Product Engineering - Team Lead

Wintermute Asia Pte. Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wintermute Asia Pte. Ltd. is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the development of the NODE platform in London. This is a hands-on role that will involve defining and owning the technical architecture for our trading products, managing a team of engineers, and driving technical strategies. Candidates should have over 8 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles, and a deep understanding of complex and high-throughput systems. Wintermute offers UK visa sponsorship and relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Proven track record of making architecture decisions for complex applications.
• Deep experience building and scaling real-time, high-data-volume systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical architecture for trading products.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across the full stack.
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap alongside product leadership.
• Architect systems for high data volumes and low-latency interactions.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions for complex applications

High-speed data systems

Frontend stack knowledge

Server-side experience

System architecture understanding

DevOps fundamentals

Security best practices

Hiring and mentoring engineers

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

Go

Job description

About Wintermute

Wintermute is one of the largest crypto‑native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, a broad range of OTC trading products as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto. We actively participate in the development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments, partnerships, and incubation of projects.

Working at Wintermute

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the development of our NODE platform, enabling seamless crypto trading experiences for institutional clients. This is a hands‑on, cross‑functional role that will have direct impact. You will work closely with engineers, designers, core developers, and stakeholders across the business to define, build, and ship a secure, scalable, and high‑performance trading platform.

What you will work on

• Define and own the technical architecture for Wintermute’s trading products, client‑facing portals, and internal applications — making the key technology and design decisions that determine how these systems are built and scaled.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across the full stack, setting standards for code quality, review processes, and engineering best practices.
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap alongside product leadership, translating business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Architect systems that handle high data volumes, real‑time streaming, and low‑latency interactions — the kind of challenges you’d find on a trading platform processing millions of events per second.
• Oversee frontend experience across the full customer lifecycle, from onboarding portals to real‑time trading dashboards.
• Work cross‑functionally with product, marketing, trading, and backend engineering teams to ensure alignment and delivery.
• Establish and evolve engineering processes — sprint planning, incident response, deployment pipelines — that let the team ship with confidence and speed.

Hard skills requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role (tech lead, engineering lead, or similar).
• Proven track record of making architecture decisions for complex, data‑intensive applications — ideally in trading platforms, financial services, or other high‑throughput/low‑latency environments.
• Deep experience building and scaling real‑time, high‑data‑volume systems (e.g., trading dashboards, live data feeds, streaming analytics, order management systems).
• Strong command of the modern frontend stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js — and the ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies as needed.
• Hands‑on server‑side experience: building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using languages such as Node.js, Python, Go, or similar.
• Solid understanding of end‑to‑end system architecture: APIs, microservices, event‑driven architectures, WebSockets, message queues, databases, and how frontend and backend systems work together in high‑performance environments.
• Experience with infrastructure and DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD, cloud platforms, CDN, monitoring/observability, and deployment strategies.
• Strong understanding of security best practices (OWASP, authentication/authorization patterns, secure data handling) — especially in a financial context.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers — building a high‑performing team, not just managing one.

Nice to have

• Experience at a trading firm, fintech, or any environment where milliseconds matter and data volumes are extreme.
• Familiarity with algorithmic trading concepts and financial market infrastructure.
• Experience with performance optimization at scale — profiling, caching strategies, efficient rendering of large datasets.
• Experience with backend technologies beyond Node.js (Python, Go, Rust, or similar) for performance‑critical services.

Write to us if you

• Love making hard technical decisions and seeing them pay off at scale.
• Get energized by building high‑performance systems that handle serious data volumes.
• Want to shape the technical direction of a product team, not just execute on someone else’s plan.
• Are passionate about engineering culture — code quality, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Are curious about algorithmic trading and financial markets.
• Are determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to lead by example.
• Thrive in a meritocratic environment where impact matters more than titles.
• Prefer ownership over process — you’d rather build the right thing than follow a playbook.
• Enjoy working in‑person with your team (not fully remote).

Tip for a successful application

We will arrange a UK visa sponsorship and help with relocation to London.