Product Engineering Team Lead

Wintermute helps you trade digital assets by providing algorithmic liquidity across exchanges and OTC markets.

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4AG, United Kingdom
About Wintermute

Wintermute helps traders and institutions access digital asset liquidity through algorithmic market making and OTC services. Users can trade various tokens, access derivatives markets, and execute large orders without market impact. Wintermute provides deep liquidity across centralized and decentralized platforms.

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About the Role

Own the technical architecture for trading products, client-facing portals, and internal applications. Lead and mentor engineers, set technical direction, build high-volume real-time systems, oversee frontend experiences, and establish engineering processes while remaining hands-on with the codebase.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • At least 3 years in a technical leadership role
  • Architecture experience with complex data-intensive applications
  • Experience building and scaling real-time, high-data-volume systems
  • TypeScript, React, and Node.js
  • Backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • End-to-end system architecture
  • APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, WebSockets, message queues, and databases
  • CI/CD, cloud platforms, CDN, monitoring and observability, and deployment strategies
  • OWASP, authentication and authorization patterns, and secure data handling
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers

Responsibilities

  • Define and own technical architecture for trading products, portals, and applications
  • Lead and mentor a full-stack engineering team
  • Set standards for code quality and engineering practices
  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Architect high-volume real-time systems
  • Oversee frontend experiences across the customer lifecycle
  • Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment and delivery
  • Establish sprint planning, incident response, and deployment processes
  • Stay hands-on with the codebase

Benefits

  • UK visa sponsorship
  • Relocation assistance to London