Founding Engineering Manager, Real-Time Trading Platform

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

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