VP of Engineering, Trade

🕒 July 31

🌽 Illinois, New York – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

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Zero Hash

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51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💰 $105M Series D on 2022-01

Fintech • Crypto • Web 3

Zero Hash is a company that provides infrastructure solutions for the integration of crypto and stablecoin products into various platforms. By offering API-first technology and turnkey regulatory infrastructure, Zero Hash enables businesses, especially in the fintech, payments, and banking sectors, to develop and launch crypto and stablecoin products efficiently and compliantly. Their services cover a wide range of applications including investments, trading platforms, payment gateways, and brands, focusing on simplifying the process of managing custody, liquidity, and settlement for their clients. Zero Hash supports over 60 digital assets and is operational in over 200 countries.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for zerohash's trade organization, and align it with company strategy and the roadmaps of the transact, tokenize, and core teams • Build, lead, and scale a multi-team organization — hiring, developing, and retaining engineering managers, principal/staff engineers, and individual contributors as the team grows • Act as the executive owner of trading systems reliability, performance, and risk, including matching engines, order/execution infrastructure, market data, and FIX connectivity • Partner directly with the CTO, SVP Engineering, product leadership, and zerohash's other VP(s) of Engineering to set org-wide technical standards, priorities, and engineering culture • Represent engineering to company leadership and key partners/clients on matters related to trading technology • Recruit, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior technical talent; build durable career paths for the team • Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to ensure trading systems meet the regulatory requirements relevant to zerohash's markets • Drive build-vs-buy, technical debt, and architecture trade-off decisions at an organizational level • Stay technically credible, engage deeply enough in system design and code-level decisions to earn the trust of senior engineers and maintain competency with the codebase and system architecture

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software design and development experience, with deep hands-on background in backend and distributed systems • 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and senior/principal/staff engineers • Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations (30+ engineers) at a high-growth fintech, trading firm, exchange, or crypto company • Experience owning multi-team technical strategy and roadmap at a VP, Director, or Head of Engineering level • Prior exposure to fast-growth startups and comfort operating with ambiguity • Exceptional executive communication skills • Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Legal • Cloud computing experience, with AWS highly desirable • BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience • Strong bias toward serving your team and stakeholders, with a growth mindset • Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle, and common risks associated with electronic trading • Familiarity with regulatory requirements relevant to trading systems (e.g., MiFID II, Reg NMS) • 10+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems (e.g., central limit order books (CLOBs), matching engines, market data feeds) • Proven experience with FIX Protocol (4.2 and higher) and implementing highly reliable FIX Gateway solutions • Expertise in highly concurrent, multi-threaded, low-garbage/zero-garbage code in languages commonly used in finance such as C++, Rust, or Go • Demonstrable experience optimizing system performance to achieve single-digit microsecond latency • Strong background building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as trade booking systems, high-throughput accounting/ledger systems, and real-time credit/risk limit systems • Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Kafka, ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: zerohash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only) • Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only) • Chance to earn equity • Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months) • WeWork All Access Membership • WFH Yearly Stipend • L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)