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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the planning and people side of an engineering organization, owning roadmaps, priorities, sequencing, career planning, coaching, performance management, hiring, headcount planning, and resource allocation. You will cultivate team health, translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans, coordinate with Engineering, Trading, and Quant teams, manage delivery risks and scope, report progress, improve delivery processes, and align team work with organizational goals.
Requirements
- Strong project management skills
- Technical background sufficient to engage in technical discussions
- Experience leading, growing, and managing software engineers
- Track record of delivering software through a team
- Strong people-leadership skills
- Coaching and feedback experience
- Conflict resolution experience
- Hiring and talent development judgment
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders including Trading and Quant teams
- Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap, priorities, planning, and sequencing of work
- Develop engineers through career planning, promotions, coaching, and continuous performance management
- Lead hiring, headcount planning, and resource allocation
- Manage team culture, morale, productivity, and conflict
- Hold regular one-on-ones and provide clear, timely feedback
- Invest in team building
- Translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans
- Identify dependencies and risks
- Liaise between Engineering, Trading, and Quant teams to design and roll out products
- Track progress against plans
- Manage risk and scope trade-offs
- Report status to stakeholders
- Improve delivery processes and team velocity
- Align team work with organizational goals and timelines
Benefits
- Annual discretionary profit share
- Flow Academy
- Domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch
- Coffee
- Stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house bar and lounge
- Arcade
- Table tennis
- Billiards
- Game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym
- Nutritionist sessions
- Personal trainer sessions
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip
- Company events
- Global rotations
