Engineering Manager Research Engineering

Flow Traders is strengthening leadership across its Research Engineering department and is hiring an Engineering Manager. Research Engineers conduct applied research jointly with quants to deliver our trading models and research platform. As the firm scales the quality of engineering management has become one of the most important factors in how well our teams grow retain talent and deliver - and this role exists to raise that bar.

Engineering Managers are accountable for the planning and people side of the organisation - project deliveries growth performance culture and hiring - and partner with technical leads who own architecture technical direction and hands-on execution. The two work in close partnership; neither succeeds without the other.

You will be measured on the engineers you develop and the outcomes your team delivers. You will spend the large majority of your time leading people and managing delivery.

What you will do:

• Own the roadmap: manage priorities planning and sequencing of the work in line with company goals.
• Develop your engineers: own career planning promotions coaching and structured continuous performance management.
• Plan and build the team: lead hiring headcount planning and resource allocation in line with the teams roadmap and the firms priorities.
• Cultivate a healthy team: actively manage culture morale and productivity and address conflict early and constructively.
• Lead with rhythm: hold regular one-on-ones give clear and timely feedback and invest in team building.
• Translate technical and business requirements into clear delivery plans identifying dependencies with other teams and risks up front.
• Act as the liaison between Engineering Trading and Quant teams to design and roll out new products.
• Drive delivery predictability: track progress against plan manage risk and scope trade-offs and report status clearly to stakeholders.
• Continuously improve delivery processes and team velocity.
• Ensure alignment: keep your teams work connected to organisational goals and delivery timelines collaborating closely with Tech Leads and Staff Engineers on research and technical direction.

What you need to succeed:

• Strong people-leadership skills: coaching feedback conflict resolution and building an environment in which engineers thrive
• Strong project management skills: experience building roadmaps sequencing work managing dependencies and risk and driving delivery predictability in a fast-moving environment.
• A technical or research background sufficient to earn the respect of the engineers you manage and to engage credibly in technical discussions.
• Demonstrated experience leading growing and managing the performance of applied researchers and software engineers.
• A track record of delivering applied research through a team balancing scope quality and timelines.
• Sound judgment in hiring and developing talent.
• Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders including experience managing cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Trading Quant).
• Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.

At Flow Traders we create the conditions for hardworking highperforming people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy to latest technology and a collaborative nonhierarchical culture we give you the tools ownership and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a closeknit smallcompany feel while offering competitive salary annual discretionary profit share and comprehensive benefitsso talent can grow here and stay here.See our benefits below:

• Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Daily catered lunch great coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
• In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade table tennis billiards and game consoles
• Company boat
• In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
• Bi-weekly massages
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year such as the New Years Event
• Global rotations across our offices worldwide
• and more

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes and any other information identifying potential candidates submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders