Engineering Manager
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead people and manage delivery for a software engineering team. You will own roadmap planning, priorities, sequencing, hiring, career development, performance management, culture, and resource allocation. You will translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans, manage dependencies and risks, track progress, and communicate status to stakeholders. You will work with Tech Leads and Staff Engineers on technical direction and act as a liaison with Engineering, Trading, and Quant teams to roll out new products.
Requirements
- Project management experience, including building roadmaps, sequencing work, managing dependencies and risk, and driving delivery predictability.
- Technical background sufficient to engage credibly in technical discussions.
- Experience leading, growing, and managing the performance of software engineers.
- Track record of delivering software through a team while balancing scope, quality, and timelines.
- People leadership skills including coaching, feedback, conflict resolution, and team development.
- Judgment in hiring and developing talent.
- Communication skills with technical and non-technical cross-functional stakeholders, including Trading and Quant.
- Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.
Responsibilities
- Own roadmap priorities, planning, and work sequencing in line with company goals.
- Manage career planning, promotions, coaching, and continuous performance management for engineers.
- Lead hiring, headcount planning, and resource allocation.
- Manage team culture, morale, productivity, and conflict resolution.
- Hold regular one-on-ones, provide timely feedback, and invest in team building.
- Translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans, identifying dependencies and risks.
- Liaise between Engineering, Trading, and Quant teams to design and roll out new products.
- Track progress against plans, manage risks and scope trade-offs, and report status to stakeholders.
- Improve delivery processes and team velocity.
- Align team work with organisational goals and delivery timelines in collaboration with Tech Leads and Staff Engineers.
Benefits
- Flow Academy
- Opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch
- Coffee
- Stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym
- Sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip
- Company events
- Global rotations across worldwide offices
- Annual discretionary profit share
- Comprehensive benefits
