Engineering Manager, Axi
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1 day a week in office
Online FX and CFD trading company
Job no longer available
Online FX and CFD trading company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give traders and partners the edge they need to succeed.
Role
Who you are
- 7–14 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a tech lead or engineering management role
- Proven experience leading full-stack, product-focused teams in fintech, high-throughput, or mission-critical environments
- Strong Agile delivery background (Scrum/Kanban) and comfort working with global stakeholders across time zones and geographies
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions, mentor senior engineers, and influence organizational practices
- Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on background in C# and .NET Core (6/7/8+), RESTful APIs, asynchronous programming (async/await, Tasks), and microservices architecture patterns
- Practical experience with Azure services: App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Service Bus, Event Grid, Application Insights, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Azure Container Registry
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes (AKS) fundamentals: deployment, services, ingress, persistent volumes, resource management, autoscaling, and troubleshooting in production
- Solid DevOps knowledge: CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or ARM templates), containerization (Docker), and GitOps principles
- Solid understanding of SQL Server internals (transactions, isolation levels, indexing, query plans, replication, Always On for HA) and experience with Cosmos DB (partitioning strategies, consistency levels, throughput tuning)
- Experience designing and running event-driven architectures using messaging platforms (Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, or similar)
- Familiarity with modern frontend stacks (React, state management, TypeScript) and mobile (React Native) sufficient to review designs and unblock full-stack teams
- Experience with observability: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and APM tools (Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
What the job involves
- You will lead a domain-aligned global POD (for example, onboarding, funding, trading, risk, or customer experience) that owns backend, frontend, mobile, and data end-to-end.
- Teams are distributed across regions and collaborate to run a 24/7 trading platform built on Microsoft and Azure, with .NET Core microservices, React, React Native, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, messaging, Kubernetes (AKS), and Databricks
- You will lead a full-stack POD to design, build, and operate domain microservices and UIs using C#/.NET Core, React, and React Native on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or equivalent container orchestration platforms
- Own domain outcomes: reliability, latency, availability, security, and user experience for a 24/7 trading platform operating globally
- Drive technical direction: domain boundaries, microservice decomposition, API contracts, messaging patterns, data contracts, and observability standards across the POD
- Oversee containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS), ensuring efficient resource utilization, autoscaling, and deployment reliability through GitOps practices
- Champion DevOps culture: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and monitoring/alerting to reduce manual toil and incident response time
- Ensure optimal use of SQL Server (transactions, replication, high availability) and Cosmos DB (partitioning, consistency models, throughput management), including schema design and performance optimization
- Collaborate with Data Engineering on Databricks-based pipelines and data products aligned to your domain, ensuring data quality and SLAs
- Implement and enforce engineering practices: code reviews, TDD, SOLID principles, Clean Architecture, security scanning, CI/CD gates, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-incident reviews
- Mentor and develop engineers at multiple levels, creating a high-trust, high-accountability culture across global locations with clear growth paths and feedback cycles
- Partner with Product, Architecture, and global peers to shape domain strategy, prioritize work, and manage trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk
Application process
- Step 1 - Talent Acquisition Interview and AI Assessment (60 min)
- Step 2 – Hiring Manager Exploratory Discussion (45–60 min)
- Step 3 – Design & Leadership Round (60–75 min)
- Step 4 – Architecture & Technology Round (60–75 min)
- Step 5 – Cultural & Values Fit (45–60 min)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Axi launched as a humble two person operation in Sydney in 2007, but its growth since then has been pretty spectacular, becoming a multinational, regulated Forex and CFD (Contract for Difference) trading platform.
The company’s offering is quite extensive – access to a wide range of trading markets and platforms, business partnerships, as well as an online trading academy. While the latter products make a lot of sense, Axi has been astute to roll out its e-learning vertical as day trading surges in popularity amongst the general public.
However, Axi ultimately makes its money from its core offerings, and it seems that business is continuing to grow. Revenue has been growing exponentially for its UK subsidiary, where a partnership with Premier League football giants Manchester City is offering plenty of brand exposure.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2025
$1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Rajesh Yohannan
(CEO)Has been CEO since joining in 2016. Prior to Axi they were Managing Director & CEO of Forex company OANDA in Singapore, following seven years in Managing Director roles at Citibank.
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