Engineering Manager Research Engineering
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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About the Role
You own the research engineering roadmap, develop engineers through coaching and performance management, plan hiring and resource allocation, cultivate team health, translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans, coordinate with Engineering, Trading and Quant teams, manage delivery risks and improve team velocity.
Requirements
- Strong people-leadership skills
- Coaching and feedback skills
- Conflict-resolution skills
- Strong project-management skills
- Experience building roadmaps and managing dependencies and risk
- Technical or research background
- Experience leading and managing applied researchers and software engineers
- Experience delivering applied research through a team
- Hiring and talent-development judgment
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders
- Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap, priorities, planning, and work sequencing
- Develop engineers through career planning, coaching, promotions, and performance management
- Lead hiring, headcount planning, and resource allocation
- Manage team culture, morale, productivity, and conflict
- Hold regular one-on-ones and provide timely feedback
- Translate technical and business requirements into delivery plans
- Identify dependencies and risks
- Liaise between Engineering, Trading, and Quant teams
- Drive delivery predictability and manage 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
- Comprehensive benefits
- Flow Academy
- Access to domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house bar and lounge
- Company boat
- In-house gym
- Nutritionist sessions
- Personal trainer sessions
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip
- Global rotations across offices worldwide