Lead Engineering Manager

We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams within a specific area building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment. Responsibilities - Lead and manage multiple engineering teams (25+ engineers) - Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes across your engineering area - Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution - Drive engineering strategy and cross-team alignment across the area - Coordinate architectural decisions and their implementation across teams - Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems - Own the area roadmap and resource allocation across teams - Identify and address systemic technical and organizational risks and ensure the long-term scalability and health of the engineering area - Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and support the development of engineering teams - Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented Requirements - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience - 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role, with experience managing Engineering Managers or Team Leads - Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains - Strong understanding of backend systems, ideally with hands-on experience in Ruby - Experience operating systems on AWS (EC2, networking, security, monitoring) - Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments - Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies - Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring - Advanced Ukrainian and Upper-Intermediate English Will be a plus - Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments - Hands-on experience in Ruby - Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems - Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms - Experience scaling teams and systems - Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools We offer - 20 paid vacation days per year - 10 paid sick leave days per year - Public holidays as per the company's approved Public holiday list - Medical insurance - Opportunity to work remotely - Professional education budget - Language learning budget - Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)