Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York, New York, Remote - USA

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Own

• Own predictable, high-quality delivery of your team’s roadmap, from planning and estimation through launch and post-launch operations.
• Partner with tech leads on architecture and design decisions for matching, order management, pricing, settlement, and real-time data systems.
• Uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, scalability, security, and observability.
• Own production health. Drive incident response, postmortems, and follow-through on reliability and latency improvements.
• Balance feature velocity, technical debt, and platform investment, and make the tradeoffs visible to stakeholders.

• Directly manage ~7 engineers, including IC1 through IC4 levels, with regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance reviews.
• Set clear expectations by level and coach engineers toward promotion and career goals.
• Lead hiring: define roles, run interview loops, and close strong candidates.
• Identify skill gaps and create mentorship and training opportunities.
• Build an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative team culture, including across remote, offshore, and globally distributed teammates.

• Partner with Product to turn business goals into clear scope, requirements, and timelines.
• Work with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to build products that meet CFTC regulatory and operational requirements.
• Communicate progress, risks, and milestones to executives and stakeholders, with early escalation of risks and no surprises.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads on cross-team initiatives, shared platforms, and dependencies.

• Run lightweight, effective agile practices (sprint planning, check-ins, retros) and improve them continuously.
• Define and track team health and delivery metrics, such as cycle time, deployment frequency, and incident and change failure rates.
• Drive improvements in tooling, CI/CD, and developer productivity.
• Make build-versus-buy and prioritization decisions with clear reasoning and documentation.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineering teams (or leading teams as a tech lead with strong management experience)
• Strong technical background building scalable, low-latency, real-time systems in production, ideally in fintech, trading or exchange, crypto, or other high-throughput transactional environments
• Hands-on familiarity with modern backend stacks (Go, Java, C++, or Python), microservices, event-driven architecture (Kafka), and REST and WebSocket APIs
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD
• Working knowledge of observability and incident management (New Relic, Datadog, Kibana, or similar)
• Proven record of delivering complex projects on time while managing scope, risk, and stakeholder expectations
• Demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and retain engineers, and to give direct, constructive feedback
• Experience managing distributed or offshore teams
• Strong communicator who can explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity, with a strong sense of ownership

• Experience in prediction markets, sports betting, or regulated exchanges (CFTC or similar)
• Familiarity with risk, fraud, KYC/AML, or settlement systems
• Experience scaling a team through hiring and growth in a startup environment

Why Join Us!

• Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
• Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
• A clear connection between impact and reward

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
• A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings

• Fully remote within the U.S.
• Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work

• Lead a team of ~7 engineers building the real-time, high-throughput systems at the core of America’s first sports-native, CFTC-regulated prediction market
• Take on a hands-on leadership role with real influence over architecture, hiring, and how a high-performing engineering team is built from the ground up
• Help scale a live, regulated exchange as prediction markets grow into America’s next great asset class