Digital Zone

Regional digital platform for daily finances

Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in PolandNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams with hiring and growing engineers.
Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems, including production delivery of order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems.
Working fluency in order types and lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing and settlement, corporate actions, reconciliation, and audit expectations for regulated trading.
Strong technical judgment for architecture reviews and correctness and latency tradeoffs, and comfort with TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environments.
Experience working alongside compliance and risk in a regulated financial product.
Ability to move quickly on a greenfield product while maintaining correctness and controls.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up, hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set engineering standards for the domain.
Own technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform, including order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio, settlement, and reconciliation.
Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations and make related connectivity decisions.
Own reliability and correctness under market conditions, including latency budgets, capacity for market open and close and volatility spikes, idempotency, and reconciliation that verifies the books.
Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance to design in regulatory, KYC, AML, and audit requirements.
Establish rigorous testing, controlled release, incident response, and audit-grade observability across the order path.

Desired Qualifications

Experience launching a retail trading or investing product from zero.
Exposure to FIX protocol or exchange and broker connectivity.
MENA or emerging-market financial services experience, including market entry and local regulatory context.

Engineering Manager

Digital Zone · Poland (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-18

Workplace: remote

Department: Technology

Description

You will build and lead the engineering team behind new online stock trading product, from zero to launch and beyond. This is a founding engineering leadership role on a greenfield product in a domain where correctness is not negotiable: orders, positions, and money must be right every time, under latency and market-hours pressure. You will hire the team, set the technical direction, and own delivery of a platform that handles real customer capital.

What you'll do

Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up: hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set the bar for a domain where a bug is a financial loss, not a ticket.
Own the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform: order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio, settlement and reconciliation.
Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations, and the connectivity decisions that come with them.
Own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, capacity for open and close and volatility spikes, idempotency, and reconciliation that proves the books are right.
Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance so regulatory, KYC, AML, and audit requirements are designed in rather than retrofitted.
Establish the engineering practices this domain demands: rigorous testing, controlled release, incident response, and audit-grade observability across the order path.

Requirements

What you'll bring

8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring and growing engineers.
Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems. This is a hard requirement: you have shipped order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in production.
Working fluency in the domain: order types and lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing and settlement, corporate actions, and the reconciliation and audit expectations that come with regulated trading.
Strong hands-on technical judgment to lead architecture reviews and make correctness and latency tradeoffs. Comfortable in a TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environments.
Experience working alongside compliance and risk in a regulated financial product.
The judgment to move fast on a greenfield product without compromising the correctness and controls the domain requires.

Nice to have

Experience launching a retail trading or investing product from zero.
Exposure to FIX protocol or exchange and broker connectivity.
MENA or emerging-market financial services experience, including market entry and local regulatory context.

Benefits

Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
Top-of-the-market compensation packages
Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more

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About the Company

Digital Zone

Regional digital platform for daily finances

Digital Zone is a regional technology company that builds an interconnected ecosystem of apps—TicketZone, Rahal, and DigitalZone—to serve daily digital needs for people and families in the Middle East. It operates by integrating its apps into one platform that supports ticketing, payments/finances, and other digital life services, enabling users to access and manage services and spend in a single place with security and intelligence. Unlike many competitors that offer single-purpose apps, Digital Zone focuses on embedding its services into everyday life, building a trusted, large user base and moving toward a platform model. The company’s goal, captured in Vision 2028, is to create a social financial platform that organizes digital life spend in one secure, intelligent space.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Baghdad, Iraq
Founded: 2020

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