Description :

- One of India's most reputed proprietary trading firms is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in building, optimizing, and measuring low-latency order management and trading infrastructure systems.

- This is a leadership-oriented role that blends deep hands-on engineering with ownership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration in a high-performance trading environment.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead and deliver infrastructure projects end-to-end, ensuring high quality and on-time execution

- Design, build, and optimize low-latency, high-performance trading infrastructure systems

- Take ownership of system reliability, performance, and scalability

- Work closely with trading, quantitative, and technology teams to support evolving business needs

- Make hands-on contributions to coding, architecture, and system design

- Mentor and guide junior engineers; actively contribute to team capability building

- Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure performance and operational excellence

Key Criteria :

- Qualified Engineer from Tier 1 institute with 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering / systems engineering

- Strong coding skills (Python/C++/Java or similar)

- Proven experience in leading projects or small teams (middle management exposure preferred)

- Experience working in fast-paced / trading / financial markets environments is a plus

- Solid understanding of systems design, networking, and performance optimization

- Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives independently