Director, Engineering (Performance)

• Define the roadmap for performance profiling, tooling, optimization, and latency reduction across the entire exchange platform.

• Learn and understand the business vision and market opportunity for the company

• Exceptional hands-on technology leader to 'drive and own' the performance optimization, vision, direction, and technology roadmap for system performance and optimization for all of Index Exchange

• Design, develop, and drive implementation of all performance- and latency-critical services and pipelines in our exchange

• Design, develop, and drive implementation of performance profiling and optimization tooling and frameworks, and integrate same into our build and validation pipelines

• Establish and advance best practices and standards for performance and latency critical pipelines, and ensure that all Index engineering teams subscribe to same

• Manage all requirements related to performance and latency metrics and observability

• Develop and champion the near-term targets against long term strategy for continuous performance and latency improvements for our exchange

• Make significant contributions while working cross functionally across engineering on the strategic technology roadmap for the company

• As a key member of our core architecture team of the most senior technologists in the company, lead the architecture and design for all technology platform modules and products for the company, with a particular focus on pervasive performance and latency optimization, profiling, and observability

• Core member of team to build and evolve technology planning, design, and architectural process for all of Index, driving collaborative engagement and enabling innovation from the entire organization

• As a key member of our technology leadership team, organize and drive integrated release planning and coordination and design across platform, software, analytics, and infrastructure teams

• Drive alignment across all agile engineering teams, with a strong focus on best in class architectural and technology standards and engineering best practices

• Design and build quality, performance, security, efficiency, and reliability in from day one, and inspire other team members to do the same

• Prototype, vet, and champion new technology introductions to our platform

• Effectively represent our performance capabilities and strategies to diverse internal teams, as well as to external partners and customers

• A respected technical role model and mentor for engineering teams, leading, motivating, and challenging a diverse globally distributed technology team

• Develop technology strategy, clearly articulate and drive delivery as a core member of a technology architecture leadership team

• Build, maintain, and drive the technology roadmap, in close collaboration with Chief Architect and other architects

• Champion quality and data driven decisions, development, and delivery

• Pragmatic technology leadership, balancing long-term R&D investments with near-term execution and business impact

• Communicate design and decisions and influence technology and product direction of peers and executive leadership

• Make and meet commitments, communicating changes in plans whether they be design or timeline modifications honestly and transparently

• Excellent communication skills, which include active listening and the ability to present complex ideas in concise written and verbal descriptions which are easily understood by both technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong people skills - able to communicate with colleagues while simultaneously building credibility and rapport. Also, able to modify one's behavioral style to respond to the needs of others while maintaining own objectives

• A technologist's technologist - able to lead high performance technology teams by example

• Ability to manage, build and complement high performance teams with a natural ability to level-up high-performing engineers

• A strong leader who can lead, manage, and inspire teams both locally and remotely in today's increasingly virtual world

• An organized individual who is very detail oriented and can develop plans necessary for teams to meet specific goals

• An aggressive problem solver who can provide creative solutions to complex situations and obtain buy-in from those affected

• An independent worker who can take the initiative to define and prioritize specific goals and objectives, and to do the same for others

• A team player that works hard, admits their strengths and weaknesses, and has the flexibility to improve by learning new things

• Inspirational and results-oriented leader, capable of earning the trust and respect of high performing engineering teams

• High integrity. Great judgement. Persistent. Winning Attitude.

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent

• 10+ years of experience in large scale commercial software development environments

• 5+ years of significant technology leadership experience with high volume low latency distributed platforms (experience with globally-distributed industry-scale platforms preferred), and large scale (preferably industry scale) performance and latency optimized pipelines and platforms

• Expert in software development lifecycle and performance profiling and optimization, and how to drive the technology roadmap concurrent with the feature roadmap

• Demonstrated history as an advocate and coach for robust architectural patterns and frameworks, test driven development, and frequent delivery

• Expert in large-scale system profiling, concurrency, and memory management, and designing and building distributed systems

• Expert in establishing pragmatic performance metrics, observability, and targets for large-scale systems (industry scale platform experience preferred)

• Demonstrated ability developing, advancing, and evolving a robust technology roadmap

• Demonstrated history of developing architectural designs and standards, platforms, and frameworks that are effectively leveraged by many development teams

• Expert in large scale distributed stores and streaming pipelines (AeroSpike. Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, Parquet, Elasticsearch, Vertica, etc) in large-scale high-throughput environments

• Expert at profiling and optimizing high-volume transaction flows using advanced analytics and machine learning

• Expert in leveraging continuous integration and robust build/test automation, with a preference for cross-platform stacks and containerization (Git, Sonar, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to globally distributed high performance teams, driving greenfield development in fast moving industries

• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and grow high performing technical talent at all levels

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment -

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