Engineering Manager - Trading Platforms

The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.

We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 550+ team currently across 11 locations and 9 time zones.

The Role

The Engineering Manager leads multiple cross-functional engineering teams responsible for the development, performance and ongoing operation of Pepperstone’s core trading platform, including the Order Management System (OMS), trading integrations and platform services. This role is accountable for translating the Trading Platform vision and roadmap into high-quality engineering outcomes, while ensuring the platform is fast, stable, scalable and secure. The Engineering Manager owns platform performance, reliability, and delivery excellence, and is responsible for building high-performing technical teams operating under a build-and-run model executing high-quality, low latency, scalable, secure trading capabilities at pace. They work closely with Product, SRE, Cloud, Security, Data and Commerical teams to ensure the trading platform consistently delivers high-quality client and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop cross-functional engineering teams across OMS, integrations and trading platform services, including engineers, QA and technical leads, fostering a high-performance, accountable and collaborative culture
• Own end-to-end platform performance, including order execution latency, throughput, concurrency handling and market data delivery, ensuring systems meet strict performance and reliability targets
• Drive platform stability and operational excellence, reducing incident frequency and severity, improving mean time to recovery, and embedding strong incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement practices
• Translate trading platform strategy and roadmap into actionable engineering deliverables, ensuring clear prioritisation, alignment and execution across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Oversee the design, development, testing and deployment of platform changes, ensuring all releases meet production readiness standards, including performance, security and resilience requirements
• Define and evolve scalable, low-latency architecture, establishing clear service boundaries across OMS, integration layers and platform orchestration services
• Lead scaling initiatives to support significant platform growth, including capacity planning, horizontal scaling strategies, performance optimisation and efficient inter-service communication patterns
• Own the build-and-run operating model, ensuring teams are accountable for both delivery and live operations, including on-call rotations, monitoring, alerting and system health
• Establish and continuously improve engineering delivery practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release management and deployment strategies
• Champion modern engineering practices and standards, including code quality, design patterns, observability, resilience engineering and secure development practices
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, Cloud, Security and Data teams, ensuring alignment between business objectives, client experience and technical execution
• Drive visibility and transparency of platform health and delivery, using metrics and dashboards to communicate performance, reliability, capacity and delivery progress to stakeholders
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, building deep capability in distributed systems, performance engineering and operational ownership, while supporting career growth and retention
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, particularly within a global trading environment, maintaining robust controls and auditability across platform systems
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident leadership, including major incident response, stakeholder communication and post-incident reviews
  

The role reports to the Head of Trading Platforms, based in London, UK.
We support flexible working. This position can be performed from both a mix of at our office and from home. Your manager will share details and expectations of your team’s regular cadence of working locations.

About you

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in an Engineering Manager (or equivalent leadership) role within an agile, product-led environment
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex, distributed system environments, with exposure to both backend platforms and client-facing systems
• Strong domain experience in ultra low-latency, high-throughput systems, ideally within trading, fintech, betting or gaming environments
• Deep technical expertise in backend engineering, with strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin or Go, and a strong understanding of performance optimisation and concurrency
• Demonstrated hands-on engineering capability, able to contribute to system design, debugging, performance tuning and critical production issues when required
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, resilience and efficient inter-service communication
• Experience designing and working with API and service communication pattern (e.g. REST, gRPC), particularly in performance-sensitive environments
• Strong knowledge of software design principles and patterns (e.g. SOLID, Strategy, Observer, Façade), with experience across object-oriented and functional programming
• Experience with modern software development practices, including automated testing (unit, integration), version control and structured development workflows
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure and containerised environment (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment pipelines
• Understanding of observability concepts, including monitoring, logging and system health visibility
• Experience working with remote, distributed and global teams
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-driven, proactive and outcome-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership
• Technically credible leader, able to operate at both hands-on and strategic levels

Why you will enjoy working with us

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
• 10 days of Company paid sick leave annually  
• 21 days of paid vacation within the first year of employment, increasing to 25 days after one year 
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
• Comprehensive medical insurance with coverage for your healthcare needs
• Pension fund
• Employee referral bonuses for referring top talent to the company 
• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
• Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements
• Frequent events and celebrations
• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives
• Convenient and cozy office located near the Limassol Municipal Garden

More about Pepperstone

We’re a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit Pepperstonecareers.com and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/

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Pepperstone is an equal-opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.

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