Engineering Manager

Digital Zone; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate impact

Top compensation

Regional talent

Job summary

Digital Zone is seeking a founding engineering leader to build and lead the team behind a new online stock trading product, from zero to launch and beyond. This greenfield, high-stakes domain demands correctness: orders, positions, and money must be right every time under latency and market-hours pressure.

You will hire the team, set the technical direction, and own delivery of a platform that handles real customer capital, focusing on end-to-end order lifecycle, market data, and settlement with

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Direct experience building or operating online stock trading or capital markets systems.
• Fluency in order lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing, settlement, and audits.
• Strong capability to lead architecture reviews and balance correctness and latency.
• Experience in TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up: hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set the bar for a domain where a bug is a financial loss, not a ticket.
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform: order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio, settlement and reconciliation.
• Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations, and the connectivity decisions that come with them.
• Own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, capacity for open and close and volatility spikes, idempotency, and reconciliation that proves the books are right.
• Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance so regulatory, KYC, AML, and audit requirements are designed in rather than retrofitted.
• Establish the engineering practices this domain demands: rigorous testing, controlled release, incident response, and audit-grade observability across the order path.

Skills

Team leadership

Financial services domain knowledge

Architecture judgment

Reliability & latency design

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Postgres

AWS

Job description

You will build and lead the engineering team behind new online stock trading product, from zero to launch and beyond. This is a founding engineering leadership role on a greenfield product in a domain where correctness is not negotiable: orders, positions, and money must be right every time, under latency and market-hours pressure. You will hire the team, set the technical direction, and own delivery of a platform that handles real customer capital.

What you’ll do

• Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up: hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set the bar for a domain where a bug is a financial loss, not a ticket
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform: order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio, settlement and reconciliation
• Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations, and the connectivity decisions that come with them
• Own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, capacity for open and close and volatility spikes, idempotency, and reconciliation that proves the books are right
• Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance so regulatory, KYC, AML, and audit requirements are designed in rather than retrofitted
• Establish the engineering practices this domain demands: rigorous testing, controlled release, incident response, and audit-grade observability across the order path

Requirements

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring and growing engineers
• Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems. This is a hard requirement: you have shipped order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in production
• Working fluency in the domain: order types and lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing and settlement, corporate actions, and the reconciliation and audit expectations that come with regulated trading
• Strong hands—on technical judgment to lead architecture reviews and make correctness and latency tradeoffs. Comfortable in a TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environments
• Experience working alongside compliance and risk in a regulated financial product
• The judgment to move fast on a greenfield product without compromising the correctness and controls the domain requires

Nice to have

• Experience launching a retail trading or investing product from zero
• Exposure to FIX protocol or exchange and broker connectivity
• MENA or emerging-market financial services experience, including market entry and local regulatory context

Benefits

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
• Top-of-the-market compensation packages
• Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more