Lead Software Engineer

Understanding Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Russian-speaking Lead Engineer for a fully remote, globally distributed proprietary trading environment. The role focuses on leading greenfield development within the trading platform and driving architecture decisions with broad ownership across trading and risk domains.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software engineering, deep experience in systematic quantitative trading, and fluency in Russian.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Extensive experience in systematic quantitative trading.
• Understanding of HFT or performance-sensitive trading systems.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Expertise with low-level programming language.
• Fluent in Russian.

Responsibilities

• Own greenfield developments within the trading platform.
• Build new parts of trading or risk architecture.
• Lead expansion into new markets or exchanges.
• Design systems and integrations from the ground up.
• Work directly with trading and business stakeholders.
• Own technical and commercial decisions end-to-end.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Performance-sensitive systems

HFT exposure

Low-level programming

Independence & ownership

Russian language

Job description

Russian-Speaking Lead Engineer | Quantitative Trading | Fully Remote

I’m working with a highly profitable proprietary trading firm looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of greenfield developments within its trading platform.

The role

Depending on where you can create the most value, you could be:

• Building a new part of the trading or risk architecture
• Taking the firm into a new market or exchange
• Designing systems and integrations from the ground up
• Working directly with trading and business stakeholders
• Owning technical and commercial decisions end-to-end

What they’re looking for

• 6+ years min. in software engineering
• Strong experience inside systematic quantitative trading
• Understanding of HFT or performance-sensitive trading systems
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Expertise with low-level programming language
• A high degree of independence and ownership
• Fluent in Russian
• Bonus comp guarantee available in year one
• Fully remote internationally
• Significant autonomy over what and how you build
• Exposure to both HFT and MFT strategies across multiple markets
• An engineering environment already pushing heavily into agentic development