Group Engineering Manager for JustMarkets

JustMarkets Tech is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale engineering teams building a high-performance trading platform. The role focuses on people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across hybrid infrastructure, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.

• Lead and manage cross-functional engineering teams up to 30 engineers (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for teams
• Partner with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
• Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management
• Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Identify and reduce technical debt while maintaining delivery velocity
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented mindset

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role
• 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
• Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
• Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms
• Experience scaling teams and systems
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools