Product Engineering Team Lead
Wintermute helps you trade digital assets by providing algorithmic liquidity across exchanges and OTC markets.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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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
You own the technical architecture for trading products, client-facing portals, and internal applications. You 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
- Node.js
- Backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
- End-to-end system architecture
- APIs
- Microservices
- Event-driven architecture
- WebSockets
- Message queues
- Databases
- CI/CD
- Cloud platforms
- CDN
- Monitoring and observability
- Deployment strategies
- OWASP
- Authentication and authorization
- Secure data handling
- 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
