**ABOUT THE ROLE**As the VP, Full Stack Engineering Lead for Equity Products and Execution, you will drive the technical vision, architectural strategy, and delivery execution for a next-generation Cash Equity and Equity Derivatives engineering ecosystem. This mission-critical mandate will align equity product lines and build connected employee and client journeys through robust capabilities, shared platform services, and high-performance execution workflows across Cash Equities, Equity Swaps, Listed Options, Delta-One, and Structured Equity products. We are looking for a strategic, hands-on engineering leader who combines deep equity domain knowledge with expertise in scalable, cloud-native, high-throughput full-stack platforms. You will evolve the equity execution platform by identifying shared architectural patterns and translating complex multi-asset transactional and analytical requirements into a resilient, real-time distributed ecosystem.**WHAT YOU’LL DO*** **Architectural Leadership & Evolution:** Drive the technical vision and evolution of the equity execution ecosystem into a cloud-native, microservices-based architecture of shared capabilities on modern container platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.* **Equity Product Alignment:** Identify architectural commonalities across Cash Equities, Equity Swaps, Listed Derivatives, and Structured Equity products, designing reusable services that address shared execution, pricing, and platform needs.* **Hands-on Technical Execution:** Lead, mentor, and guide engineering squads while driving common engineering standards, reusable code patterns, and unified design reviews across equity product lines.* **High-Throughput Streaming & Messaging:** Design and optimize low-latency equity transaction flows, real-time market data distribution, and event-driven architectures using WebSockets and modern messaging platforms such as AMQ or Kafka.* **Full-Stack Platform Delivery:** Champion resilient server-side architectures using Java, Spring Boot, and Python, alongside interactive ReactJS frontends that support real-time operational workflows, equity risk views, and trade lifecycle flows.* **Market Data & Analytics Integration:** Orchestrate real-time equity market data ingestion from sources such as Bloomberg, Reuters, and exchange feeds, and integrate pricing models, volatility surfaces, and analytics engines into the equity transaction lifecycle.* **Ecosystem Innovation:** Evaluate and deploy emerging technologies—including AI coding assistants, NLP applications, and LLM integrations—to improve developer productivity and modernize the equity engineering ecosystem.* **Stakeholder Partnership:** Serve as a key technical advisor to product owners, business heads, and senior leadership across equity desks, translating business needs into cohesive technical roadmaps and execution plans.**WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR*** **Proven Track Record:** 9+ years of experience in enterprise financial environments such as Tier 1 investment banks or institutional FinTechs, with proven success leading Agile engineering squads focused on equity trading platforms.* **Full-Stack Technical Mastery:** Expert-level, hands-on engineering capability across Java (Spring Boot), ReactJS, and Python.* **Cloud-Native & Container Depth:** Practical experience architecting and migrating platforms to modern container orchestrators (such as Kubernetes or OpenShift), with strong CI/CD automation expertise.* **Shared Services Mindset:** Demonstrated ability to identify overlapping business and technical requirements across equity product desks and consolidate them into robust, reusable services.* **High-Availability Systems Design:** Proven success designing and delivering high-performance, low-latency equity platforms such as electronic order management systems (OMS/EMS), algorithmic execution hubs, real-time risk platforms, or equivalent high-throughput streaming systems for equities.* **Deep Equity Domain Knowledge:** Strong expertise across Cash Equities, Equity Swaps, Delta-One, and Listed/Exotic Equity Derivatives, with a clear understanding of trade lifecycles, STP, and electronic distribution.* **Resilient Engineering Practices:** Strong commitment to software craftsmanship, including TDD, automation, memory profiling, performance stress testing, and clean-code architectural patterns.* **Innovation-Driven:** Active experience or strong interest in leveraging AI assistant coding tools and LLMs to optimize team delivery and software engineering lifecycles.* **Academic & Professional Credentials:** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Agile or cloud certifications such as PMI-ACP or CKAD are preferred.