Lead Platform Engineer

StoneX Group Inc.
October 16, 2025
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With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and development of our internal developer platform and portal
  • Lead cross-team initiatives that align platform engineering with strategic business priorities.
  • Partner with service teams within Platform Engineering to provide common entry points and standard interfaces for backend services.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to address pain points, ease friction, and provide self-service access to common services and technologies.
  • Design and evolve scalable cloud-native platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, and reusability.
  • Mentor engineers in distributed system design, architectural best practices, and reliability engineering.
  • Participate in setting platform-wide strategy and standards, including build & deployment automation, metrics SLAs, logging standards, and incident protocols.
  • Define and implement lifecycle management and failure recovery practices across services.
  • Guide platform versioning, rollout policies, deployment safety mechanisms, and infrastructure management standards.
  • Represent the Developer Platforms team across the organization, connecting strategy to delivery.
  • Remove systemic blockers and define frameworks for solving complex technical challenges.



Requirements:

  • Extensive experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related technical leadership roles. Typically 10+ years, though equivalent skills and impact matter more than time.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional projects and aligning technical work with business strategy.
  • Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using “everything-as-code” and sophisticated automation systems.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering, observability, release management, and infrastructure lifecycle practices.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and fostering reusable design patterns.
StoneX Group Inc.
Location
Chicago, IL
Employment
Full time
Salary range
$100K-120K
Published
October 16, 2025
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