Manager - IT Software Engineering

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you'll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Position Purpose: We are looking for an Engineering Manager with experience building scalable web-based trading platforms. The role will encompass architecture and development across all tiers of the application stack.

You will be part of a talented engineer team that work on low-latency mission-critical trading applications. Roles and responsibilities include application architecture and development across full software development lifecycle, collaborating with like-minded engineers. Managing and technically leading team of highly skilled software engineers, forging relationships with key stakeholders across diverse user base.

Primary Duties will include:

• Lead and mentor team(s) of skilled software engineers, providing architectural and technical guidance
• Own and evolve the architecture roadmap, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Drive development across all phases of the software lifecycle using Agile methodologies
• Ensure design and implementation align with business and technical specifications
• Oversee release planning and delivery of software components
• Champion continuous improvement by evaluating emerging technologies and presenting recommendations
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals
• Foster a culture of excellence, ownership, and innovation within the team

To land this role you will need:

• Minimum 7 years' experience in web-based development
• Proven experience building and leading technical teams, providing direction and guidance, working with global teams
• Deliver end-to-end technical projects, coordinating multiple delivery teams across a range of disciplines and geographical locations, working in an Agile manner
• Strong knowledge with JavaScript and Typescript, asynchronous programming, closures, types, ES6
• HTML/CSS experience, covering layout, cross browser compatibility, accessibility
• Knowledge with React framework, lazy loading, error capturing, concurrent mode, code splitting, patterns for code reuse, state management libraries, routing architecture
• Performance improvement on various phases of development, build, deployment runtime, edge cache, cache control header, enabling gzip, transport on h2, rendering optimisations
• Ideally experience developing event-based microservices using Java/Spring (ideal) or C#/.Net Core

What makes you stand out:  

• Experience with TDD/BDD, testing framework (Jest/React-testing-library/JUnit)
• Some experience developing distributed systems using Microservice architecture (event-based)
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)
• Exposure with distributed messaging / streaming platforms (Apache Kafka ideal)
• Experience with Relational and No-SQL databases

Education: 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Environment:

• Hybrid (4 days in office per week)