Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team
tastytrade2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend systems for order handling, ledger, and settlement flows.
- Partner with product to scope features, create implementation plans, and oversee cross-functional execution.
- Provide technical leadership by leading project teams and mentoring junior engineers.
- Conduct constructive code reviews covering design, quality, business correctness, stability, and performance.
- Define engineering-wide standards and guidance and advise colleagues on critical technical decisions.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues.
- Participate in on-call and treat production operability as a design requirement.
- Monitor the technology landscape and experiment with tools that improve existing solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience as a technical lead and mentor.
- Deep backend engineering expertise, including idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable communication between services.
- Mastery of at least one programming language and framework, with the ability to become productive in unfamiliar technologies.
- Strong communication, structured thinking, prioritization, adaptability, attention to detail, and execution skills.
- Experience building relationships with technical teams, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Professional experience with Ruby or other parts of the stack, such as PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ, is preferred.
- Experience with ledgers, settlement, payments, banking, or another domain involving money movement and balancing is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the Chicago office.
- Discretionary performance bonus of 15–20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.
- Opportunity to work on high-speed, highly available retail brokerage and trading systems.
- Participation in a lean, collaborative environment that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact.
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About tastytrade
tastytrade is a Chicago-based retail brokerage that builds a platform for self-directed options, futures, and equities trading, along with daily financial education via tastylive. It monetizes through trading commissions, margin interest, and other brokerage fees. Founded by the creators of thinkorswim and acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, the company serves active individual traders in the U.S. and operates within IG North America alongside brands like tastylive and tastyfx.