Technical Product Manager

Position: Technical Product Manager – FX Electronic Trading

Location: Mumbai

Experience Range: +2 years

About us:

InTrade is a fast-growing trading technology start-up HQ at Melbourne Australia. It specialises in the design and development of high-performance trading systems for institutional participants viz Large Banks, HFTs and Corporations. Our eFX Trading Platform is the backbone of our business, supporting real-time pricing, market making, algorithmic trading, auto-hedging, and risk management.

Role overview: 

We are looking for an exceptional Technical Product Manager who combines a strong understanding of electronic trading technology with outstanding analytical, functional design, and product management capabilities.

The successful candidate will work closely with Founder, software architects, developers, and Clients to translate complex FX trading requirements into technically coherent, scalable, and implementation-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product & Technology Architecture

• Develop a thorough understanding of InTrade's existing product capabilities, technical architecture, and functional workflows.
• Understand interactions between services, APIs, messaging systems, databases, and external integrations.
• Evaluate how new functionality should integrate with existing platform components.
• Ensure to reuse existing capabilities rather than introduce unnecessary complexity.
• Collaborate with software devs to evaluate technical feasibility, dependencies, and architectural implications.
• Ensure functional requirements & designs are consistent with the platform's broader architecture and long-term planned evolution
• Work closely with UX designers to develop intuitive and efficient trading interfaces.
• Support engineers throughout development by resolving functional ambiguities and evaluating design alternatives.
• Collaborate with QA teams to establish comprehensive test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Validate delivered functionality against intended business requirements.
• Maintain functional consistency and product quality across successive releases.

1. Business Analysis & Functional Solution Design

• Translate business objectives and product vision into comprehensive, developer-ready functional specifications.
• Independently analyse requirements, identify gaps, and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Define detailed business rules, validations, workflows, exception scenarios, and state transitions.
• Produce process diagrams, use cases, data requirements, interface specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Document interactions between existing functionality and proposed enhancements.
• Ensure specifications are sufficiently detailed to minimise ambiguity during development.
• Identify functional and technical dependencies early in the design process.
• The ability to independently produce exceptionally clear and comprehensive functional specifications is fundamental to this role.

1. FX Domain Knowledge

• Demonstrate sound understanding of FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps, and NDFs & their operations.
• Understand RFQ, RFS, streaming and institutional electronic execution workflows.
• Appreciate FX market conventions, pricing principles, and trade lifecycle.
• Work closely with domain specialists to develop and refine FX product capabilities.

Deep expertise in every FX instrument is not essential, but a strong foundation in institutional FX markets is expected.

1. Electronic Trading Technology Expertise

• Demonstrate strong understanding of institutional electronic trading systems and their underlying technology.
• Understand pricing engines, liquidity aggregation, order management, execution workflows, and trade lifecycle processing.
• Possess working knowledge of FIX messaging, APIs, event-driven architectures, and system integration patterns.
• Understand the functional and technical considerations involved in real-time, high-performance trading platforms.
• Appreciate the implications of latency, throughput, resilience, concurrency, and data consistency.
• Engage effectively with engineering teams on system design and implementation approaches.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in electronic trading technology, Financial markets or institutional financial technology. Exceptional Freshers from Tier-I B-Schools can be considered
• Masters in a financial or quantitative finance or related discipline. Additional training under CFA, FRM, MS (Fin) etc is a big plus.
• Solid knowledge of electronic trading workflows and institutional financial markets.
• Familiarity with APIs, FIX messaging, databases, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience in product management, functional solution architecture, or senior business analysis.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Strong ownership mentality and ability to work independently.

Why Join Us?

• A Once in life chance to shape next-gen Trading Systems set-up
• A front-row seat in managing the next-generation trading platform
• A flat, engineering-first culture focused on delivery and innovation
• Competitive compensation with performance upside and high ESOPs