Engineering Manager
Posted
Summary
Leads a team of ~7 engineers building the real-time, high-throughput trading systems (matching, order management, pricing, settlement) behind ProphetX's CFTC-regulated sports prediction market exchange. A hands-on post-Series A leadership role spanning delivery, architecture, hiring, and coaching, with a Go/Java/C++/Python, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes stack.
Role Overview
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of ~7 engineers building the real-time, high-throughput systems at the core of our exchange. You’ll be accountable for delivery, technical quality, and the growth of your team, working closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, and business leaders. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-moving, post-Series A environment. You’ll stay close enough to the technology to make sound architectural calls, while spending most of your time building a high-performing team and removing obstacles.
What You’ll Own
Delivery and Technical Leadership
- 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.
People and Team Development
- 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.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- 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.
Process and Execution
- 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.
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
Nice to Have
- 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
Compensation & Ownership
- Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
- Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
- A clear connection between impact and reward
Health & Wellbeing
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
- A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings
Remote & Flexible Work
- Fully remote within the U.S.
- Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work
The Role
- 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