Tech Lead Revenue
OpenFX helps financial institutions move money across borders with real-time settlement and transparent pricing through its FX infrastructure platform.
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About OpenFX
OpenFX helps financial institutions process cross-border payments through its real-time settlement network that bypasses traditional correspondent banking. Users can execute FX transactions, settle payments within 60 minutes, and access transparent pricing across currency pairs. OpenFX enables 24/7 money movement for remittance companies, neobanks, and payment providers seeking faster, cheaper international transfers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide hands-on technical leadership for risk management, smart hedging, and position and PnL systems. You will make design decisions, write and review code, mentor engineers, maintain the quality bar, manage technical debt, coordinate roadmap execution, and lead production incident response.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of production backend systems experience
- Experience serving as technical lead for a team or workstream
- Trading, exchange, or brokerage experience on a live trade, order, or risk path
- Technical depth across owned systems
- System design skills
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming and low-level design patterns
- Experience with observability, debugging, performance tuning, and incident response
- Ability to lead technical decisions through influence
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction for exposure, position keeping, hedge decisions, venue routing, market making, and PnL calculation
- Lead design discussions and drive technical decisions to resolution
- Mentor engineers through design collaboration, pairing, and feedback
- Review work for technical quality and coherence
- Own the quality bar for tested, observable, reconcilable, and operationally safe systems
- Maintain and reduce technical debt with an agreed resolution plan
- Surface technical risks and options early
- Drive technical execution with Product, Operations, treasury, and finance
- Lead incident response and turn post-mortems into systemic fixes
Benefits
- Equity