R&D Team Leader, Dealing Group

Description:

eToro is the trading and investing platform that empowers users to invest, share and learn. We were founded in 2007 with the vision of a world where everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. We have created an investment platform that is built around collaboration and investor education. On our platform, users can view other investors’ portfolios and statistics, and interact with them to exchange ideas, discuss strategies and benefit from shared knowledge. We have over 38 million registered users from 75 countries and our platform is available in 20 languages. We are a fast growing business with over 1,500 employees across 13 offices around the globe, strategically positioned to serve the needs of users. You can find out more about eToro here.

We are looking for a Team Leader to join our Dealer -Broker team on a full-time basis.

The Dealing group is responsible for eToro’s order execution systems across our entire instrument universe, ensuring seamless and efficient operations. This includes applying advanced hedging strategies to manage risk effectively, maintaining real-time monitoring tools, and developing robust configuration systems that cater to the needs of our internal business stakeholders.

We work with cutting-edge technologies, build new microservices-based distributed cloud systems, and migrate legacy systems to new architecture.

The group also plays a key role in collaborating with the product and business teams to align technical solutions with strategic goals, fostering a cohesive ecosystem for hedging and execution.

Through these efforts, we aim to ensure eToro’s execution systems remain a cornerstone of its operational excellence, scalability, and business success.

We value independent, curious, and sharp individuals with knowledge in cloud and OnPrem systems, software engineering, and high-scale architecture. Most importantly, we are looking for awesome people to work with.

What you’ll be doing

• Overseeing and leading an R&D team of 4-5 engineers, reporting to the group R&D manager.
• Building and developing the team, including coaching and mentoring individual engineers
• Leading design, development, quality, and enablement of multiple functional and technical capabilities within a large-scale platform (covering performance, resilience, scalability, etc.). Making ongoing design decisions, and focusing on multiple product domains and technologies
• Owning and leading a part of the product’s functional and technical vision and roadmap
• Establishing technical guidelines & procedures, promoting R&D best practices (CI/CD, monitoring, security)
• Initiating and facilitating R&D innovation, incubating and supporting new ideas
• Closely collaborating with Product Management and Business Owners, DevOps, DBA, and IT. Teaming up across organizational boundaries, and serving as key stakeholders in major decision-making processes
• Working smoothly with local and remote multi-geo R&D and non-R&D teams, while keeping high visibility and effective communication
• Acting as the team's primary technical escalation point
• Being hands-on: developing features and fixing bugs (20%), running POCs, researching new technologies, conducting code reviews, and assisting teams as needed

• At least 5 years of experience in software development
• At least 2 years of experience leading R&D teams of 4 or more (Or scrum master)
• Extensive experience in architecting and developing 24x7, mission-critical services in cloud (preferably Microsoft Azure)
• Experience with C#, SQL, Redis, and messaging systems
• Expertise in development best practices, coding principles, and architecture (SOLID, Clean Code, DR, low latency and high availability)
• Advantage - full stack experience (Angular, NodeJS)
• Experience developing in modern Agile methodologies (Scrum, CI/CD, TDD, etc.)
• Results-oriented, self-learner, problem solver with a 'can do' approach
• Self-managed and flexible to changes
• Strong written and verbal communication; communicating clearly and comprehensively to senior management
• Fluent English