[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Zero Hash

Role Description

Zero Hash is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for digital assets and blockchain products to lead the development of our trading products. We're looking for a true technologist with a love of programming and a drive for technical excellence.

• Work with a team of talented engineers and product managers to deliver products and features that support Zero Hash's business
• Partner closely with Zero Hash product and program managers to ensure roadmap is well understood and team is able to plan and execute on expected outcomes
• Work with the team on technical planning to ensure that product requirements are captured in the technical solution
• Partner with other Engineering Managers to drive the technical roadmap forward
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Zero Hash
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers
• Help engineers establish career development plans
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Zero Hash's engineering management team
• Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders to build a clear vision for your team
• Oversee the success of your team's projects and achieve quantifiable results
• Introduce industry leading engineering patterns and practices that give us the confidence to do bold things
• Make consistent development contributions so as to maintain competency with our codebase and system architecture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with significant focus on building and maintaining robust APIs and SDKs for B2B integration
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing staff and principal level engineers
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience
• You've managed teams that have delivered great products
• Golang expertise, familiar with Go's idiomatic approach and niches
• Familiarity with TypeScript and React for frontend services
• Understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, including major protocols (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum), on-chain transaction flows, and common crypto security practices (key management, wallet types)

Requirements

• Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle, and common risks associated with electronic trading
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements relevant to trading systems (e.g., MiFID II, Reg NMS)
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems (e.g., central limit order books (CLOBs), matching engines, market data feeds)
• Proven experience with FIX Protocol (4.2 and higher) and implementing highly reliable FIX Gateway solutions
• Expertise in writing highly concurrent, multi-threaded, and low-garbage/zero-garbage code in languages commonly used in finance like Java (with deep JVM knowledge), C++, or Go
• Demonstrable experience optimizing system performance to achieve single-digit microsecond latency consistently
• Strong background in building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as trade booking systems, high-throughput accounting/ledger systems, and real-time credit/risk limit systems
• Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Kafka, ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• Mental Health and Wellness Program
• Equity Ownership and Early Exercise
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Educational budget of USD 1000
• WFH stipend of USD 500
• WeWork All Access Membership
• Visa Sponsorship
• 401k

Company Description

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.

• Clients include Stripe, MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, tastytrade, Drivewealth
• Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, tastytrade

The Zero Hash Culture

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with
• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust