Technical Lead, Platform

Lead the engineers who build the research platform, and stay close to the code.

  • Engineering
  • New York or Remote
  • Full-time

What the job is.

This is a working lead role. You will run a team of four to six, own the architecture, and still review the pull requests that matter. New York or remote, with quarterly time in the office.

What you would own.

  • Set technical direction for the research platform and data tooling.
  • Lead a team of four to six engineers: hire, mentor and review.
  • Own architecture decisions and write the documents behind them.
  • Keep the platform's performance and reliability budgets honest.
  • Partner with research leads on what the platform should do next.

Skills, qualifications
and experience.

Skills

  • Deep systems experience: data platforms, compute, storage
  • Technical leadership without leaving the codebase
  • Written communication: design documents, RFCs, decision records

Qualifications

  • Eight or more years in engineering, two or more leading a team
  • A record of shipping platforms that other people depend on

Experience

  • Research or trading infrastructure is strongly preferred
  • Having made an architectural bet and lived with the result

What we pay.

Base salary $220,000 – $300,000 USD per year, plus annual bonus and equity. The range reflects the level we are hiring at; the offer depends on experience.

Benefits

  • Equity in the firm from the first day
  • Medical, dental and vision cover for you and your dependants
  • Twenty weeks of parental leave
  • Twenty-five days of paid leave, plus public holidays
  • A $3,000 annual learning budget, with no approval process
  • One day a week for self-directed work
  • Visa sponsorship and immigration assistance, including for dependants
  • Relocation support: shipping, temporary housing and help settling in

Tell us what
you got wrong.

A CV, a link or two, and a few short answers. We read every application and reply within five working days.

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A note on discretion: we are privately held and privacy-first. Staff do not name Latice Capital on public profiles, and do not discuss our strategies, holdings or clients in public. We will walk through what that means before any offer.

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