Founding Engineering Lead – Stock Trading Platform

Digital Zone; Poland; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful role

Competitive compensation

Prestigious team

Job summary

Digital Zone in Poland is seeking a founding engineering leader to build and run the trading platform from zero to launch and beyond. This role requires delivering a safe, low-latency, regulated-capital product where correctness is non-negotiable.

You will hire and mentor the team, define architecture, own delivery, and partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance to embed controls, KYC/AML, and audit readiness from day one.

Qualifications

• 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

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

Job description

Digital Zone in Poland is seeking a founding engineering leader to build and run the trading platform from zero to launch and beyond. This role requires delivering a safe, low-latency, regulated-capital product where correctness is non-negotiable.

You will hire and mentor the team, define architecture, own delivery, and partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance to embed controls, KYC/AML, and audit readiness from day one.