Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Low-Latency Trading Systems
One of India’s most reputed proprietary trading firms is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in building, optimizing, and measuring low-latency order management and trading infrastructure systems.
This is a leadership-oriented role that blends deep hands-on engineering with ownership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration in a high-performance trading environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver infrastructure projects end-to-end, ensuring high quality and on-time execution
- Design, build, and optimize low-latency, high-performance trading infrastructure systems
- Take ownership of system reliability, performance, and scalability
- Work closely with trading, quantitative, and technology teams to support evolving business needs
- Make hands-on contributions to coding, architecture, and system design
- Mentor and guide junior engineers; actively contribute to team capability building
- Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure performance and operational excellence
Key Criteria:
- Qualified Engineer from Tier 1 institute with 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering / systems engineering
- Strong coding skills (Python/C++/Java or similar)
- Proven experience in leading projects or small teams (middle management exposure preferred)
- Experience working in fast-paced / trading / financial markets environments is a plus
- Solid understanding of systems design, networking, and performance optimization
- Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently