocol (4.2 and higher) and implementing highly reliable FIX Gateway solutions
High-Throughput / Low-Latency Development- Expertise in highly concurrent, multi-threaded, low-garbage/zero-garbage code in languages commonly used in finance such as C++, Rust, or Go
- Demonstrable experience optimizing system performance to achieve single-digit microsecond latency
Core Financial Infrastructure- Strong background building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as trade booking systems, high-throughput accounting/ledger systems, and real-time credit/risk limit systems
- Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Kafka, ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence
Benefits- Healthcare Insurance: zerohash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only)
- Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only)
- Chance to earn equity
- Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months)
- WeWork All Access Membership
- WFH Yearly Stipend
- L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)
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