VP of Engineering, Trade

About the role

zero-hash is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead its Trade organization, responsible for the trading technology that powers execution, liquidity, and market access across the platform. The role requires deep hands‑on trading systems expertise and the ability to represent trade engineering at the executive level.

Key responsibilities

• Define technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the trade organization, aligning with company strategy and other product teams.
• Build, lead, and scale a multi‑team engineering group, hiring and developing managers, principal engineers, and individual contributors.
• Own reliability, performance, and risk of trading systems including matching engines, order/execution infrastructure, market data, and FIX connectivity.
• Partner with CTO, SVP Engineering, product leadership, and other VPs to set technical standards and culture.
• Represent engineering to leadership, partners, and clients on trading technology matters.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to meet regulatory requirements.

Required profile

• 15+ years of software design and development experience with backend and distributed systems.
• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, managing managers and senior engineers.
• Proven track record scaling engineering organizations of 30+ engineers in high‑growth fintech, trading, exchange, or crypto environments.
• Experience owning multi‑team technical strategy at VP or Director level.
• Strong executive communication and cross‑functional partnership skills.

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of market structure, order types, trade lifecycle, and electronic trading risks.
• Hands‑on experience with FIX Protocol (4.2+) and FIX gateway implementations.
• Expertise in low‑latency, high‑throughput development using C++, Rust, or Go.
• Experience optimizing systems for single‑digit microsecond latency.
• Background building mission‑critical backend systems such as trade booking, ledger, and risk limit platforms.
• Familiarity with distributed messaging frameworks like Aeron, Kafka, or ZeroMQ.
• Cloud computing experience, preferably AWS.

What we offer

• Healthcare, vision, and dental insurance with near‑full premium coverage (U.S. only).
• Equity participation.
• Maternity & paternity leave after six months.
• WeWork All Access membership.
• Work‑from‑home stipend and learning & development stipend after six months.