Our client, a rapidly growing proprietary trading firm handling hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume, is looking for an Executive Vice President of Technology to scale our near real-time trading platform. You'll build an in-house tech team—US or global. Knowledge and understanding of C# required ; understanding Russian is a preference but not a requirement. Trading experience is a plus to support strategy.

This Role Includes:

An Executive Vice President of Technology who is deeply involved in architecture, coding, and strategic execution, to drive the platform from its current capacity to a highly scalable, near real-time trading system.

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the technical strategy to scale the global near real-time trading platform, ensuring high availability and low latency.

• In-House Team Building: Recruit, expand and lead an in-house digital, AI and technology team (engineers, DevOps, QA, etc.), choosing the structure and location (US or global) to support scaling.

• Platform Integration & Optimization: Partner with the leadership team to integrate, modernize and further enhance the security of our platform and tech landscape..

• **Architecture & Scalability: ** * Design a scalable, cloud-based architecture using AWS, GCP, or Azure. * Implement event-driven architecture with Kafka, AWS or other tools for real-time processing. * Optimize microservices architecture, ensuring modularity, security, and performance. * Define and enforce API design best practices for high-performance integrations. * Implement high-availability and fault-tolerant solutions with multi-region cloud deployments. * Leverage containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) to enhance system orchestration and resilience. * Drive serverless computing adoption for event-driven processing. * Optimize distributed caching strategies * Enforce real-time data processing

• Performance Benchmarking: Stress-test the platform, establish SLAs, and implement monitoring for low-latency, high-throughput operations.

• Investor Confidence: Articulate the technical strategy to stakeholders, supporting valuation and partnership goals.

Qualifications:

• Experience in High-Growth Tech Companies: Proven senior tech leadership in a high-growth company ($500M+ valuation) or Fortune 500 Financial services or Trading (preferred) company, scaling transaction volumes from thousands to tens of thousands per hour.
• Trading Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with trading platforms (preferably futures), strongly preferred, including risk management, order execution, and real-time data systems.
• Scalable Architecture Strategy: Deep expertise in building high-performance, scalable architectures focused on high frequency transactions, high availability, and low latency.
• Technical Proficiency: * Knowledge of C# (C Sharp)—our platform's core language. * Advanced knowledge of code architecture for high-transaction systems and API integrations. * Experience with cloud architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes).
• **API & Integration Strategy: **Skilled in API design, third-party orchestration, and resolving integration bottlenecks.
• Team Leadership: Track record of recruiting and leading technical teams (engineers, DevOps, etc.), with flexibility to build globally or in the US.
• Language (Optional): Russian/Ukrainian fluency is a plus but not required
• Approach: A leader who can dive into code, architecture, and strategy, not just delegate.

Location: USA Based (Remote Role)