Lead Production Engineer

The role

You will lead and mentor a team of Production Engineers while remaining hands-on in production support and development. You will manage people, set technical direction, and support trading systems and data platforms.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Production Engineers
• Own staffing needs including hiring, onboarding, and training
• Set priorities, allocate workload, and coordinate on-call/shift coverage
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Act as the primary point of escalation for critical production incidents
• Represent the team in discussions with global engineering, trading, and business stakeholders
• Drive the team's roadmap for automation, tooling, and process improvement
• Provide user and system support across all technology streams
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot production systems
• Manage and support static and dynamic databases

Required qualifications

• 15+ years in a technical support role, ideally within trading/market access
• 3-4 years of experience leading or mentoring a team
• Experience with Python, Bash and PowerShell scripting
• Experience with Windows desktop/server and Linux OS administration
• Strong relational database skills (SQL Server, Postgres)
• Experience supporting trading platforms and infrastructure
• Strong problem-solving, business analytics, and decision-making capabilities under pressure
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience building, growing, or stabilizing a support/engineering team
• Motivated to support diverse technology streams
• Ability to work independently and as part of a global team
• Proactive in identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement
• Comfortable balancing people-management duties with hands-on technical work
• Experience with AWS/cloud platforms, cloud monitoring and automation
• Experience with Crypto asset, Crypto market

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating in all liquid asset classes. It is a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing.