Engineering Manager - Tradeify Platform

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Tradeify Platform based in United States. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role responsible for a core platform that supports a live, revenue-generating trading business. You will lead the team responsible for backend services, infrastructure, trading accounts, evaluations, third-party integrations, and APIs used by multiple product teams. The role combines people leadership with active technical involvement in architecture, code reviews, delivery, reliability, and production operations. You’ll work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to scale the platform while maintaining speed, resilience, and service quality. Because the platform is already business-critical, you’ll balance new development with technical debt, operational stability, and evolving customer needs. This is an opportunity to shape both the engineering team and the technical foundations supporting a growing global fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop a team of backend and full-stack engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, establish clear goals, provide direct and constructive feedback, and support ongoing career development.
• Own team performance management, including calibration and challenging performance conversations when necessary.
• Partner with Product to scope, prioritize, and plan platform initiatives, integrations, and technical improvements.
• Guide architecture decisions for scalable APIs, backend services, and microservices supporting integrations with third-party trading platforms.
• Remain hands-on with engineering work by reviewing pull requests, contributing to design discussions, evaluating technical approaches, and helping engineers resolve complex problems.
• Own delivery processes, including sprint planning, progress tracking, prioritization, and maintaining realistic commitments within a live production environment.
• Drive improvements in code quality, automated testing, development practices, and CI/CD processes.
• Own production reliability and observability for business-critical systems and lead incident response when issues occur.
• Identify and manage technical debt while balancing reliability, scalability, and delivery of new capabilities.
• Contribute to broader engineering standards, hiring practices, onboarding processes, and operational practices across the organization.