Vp Of Engineering, Institutional Trading (Fintech)

TL;DR

VP of Engineering, Institutional Trading (Fintech): Leading the engineering strategy for expanding hirify.global’s API-driven trading and brokerage platform into sophisticated institutional use cases. Focus on architectural decisions across trading APIs, execution systems, real-time risk, margin engines, and analytics platforms.

Location: Remote - Global (Eastern Time Zone)

Salary: New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500, Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Company

hirify.global is building the next-generation market infrastructure for active and institutional traders.

What you will do

• Define and own the engineering roadmap for hirify.global’s institutional trading platform.
• Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers.
• Partner with the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy.
• Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives.
• Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, execution systems, real-time risk, margin engines, and analytics platforms.
• Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency-sensitive systems.

Requirements

• A VP-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms.
• Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams focused on complex, high-impact systems.
• Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics.
• Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments.
• Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes.
• Exposure to portfolio margin or cross-margining methodologies.
• Background supporting hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, or other institutional clients.
• Experience contributing to architecture standards or externally visible technical initiatives.
• Prior experience scaling trading platforms during periods of rapid growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options.
• Health Benefits.
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500.
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.