At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to develop innovative trade surveillance solutions and ensure platform reliability.
- Company: Join TradingHub, a fast-growing fintech company focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, hybrid working, private medical insurance, and generous annual leave.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of accountability, ambition, partnership, and trust.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the financial sector while leading a high-performing engineering team.
- Qualifications: Significant experience in software delivery, especially in fintech or big tech.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Founded in 2010, TradingHub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. Developed by market professionals, our solutions use sophisticated modelling techniques to detect single and cross-product market manipulation. With a team of over 150 experts worldwide, TradingHub combines global reach with deep markets expertise to help our customers mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risk.
We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our Engineering Core department, responsible for the platforms that power TradingHub’s market-leading trade surveillance solutions. The function encompasses three principal teams: Infrastructure, Calculation and Web, covering our cloud platform, big-data processing framework and user-facing applications.
The successful candidate will provide strategic and technical leadership across these teams, driving engineering excellence, platform reliability and innovation while building a high‑performing organisation aligned to TradingHub’s business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the core services and platform architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and a cloud‑native, future‑proof design
- Set architectural standards and drive platform consistency to reduce complexity, duplication, and operational risk
- Champion an AI‑first approach, identifying and embedding agentic AI workflows to enhance engineering productivity and capability
- Translate strategic business objectives into scalable, reliable engineering outcomes, owning end‑to‑end delivery against critical timelines
- Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to align platform direction, data capabilities and system reliability
- Own the reliability and performance of core systems, including uptime, latency, SLOs/SLAs and continuous improvement through incident management
- Ensure security, data protection, and regulatory compliance, while leading and developing a high‑performing, accountable engineering organisation
Requirements
- Significant experience of commercial software delivery, preferably within financial technology or 'big tech'
- Proven track record of owning and successfully delivering substantial transformation projects on time and with precision
- Proven success in balancing competing short/medium and strategic priorities to ensure key strategic deliverables are met
- Confident leading high‑performing software development teams, especially through changes to working practices
- AWS (or other public cloud provider) experience preferable
- Experience of AI‑first SDLC working practices
Benefits
Life at TradingHub is a rewarding journey within a fast‑growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of technology and global markets, we’re able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success. Rooted in everything that we do are our core values: Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These values provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture that empowers you to grow, contribute, and become your best self.
Employee Benefits
- Annual discretionary performance bonus (permanent employees only)
- Hybrid working policy
- Office lunches twice a week
- Private medical insurance + dental cover
- Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave)
- 25 days annual leave
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