At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to enhance our market-leading trade surveillance solutions.
- Company: Join TradingHub, a pioneer in intelligent trade surveillance software.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work, private medical insurance, and generous leave policies.
- Other info: Enjoy a vibrant workplace culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Drive innovation and make a real impact in the financial technology sector.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in software delivery and leading high-performing teams.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Founded in 2010, TradingHub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. 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. This includes 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.
- 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.
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. Confident leading high-performing software development teams, especially through changes to working practices. AWS (or other public cloud provider) experience preferable.
These values provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture that empowers you to grow, contribute, and become your best self.
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.
