Remote Lead Engineering Manager - Trading Platform Scale

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 vacation days per year

10 sick leave days per year

Public holidays as per company list

Medical insurance

Remote work option

Professional education budget

Language learning budget

Wellness budget

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking an experienced Lead Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams within a focused area building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role, with experience managing Engineering Managers or Team Leads.
• Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains.
• Strong understanding of backend systems, ideally with hands-on experience in Ruby.
• Experience operating systems on AWS (EC2, networking, security, monitoring).
• Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple engineering teams (25+ engineers).
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes across your engineering area.
• Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution.
• Drive engineering strategy and cross-team alignment across the area.
• Coordinate architectural decisions and their implementation across teams.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems.
• Own the area roadmap and resource allocation across teams.
• Identify and address systemic technical and organizational risks and ensure the long-term scalability and health of the engineering area.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and support the development of engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented.

Skills

Ruby

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Backend systems

Leadership

EC2

Monitoring

Security

Tools

EC2

Monitoring

Security

Job description

Openkrill is seeking an experienced Lead Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams within a focused area building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.