Head of Trading Infrastructure

Delta6Labs

Dadri

On-site

INR 3,500,000 - 8,000,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Delta6Labs is hiring a Head of Trading Infrastructure to own the platform from the ground up. You will define the technical direction, drive reliability engineering, and design the risk and control layer for an institutional-grade execution platform.

You will lead a team spanning low-latency systems, distributed architectures, market data, connectivity, and risk, while collaborating with product, compliance, security, and regulatory stakeholders to meet demanding standards.

Qualifications

15+ years in trading or market-infrastructure technology or similar.
5+ years leading senior engineers and/or owning architecture of a mission-critical trading platform.
Deep understanding of electronic markets: matching, order lifecycle, market-data design, routing, and recovery.

Responsibilities

Shape the multi-year technical roadmap for the full execution path including gateways, routing, and exchange connectivity.
Build liquidity aggregation and routing layer for multi-venue execution with low latency.
Stand up resilient, low-overhead links to multiple exchanges and unified market-data feed.
Design interfaces for institutional clients (FIX/FIXP/SBE, binary, REST/WebSocket) with deterministic order entry.
Drive tail-latency reduction end-to-end to maintain p99/p99.9 during volatile markets.
Architect the risk and protection layer with pre-trade validation, guards, and kill switches.
Engineer deterministic replay, audit trails, and production governance for regulatory readiness.
Hire, mentor, and grow an engineering team across low-latency systems and market data.

Skills

15+ years in trading

5+ years leading senior engineers

C++ on Linux

Networking

Concurrency

Low-latency design

Tail-latency tuning

Auditable systems

Executive/business communication

Tools

FIX / FIXP / SBE

Binary market protocols

RDMA / FPGA-aware designs

Job description

Head of Trading Infrastructure

Open

We are now launching a dedicated institutional venue: a single-access platform that lets high-net-worth individuals, dealer desks, professional traders, large trading firms, and HFT shops execute across the exchanges and liquidity sources we connect to, all through one fast, deterministic, fully auditable system. We’re looking for a leader to take ownership of that platform from the ground up. You will set the technical direction, drive the performance and reliability engineering, design the risk and control layer, and grow the team that builds it. The goal is institutional-grade execution infrastructure measured against the standards set by venues like CME and Nasdaq: fast, predictable, resilient, traceable, and ready for regulatory scrutiny from day one.

The people who thrive in this role have spent their careers close to the matching layer, at exchanges, brokers, prime brokers, market makers, HFT firms, clearing houses, or large market infrastructure providers and are equally comfortable in an architecture review and a board-level conversation.

What You’ll Own

Platform direction

Shape the multi-year technical roadmap for the full execution path: client gateways, pre-trade controls, routing and matching, exchange connectivity, market data, post-trade processing, replay, and recovery.

Liquidity aggregation and routing

Build the layer that consolidates books and depth across connected venues and the routing logic that decides where and how each order works, splitting, sweeping, and selecting venues with awareness of price, fees, and latency, all within tight, predictable time budgets.

Venue connectivity

Stand up resilient, low-overhead links to multiple exchanges: unified symbology and order-state mapping, rate-limit and throttle handling, clean reconnection and failover, and a consolidated market-data feed across sources.

Client access

Design the interfaces our institutional and HFT clients trade through, FIX/FIXP/SBE, binary, and REST/WebSocket, tuned for deterministic order entry and friendly to co-located, latency-sensitive flow.

Latency and determinism

Drive tail-latency work end-to-end so that p99 and p99.9 hold steady even when markets are at their most violent.

Risk and protection

Architect the control layer that keeps both clients and the platform safe, including pre-trade validation, fat-finger and price-collar guards, self-trade prevention, throttling, position and margin limits, cancel-on-disconnect, kill switches, and emergency stops.

Audit and compliance readiness

Engineer deterministic replay, complete audit trails, sequence recovery, and disciplined production governance so the platform stands up to regulators across jurisdictions.

Standardization

Bring one coherent architecture and API contract across spot, margin, perpetuals, futures, options, unified accounts, portfolio margin, and institutional access.

Engineering rigor

Set the bar for performance work, benchmarking, packet-level tracing, replay-based validation, and a real production-certification process, and own architecture reviews, incident learnings, resilience testing, and capacity planning.

The team and the partners

Hire, mentor, and grow a strong engineering group across low-latency systems, distributed systems, market data, connectivity, and risk; and work shoulder-to-shoulder with product, compliance, security, risk, and regional regulatory teams.

What We’re Looking For

15+ years in trading or market-infrastructure technology, exchanges, HFT, market making, brokerage/DMA, clearing, liquidity aggregation, or similar.
5+ years leading senior engineers and/or owning the architecture of a mission-critical trading platform.
A genuine grasp of how electronic markets work under the hood: matching and crossing, the full order lifecycle, market-data design, cross-venue consolidation, routing and best execution, trade capture and reconciliation, and recovery.
Deep, hands-on command of C++ on Linux, plus networking, concurrency, lock-free design, memory and cache behavior, binary protocols, and tail-latency tuning.
A track record of shipping systems that are resilient, observable, replayable, and auditable in regulated or institutional settings.
The range to move between executive strategy and low-level technical detail, and the communication skills to carry both engineering and business stakeholders.

Nice to Have

Any Of The Following Will Stand Out

Multi-venue connectivity, liquidity aggregation, smart order routing, or DMA / prime-brokerage platforms
Matching engines, OMS/EMS, and post-trade or clearing systems
FIX / FIXP / SBE / OUCH / ITCH and other binary market protocols
Multicast market data and replay pipelines
PTP / IEEE 1588 timing, DPDK, RDMA, and FPGA-aware designs
Pre-trade risk and market-access control frameworks
High-availability design and disaster recovery for trading systems
Audit and trade-surveillance tooling
Co-location / cross-connect setups and onboarding of latency-sensitive clients

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