28 days ago
Canada (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack features from technical design through production support, emphasizing reliability and safe deployments.
- Partner with Product and Design to define scope, identify trade-offs, and provide estimates.
- Write technical designs and guide architecture decisions for significant work.
- Build automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into delivery.
- Improve engineering standards through code review, mentoring, and shared patterns.
- Identify and resolve cross-stack issues to maintain system stability and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident follow-through to deliver lasting fixes.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within company standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs and demonstrated scalability and reliability impact.
- Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js.
- Experience with API design, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, concurrency, and race-condition handling.
- Strong PostgreSQL or SQL Server fundamentals, including schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
- Experience with metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end delivery ownership.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with Product, Design, and QA.
- Preferred: fintech or highly regulated-industry experience; payments, billing, authentication, or identity-services expertise.
- Preferred: hands-on familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions.
- Preferred: experience delivering high-scale end-user applications and leveraging AI developer tooling while maintaining code quality.
Benefits
- Fully remote-to-hybrid working environment with collaboration through meetings and Slack.
- Holidays in accordance with applicable provincial minimum employment standards and front-loaded paid time off.
- RRSP matching, health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees.
- Vacation encouragement with a bonus for taking five consecutive days.
- Employee referral bonuses, food and groceries budget, and health and wellness contributions.
- Annual base salary range of CAD 220,534 to CAD 284,560, plus eligibility for a performance-based bonus.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGraphQLKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLReactTypeScript
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About Topstep
Topstep runs a simulated evaluation and funding program for retail futures traders, offering the chance to trade live markets with the firm’s capital after passing risk-focused tests. It also builds tools and education, including the TopstepX trading platform and a custom real-time charting engine. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, the privately held company monetizes access to evaluations and trader services.