Engineering Manager

Digital Zone; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 480,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Zone is seeking a seasoned leader to build and helm a trading engineering team in a high-growth environment in the United Arab Emirates. You will own the technical strategy for the trading platform, including order lifecycle, execution, and market data ingestion, while driving broker and data integrations.

You will partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance to embed KYC/AML and audit requirements in the design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams and hiring/growing engineers.
• Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems.
• Shipped order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in production.
• Fluent in domain: order lifecycles, market data feeds, clearing/settlement, and audit expectations for regulated trading.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up, hiring and mentoring engineers.
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform, including order lifecycle, execution, and market data ingestion.
• Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations and connectivity decisions.
• Ensure reliability and correctness under market conditions with latency budgets and robust reconciliation.
• Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance to embed regulatory and audit requirements.
• Establish engineering practices like rigorous testing, controlled releases, incident response, and observability.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Trading systems knowledge

Latency optimization

Architectural judgment

TypeScript

Go

AWS

Hybrid cloud

Tools

PostgreSQL

Go

TypeScript

AWS

FIX protocol

Job description

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.
• 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

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.