Engineering Manager - Arcnine

About this role

Lead the engineering team building Arcnine, a new real-time trading platform, from its current development phase through launch and early iteration. This hands-on role combines team leadership, architecture guidance, delivery ownership, and production reliability.

About the company

Tradeify is a proprietary trading firm that funds traders with simulated capital and payouts across futures and crypto markets.

The team

Arcnine, Tradeify's trading platform team, reporting to the CTO.

Stack

What you'll do

• Hire, onboard, and develop full-stack and backend engineers.
• Set team goals, provide feedback, and manage performance.
• Partner with Product and Design to define and prioritize the roadmap.
• Guide architecture for the real-time trading interface and execution systems.
• Stay hands-on through code reviews, design docs, and technical unblocking.
• Own delivery planning and scope adjustments in an ambiguous environment.
• Establish testing, code quality, and CI/CD standards.
• Own production reliability, observability, and incident response.

What we're looking for

• Experience managing or leading engineers, alongside hands-on engineering experience.
• Full-stack or backend background with relevant frontend or backend technologies.
• Experience with REST APIs and WebSocket-based real-time services.
• Familiarity with relational or in-memory data stores.
• Experience operating production systems on a major cloud platform with Docker or Kubernetes.
• Ability to build 0-to-1 products in an ambiguous environment.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Fintech, trading, or crypto experience.
• Real-time systems or event-driven architecture experience.
• Familiarity with TimescaleDB or ClickHouse.
• Engineering management experience on a pre-launch or early-stage product.
• Experience managing teams that use AI-assisted development tools.