Product Engineering – Tech Lead

Wintermute

Product Manager leading NODE platform development to enable seamless institutional crypto trading experiences. Collaborating closely with engineers and stakeholders for a secure, scalable trading platform.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the technical architecture for Wintermute’s trading products, client-facing portals, and internal applications — making the key technology and design decisions that determine how these systems are built and scaled.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers across the full stack, setting standards for code quality, review processes, and engineering best practices.
Drive technical strategy and roadmap alongside product leadership, translating business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Architect systems that handle high data volumes, real-time streaming, and low-latency interactions — the kind of challenges you’d find on a trading platform processing millions of events per second.
Oversee frontend experience across the full customer lifecycle, from onboarding portals to real-time trading dashboards.
Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, trading, and backend engineering teams to ensure alignment and delivery.
Establish and evolve engineering processes — sprint planning, incident response, deployment pipelines — that let the team ship with confidence and speed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role (tech lead, engineering lead, or similar).
Proven track record of making architecture decisions for complex, data-intensive applications — ideally in trading platforms, financial services, or other high-throughput/low-latency environments.
Deep experience building and scaling real-time, high-data-volume systems (e.g., trading dashboards, live data feeds, streaming analytics, order management systems).
Strong command of the modern frontend stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js — and the ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies as needed.
Hands-on server-side experience: building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using languages such as Node.js, Python, Go, or similar.
Solid understanding of end-to-end system architecture: APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, WebSockets, message queues, databases, and how frontend and backend systems work together in high-performance environments
Experience with infrastructure and DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD, cloud platforms, CDN, monitoring/observability, and deployment strategies.
Strong understanding of security best practices (OWASP, authentication/authorization patterns, secure data handling) — especially in a financial context.
Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers — building a high-performing team, not just managing one.

Benefits

Comp & perks

UK visa sponsorship and relocation assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringtechnical architecturereal-time systemshigh-data-volume systemsfrontend stackTypeScriptReactNode.jsbackend servicesAPIs

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationcode qualityengineering best practicesincident responsesprint planningteam buildingcommunicationstrategic thinking