Engineering Manager - Lead High-Performance Trading Systems

TankX; Fatih; Hybrid; TRY 3,854,000 - 5,506,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option

Profit-sharing bonus

Meaningful opportunity to shape the e‑

Job summary

TankX is seeking an Engineering Manager to strengthen both engineering capability and system quality. You will provide technical leadership, coaching, and performance management while guiding delivery and architecture across the team.

You’ll report to our co-founder and collaborate with the Lead Quant Developer and other engineers to ensure reliable, low-latency systems for live trading. The role blends people leadership with deep technical influence and ownership.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing software engineers, including coaching, feedback and performance management.
• Experience owning both people leadership and team execution, including prioritisation, planning, delivery and competing technical priorities.
• Experience helping less experienced engineers develop stronger technical judgement and independence.
• Strong technical foundation in C++.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering team’s delivery effectiveness by understanding the intended outcome, translating priorities into clear technical plans, milestones, ownership and realistic timelines.
• Help engineers move from executing well-defined tasks toward understanding context, identifying risks and proposing their own solutions.
• Help engineers break down difficult problems and unblock complex technical work without becoming the default solution to every problem.
• Set clear expectations for engineers around technical quality, ownership, communication and execution and help the team consistently work toward that standard.
• Coach engineers at different stages of their careers to move beyond task execution: understand the problem and context, form their own view, identify risks, propose solutions and know when to decide independently versus when to involve others.
• Run regular 1:1s, provide timely and direct feedback, and actively manage individual development and performance, reinforce effective behaviours and create space for open two-way feedback.
• Work closely with technical leads and strong individual contributors to turn technical expertise into broader team capability rather than individual dependency.
• Identify capability and seniority needs within the team and contribute actively to hiring the right talent.
• Strengthen knowledge-sharing, onboarding and distribution of technical context to help engineers build context quickly, make informed decisions and take broader ownership across the team.
• Stay close enough to the systems to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions, system design, technical reviews and important engineering decisions, particularly where latency, reliability, correctness, complexity or operational risk matter.
• Establish lightweight, risk-proportionate engineering practices around design and code review, testing, deployment, change management and production readiness, adding processes where it improves reliability and decision quality, not for its own sake.
• Ensure production systems have appropriate observability, monitoring, alerting and operational visibility so failures, degradation and unexpected behaviour can be detected, understood and acted on quickly.
• Raise standards around system design, code quality, testing, observability and production readiness.
• Turn recurring failures or incidents into lasting improvements to systems, tools or engineering practices.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers, engineers and company leadership to connect technical execution with wider trading and company priorities.

Skills

C++

Leadership

People management

Coaching

System design

Debugging

Observability

Architecture decisions

Performance optimization

English

Team execution

Hiring

Job description

TankX is seeking an Engineering Manager to strengthen both engineering capability and system quality. You will provide technical leadership, coaching, and performance management while guiding delivery and architecture across the team.

You’ll report to our co-founder and collaborate with the Lead Quant Developer and other engineers to ensure reliable, low-latency systems for live trading. The role blends people leadership with deep technical influence and ownership.