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The Vice President of Real-Time Support Tooling plays a critical role in leading engineering efforts that support our dedicated Trade Support team, which focuses solely on delivering premier support to our trading clients. This role ensures that Aladdin Trader is fully supportable, scalable, and equipped with the right tooling as we continue to expand client rollout and usage. The person will be responsible for building and evolving real-time support systems that proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues—ideally before they impact clients. By investing in cutting-edge technology and tooling, this role directly contributes to reducing support response and resolution times, improving system reliability, and enhancing client sentiment around trading operations. This leader will also work closely with our trading engineers to enhance the observability and scalability of the trading platform—ensuring that system behavior, performance, and anomalies are visible and actionable in real time. This includes integrating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostic capabilities that empower support and engineering teams to respond quickly and effectively. Ultimately, some of the tools and capabilities developed in this role will be incubated into new products and observability solutions for our traders, expanding the value of our support tooling into front-office innovation and client-facing enhancements. These efforts will not only improve operational resilience but also empower traders with better visibility into system health and trading flows. This leader works across engineering, product, and support teams to ensure that our trading platform is not only high-performing but also operationally resilient. The role requires close collaboration with teams across the globe, navigating time zones, cultures, and organizational structures to drive alignment and execution.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the vision, roadmap, and execution of real-time support tooling for Aladdin Trader
Collaborate with team members across multiple offices and countries to deliver high-efficiency, high-availability, concurrent, and fault-tolerant systems
Significantly contribute to the development and scalability of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform
Drive the full lifecycle of projects—from design and development to deployment and feedback—working closely with traders to assess impact and usability
Partner with product management and business stakeholders to define and evolve the product roadmap
Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks early
Apply validated software engineering practices across all phases of development
Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, automated testing, dev ops integration, and level two production support
Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables using Agile methodologies
Foster a culture of technical excellence, guiding and motivating others while brainstorming solutions to improve team productivity and efficiency
Requirements:
B.E./ B.TECH./ MCA or any other relevant engineering degree from a reputed university
9+ years of proven experience
Proven experience managing engineering teams and delivering complex software projects
Strong background in real-time systems and trading technologies
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Track record of building high-quality software using design-focused and test-driven approaches
Experience leading development teams or being responsible for the design and technical quality of significant systems or components
Experience working in a global organization and managing distributed teams
Expertise TCP, Multicast, streaming protocols, and middleware architectures
A proven foundation in core Java or C++ and related technologies, with strong object-oriented programming skills and familiarity with design patterns
Hands-on experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, including building web applications using Node.js
Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks such as React or Angular, and familiarity with micro front-end architectures
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Distributed highly available NoSQL data store, Flexible JSON document data store)
Familiarity with microservices and APIs, ideally using REST, Real-time distributed event streaming platform, or gRPC
Familiarity with high-scale distributed technologies such as Real-time distributed event streaming platform, Ignite, In-memory data stores for caching and real-time analytics
Experience or familiarity with FIX protocol, market data feeds, and trading algorithms
Experience with a observability framework such as OpenTelemetry or Visualization and analytics platforms for metrics and logs
Ability to form positive relationships with partnering teams, sponsors, and user groups
Interest or experience in finance, investment processes, and translating business problems into technical solutions
Nice to have:
Understanding of performance optimization techniques including low/no GC, off-heap caching, kernel bypass, cache locality, CPU pinning, and Linux customizations
Experience with optimization, algorithms or related quantitative processes
Experience with DevOps practices and tools such as Azure DevOps
Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment
A degree, certifications or opensource track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles