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Technical Lead

OneChronos
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$200k - $225kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Technical Lead role at OneChronos, a YC-backed technology company building high-performance market infrastructure for capital markets. Leads engineering efforts, contributes hands-on, and shapes technical direction for distributed, production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

  • Spend the majority of your time building production software, tackling the most technically challenging problems alongside the engineering team.
  • Establish the technical direction for major initiatives, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance performance, correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Lead projects from technical design through production, partnering with engineers to break down complex work into clear, executable milestones.
  • Mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, pair programming, and thoughtful feedback, helping raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Partner closely with product, Engineering leadership, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions.
  • Champion engineering excellence through strong software design, testing, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production-grade systems, including experience leading technical initiatives or engineering teams.
  • Deep proficiency in a systems programming language such as Rust, C++, or Java, with a strong appreciation for writing clean, maintainable code.
  • Comfortable working across multiple languages and technologies with a pragmatic, polyglot mindset.
  • Strong architectural instincts and experience designing distributed, high performance, and highly concurrent systems.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical projects from concept through production while balancing technical tradeoffs with business priorities.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and helping them grow.
  • Comfortable making technical decisions in ambiguous environments while bringing others along through clear communication and thoughtful collaboration.
  • Strong commitment to software quality, correctness, and operational excellence, with an emphasis on testing, validation, and reliability.
  • Familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, production operations, and incident management.
  • Understanding of financial market structure is a plus, though the curiosity and aptitude to quickly learn complex market mechanics is equally valued.

Skills

Required:RustC++Distributed Systems
Nice to have:Java
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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OneChronos is a U.S. equities ATS designed bottom-up to fundamentally address the growing gap between how trading venues match orders and how traders need to execute.

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