Linux Engineering Manager – Quant Trading

Overview

In this role you drive and mentor a growing Linux engineering team while remaining hands-on to master a highly customised, production-grade trading platform. You will balance leadership with technical contribution as you scale operations and collaborate across the organisation. The work focuses on maintaining a robust Linux-based infrastructure powering complex trading systems, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and data-driven decision making. This is a high-impact opportunity at a market-leading firm that values technical excellence and principled leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership and guidance to a growing team of Linux Engineers (managers and ICs)
• Maintain a hands-on contribution style while transitioning into management
• Ensure continuous maintenance and improvement of the platform powering production trading systems
• Support team members to help them thrive and excel
• Foster firm-wide partnerships and a collaborative environment
• Analyze and resolve technical challenges across OS fundamentals and systems programming
• Lead large-scale coordination to improve service delivery and team productivity

Key requirements

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• Strong programming experience and willingness to learn a new language
• Proven experience in leading and supporting individuals and teams
• Ability to build partnerships across the organization
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills (technical, process, people)
• In-depth knowledge of operating system fundamentals, especially Linux
• Proficiency in Unix command line and shell scripting
• Practical experience with modern Linux systems and systems programming concepts

• leadership
• mentoring
• collaboration
• Linux fundamentals
• Linux systems programming concepts
• Unix command line

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