Director of Software Engineering

Director of Trading Technology

Location: Singapore

Employment Type: Full-time, onsite

Relocation: Required for candidates currently based outside Singapore

The Opportunity

A rapidly growing proprietary trading firm is seeking a Head of Trading Technology to lead the development of its next-generation, low-latency trading infrastructure.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position with ownership of the architecture and delivery of a greenfield trading platform supporting both traditional and digital-asset markets. The platform will cover the full trading lifecycle, including market-data ingestion, exchange connectivity, pricing, order and execution management, smart routing, risk, and infrastructure.

The successful candidate will lead and mentor a team of software engineers, platform engineers, and architects while remaining actively involved in system design, critical code reviews, performance optimization, and complex technical problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform.
• Lead the greenfield development of market-data, connectivity, execution, pricing, routing, and risk systems.
• Establish the technical strategy and make key architectural decisions across the trading stack.
• Remain hands-on by writing and reviewing critical code and resolving complex latency, throughput, and performance issues.
• Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization.
• Set development priorities, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure the delivery of production-quality systems.
• Drive continuous improvements in latency, throughput, reliability, scalability, and operational resilience.
• Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers, infrastructure engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Introduce AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering workflows, tooling, testing, and delivery.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards covering testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, security, and production support.
• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risks.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of software-engineering experience, including five or more years in a technical leadership position.
• Leadership experience within a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, market maker, investment bank, exchange, or similarly demanding trading environment.
• Proven hands-on experience building or optimizing high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
• Strong programming ability in C++, Rust, or another high-performance systems language.
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency, distributed computing, networking, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of the complete electronic-trading lifecycle, including market data, pricing, order management, execution, risk, positions, and clearing.
• Demonstrated success managing and mentoring engineers in a fast-paced, production-critical environment.
• Ability to establish priorities, manage timelines, and deliver complex technical initiatives.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Willingness to remain technically engaged while leading the broader engineering function.

Preferred Experience

• Background within high-frequency trading, electronic market making, systematic trading, or quantitative finance.
• Experience building trading infrastructure across equities, futures, commodities, derivatives, digital assets, or other high-frequency markets.
• Experience developing systems that connect to multiple exchanges, venues, or liquidity sources.
• Knowledge of real-time market-data processing, smart order routing, automated execution, pricing, and risk.
• Exposure to on-chain trading, decentralized finance, or tokenized real-world assets is helpful but not required.
• Experience creating new trading platforms or replacing legacy trading infrastructure.

Location Requirement

This position is based permanently onsite in Singapore. Candidates currently based elsewhere must be prepared to relocate.

Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available.