Our client, a rapidly growing proprietary trading firm handling hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume, is looking for an Executive Vice President of Technology to scale our near real-time trading platform. You’ll build an in-house tech team—US or global. Knowledge and understanding of C# required; understanding Russian is a preference but not a requirement. Trading experience is a plus to support strategy.

This Role Includes:

An Executive Vice President of Technology who is deeply involved in architecture, coding, and strategic execution, to drive the platform from its current capacity to a highly scalable, near real-time trading system.

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the technical strategy to scale the global near real-time trading platform, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• In-House Team Building: Recruit, expand and lead an in-house digital, AI and technology team (engineers, DevOps, QA, etc.), choosing the structure and location (US or global) to support scaling.
• Platform Integration & Optimization: Partner with the leadership team to integrate, modernize and further enhance the security of our platform and tech landscape..
• Architecture & Scalability:
  • Design a scalable, cloud-based architecture using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Implement event-driven architecture with Kafka, AWS or other tools for real-time processing.
  • Optimize microservices architecture, ensuring modularity, security, and performance.
  • Define and enforce API design best practices for high-performance integrations.
  • Implement high-availability and fault-tolerant solutions with multi-region cloud deployments.
  • Leverage containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) to enhance system orchestration and resilience.
  • Drive serverless computing adoption for event-driven processing.
  • Optimize distributed caching strategies
  • Enforce real-time data processing

• Performance Benchmarking: Stress-test the platform, establish SLAs, and implement monitoring for low-latency, high-throughput operations.
• Investor Confidence: Articulate the technical strategy to stakeholders, supporting valuation and partnership goals.

Qualifications:

• Experience in High-Growth Tech Companies: Proven senior tech leadership in a high-growth company ($500M+ valuation) or Fortune 500 Financial services or Trading (preferred) company, scaling transaction volumes from thousands to tens of thousands per hour.
• Trading Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with trading platforms (preferably futures), strongly preferred, including risk management, order execution, and real-time data systems.
• Scalable Architecture Strategy: Deep expertise in building high-performance, scalable architectures focused on high frequency transactions, high availability, and low latency.
• Technical Proficiency:
  • Knowledge of C# (C Sharp)—our platform’s core language.
  • Advanced knowledge of code architecture for high-transaction systems and API integrations.
  • Experience with cloud architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes).
• API & Integration Strategy: Skilled in API design, third-party orchestration, and resolving integration bottlenecks.
• Team Leadership: Track record of recruiting and leading technical teams (engineers, DevOps, etc.), with flexibility to build globally or in the US.
• Language (Optional): Russian/Ukrainian fluency is a plus but not required
• Approach: A leader who can dive into code, architecture, and strategy, not just delegate.

Location: USA Based (Remote Role)