Head of Exchange Infrastructure

Canada
Remote
Posted Oct 20, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job summary

Define the product vision and long-term strategy for core exchange infrastructure, including matching engines and API systems. Lead a team of product managers to consolidate multiple platforms into a unified, scalable, and high-performance trading environment.

Job details

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Exchange Infrastructure based in Canada. Join a global financial technology organization at the forefront of cryptocurrency trading and digital asset infrastructure. As Head of Exchange Infrastructure, you will define the product vision and long-term strategy for the core systems powering a comprehensive suite of trading products. You will lead the consolidation of multiple matching engines and APIs into a unified, scalable platform that supports spot and derivatives markets. Managing a team of four to five Product Managers, you will combine strategic leadership with hands-on product ownership and technical decision-making. You will collaborate closely with engineering, risk, credit, and compliance teams to deliver reliable, high-performance infrastructure without disrupting live markets. Your work will directly influence critical exchange capabilities, including latency, throughput, uptime, resilience, and cross-product account functionality. This is an opportunity to shape the future of digital asset trading through platform innovation, strong product leadership, and a long-term infrastructure vision. \n Accountabilities Define product vision and strategy: Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the exchange infrastructure layer, covering the matching engine, core infrastructure, third-party custody, algorithmic trading engine, and API engine. Lead product team development: Manage and develop a team of four to five Product Managers, establish high standards for product management, and foster a culture of accountability, autonomy, and continuous improvement. Consolidate exchange infrastructure: Lead the migration from multiple independent matching engines toward a unified exchange stack, beginning with US derivatives, followed by international derivatives and spot trading. Build a unified, reusable platform: Develop interface-agnostic infrastructure that enables product teams and customer interfaces to share common capabilities rather than maintaining separate systems and bespoke integrations. Establish performance standards: Define and monitor key infrastructure metrics, including p99 latency, throughput, uptime, and resilience, ensuring teams deliver against measurable performance and reliability objectives. Coordinate complex migrations: Partner with engineering and infrastructure leaders to sequence technical changes, manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and maintain uninterrupted operations across live trading markets. Enable integrated account functionality: Collaborate with Risk and Credit Infrastructure teams to support a unified account experience that allows clients to trade across multiple products using a shared account. Drive cross-functional alignment: Bring together product, engineering, risk, and compliance stakeholders around a common infrastructure strategy, ensuring consistent priorities and coordinated execution. Remain hands-on in product delivery: Personally contribute to roadmaps, product specifications, and strategic decisions when needed, balancing team leadership with direct involvement in critical initiatives. Anticipate industry developments: Monitor changes in digital asset markets, trading infrastructure, and market structure to identify opportunities and ensure the platform remains competitive and adaptable. Requirements Senior product leadership experience: Significant experience leading product strategy for exchanges, trading platforms, or other high-performance financial or technology infrastructure. People management: Proven ability to manage, mentor, and develop Product Managers, including leading experienced teams that can operate independently while maintaining alignment with broader organizational objectives. Strategic roadmap ownership: Demonstrated success defining product vision, translating business and technical objectives into long-term roadmaps, and delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams. Matching engine expertise: Strong understanding of matching engine architecture, market data systems, exchange infrastructure, and the technical trade-offs associated with low-latency, high-throughput environments. Platform product management: Experience building platforms for internal customers and distinguishing reusable infrastructure capabilities from isolated, customized solutions. Technical and analytical judgment: Ability to evaluate architectural decisions, prioritize competing requirements, understand infrastructure performance constraints, and make informed product trade-offs. Hands-on leadership approach: Willingness to contribute directly to product discovery, roadmap planning, specifications, and execution while empowering team members to own their areas. Cross-functional communication: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences and build alignment across organizational boundaries. Industry knowledge and motivation: Strong interest in cryptocurrency markets, exchange operations, market structure, and the development of next-generation trading infrastructure. Preferred qualifications: An engineering background involving the development or operation of high-performance systems; experience across both spot and derivatives markets; experience at a cryptocurrency exchange with comparable scale, trading volumes, and uptime requirements; and a track record of coordinating platform roadmaps across interconnected product organizations. Benefits Remote work: Fully remote opportunity for candidates based in Canada. Competitive compensation: Salary and detailed compensation arrangements are not specified in the original job description. Senior leadership opportunity: Lead an experienced product team and shape the strategic direction of mission-critical exchange infrastructure. Technical and strategic ownership: Influence platform architecture, product roadmaps, infrastructure consolidation, and long-term engineering priorities. Global collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams in product, engineering, risk, credit, and compliance across an international organization. High-impact initiatives: Contribute to the development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure supporting cryptocurrency trading products. Professional development: Expand your leadership and product strategy expertise while working on complex infrastructure challenges in a rapidly evolving industry. Inclusive workplace: Join an organization that values diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and professional experiences and makes employment decisions based on relevant skills and qualifications. 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What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires significant senior product leadership experience in exchanges or high-performance financial infrastructure. Candidates must possess deep expertise in matching engine architecture and a proven ability to manage and mentor product teams.