Summary

Zero Hash is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for digital assets and blockchain products to lead the development of our trading products. We’re looking for a true technologist with a love of programming and a drive for technical excellence. We believe that the best managers are technologists first with a product mindset who seek to make a larger impact in their organizations.

Responsibilities

1. Work with a team of talented engineers and product managers to deliver products and features that support zerohash’s business
2. Partner closely with zerohash product and program managers to ensure roadmap is well understood and team is able to plan and execute on expected outcomes
3. Work with the team on technical planning to ensure that product requirements are captured in the technical solution
4. Partner with other Engineering Managers to drive the technical roadmap forward
5. Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence
6. Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of zerohash
7. Recruit, coach, and develop engineers
8. Help engineers establish career development plans
9. Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Zero Hash’s engineering management team
10. Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams
11. Work with a wide range of stakeholders to build a clear vision for your team
12. Oversee the success of your team's projects and achieve quantifiable results
13. Introduce industry leading engineering patterns and practices that give us the confidence to do bold things
14. Make consistent development contributions so as to maintain competency with our codebase and system architecture

Required Experience

1. 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with significant focus on building and maintaining robust APIs and SDKs for B2B integration.
2. 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing staff and principal level engineers
3. BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
4. You've managed teams that have delivered great products
5. Golang expertise, familiar with Go’s idiomatic approach and niches.
6. Familiarity with TypeScript and React for frontend services.
7. Understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, including major protocols (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum), on-chain transaction flows, and common crypto security practices (key management, wallet types).
8. Domain Knowledge
9. Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle, and common risks associated with electronic trading.
10. Familiarity with regulatory requirements relevant to trading systems (e.g., MiFID II, Reg NMS).
11. Deep Understanding of Trading Systems
12. 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems (e.g., central limit order books (CLOBs), matching engines, market data feeds).
13. Proven experience with FIX Protocol (4.2 and higher) and implementing highly reliable FIX Gateway solutions.
14. High-Throughput/Low-Latency Development
15. Expertise in writing highly concurrent, multi-threaded, and low-garbage/zero-garbage code in languages commonly used in finance like Java (with deep JVM knowledge), C++, or Go.
16. Demonstrable experience optimizing system performance to achieve single-digit microsecond latency consistently.
17. Core Financial Infrastructure
18. Strong background in building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as trade booking systems, high-throughput accounting/ledger systems, and real-time credit/risk limit systems.
19. Distributed Systems & Data:
20. Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Kafka, ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence.

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Cryptocurrency
• Development
• React
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration
• TypeScript