VP of Engineering Trade
Zero Hash provides B2B infrastructure enabling any platform to integrate digital assets through APIs for buying, selling, custody, and payment services.
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About zerohash
Zero Hash helps businesses add cryptocurrency services by providing API infrastructure that handles regulatory and technical complexity. With it, companies can offer trading, custody, payment processing, and rewards programs without building infrastructure from scratch. Zero Hash serves neo-banks, fintech platforms, and investment services seeking to integrate crypto capabilities.
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About the Role
You will lead the Trade engineering organization, own its technical vision and roadmap, scale a multi-team engineering function, oversee trading-system reliability and risk, partner with executives and control functions, and remain engaged in system design and code-level decisions.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software design and development experience
- Deep hands-on backend and distributed systems experience
- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Experience managing managers and senior, principal, or staff engineers
- Experience scaling engineering organizations of 30+ engineers
- Experience in fintech, trading, exchange, or crypto companies
- VP, Director, or Head of Engineering experience owning technical strategy and roadmap
- Cloud computing experience, preferably AWS
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of market structure, order types, and trade lifecycle
- Knowledge of electronic trading risks
- 10+ years developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance low-latency trading systems
- FIX Protocol 4.2 or higher experience
- C++, Rust, or Go expertise
- Experience achieving single-digit microsecond latency
- Trade booking, accounting or ledger, and credit or risk limit systems experience
- Distributed systems and messaging framework experience
- Strong executive communication and cross-functional partnership skills
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the Trade organization
- Align Trade technology with company strategy and other organizational roadmaps
- Build, lead, and scale a multi-team engineering organization
- Own trading-system reliability, performance, and risk
- Set organization-wide technical standards and priorities
- Represent engineering to leadership, partners, and clients
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior technical talent
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Legal on regulatory requirements
- Make build-versus-buy, technical debt, and architecture trade-off decisions
- Engage in system design and code-level decisions
Benefits
- Healthcare insurance with approximately 100% of employee premiums covered and partial spouse/children coverage for U.S. employees
- Vision insurance for U.S. employees
- Dental insurance for U.S. employees
- Equity opportunity
- Maternity leave after 6 months
- Paternity leave after 6 months
- WeWork All Access Membership
- WFH yearly stipend
- L&D yearly stipend after 6 months
