Trading Technology Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Ethena Labs, a rapidly growing crypto-native financial product company, as their Head of Trading Technology. This leadership role involves owning the entire trading technology stack, encompassing strategy, development, and maintenance of the trading platform powering their flagship products, USDe & sUSDe. You will lead a small team of engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and directly report to the CTO. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in trading systems development, strong software engineering fundamentals, and a deep understanding of financial markets, particularly within the crypto space. The role demands a hands-on approach, mentoring junior engineers, and fostering a culture of high-quality engineering. Ethena Labs offers a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• Engineering Leadership in Trading Technology: Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within trading tech environments such as Investment Banks, Trading firms, Exchanges, or Market Makers
• Extensive Experience in Trading Systems Development: Track record of building and supporting trading infrastructure from the ground up, including market data feed handlers, algo engines, backtesting frameworks, and execution platforms
• Strong Software Engineering Fundamentals: Expertise in modern development practices (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID), how to write modular, clean, code, and resilient system design
• Deep Understanding of Financial Markets: Strong knowledge of trading mechanisms, security protocols, and infrastructure management across multiple venues
• Experience with Crypto Trading Venues and Derivatives: Hands-on experience working with centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and trading instruments such as perpetual swaps and deliverable futures
• Multi-Venue Trading Experience: Understanding of order routing, trade reconciliation, and execution quality optimization across multiple trading venues
• High-Performance System Design: Expertise in optimizing for system performance, ensuring low-latency execution, high throughput, and execution quality
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to break down complex challenges into actionable solutions and make strategic technical decisions
• Passion for Testing and Automation: Strong advocate for TDD, BDD, and test automation with hands-on experience in unit, integration, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing

Responsibilities

• Build and Own a Best-in-Class Trading System: Design and implement a robust trading platform that ensures efficient execution of large trade sizes with minimal slippage
• Develop Market Data and Execution Capabilities: Build high-performance market data pipelines and ensure seamless integration with multiple trading venues (REST/WS, FIX, and other protocols)
• Drive New Product and Feature Development: Collaborate with quant and trading teams to develop and implement new trading strategies and execution logic
• Foster Software Excellence: Apply modern software development best practices, such as TDD, BDD, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and SOLID principles
• Optimize for Performance and Resilience: Design fault-tolerant architectures with failover mechanisms to ensure high availability and reliability
• Mentor and Grow the Team: Lead and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of high-quality engineering and technical excellence

Benefits

• Work alongside a passionate and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-friendly work environment with opportunities for growth and learning