2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend systems supporting order handling, ledger, and settlement flows.
- Partner with product and cross-functional teams to scope features, create implementation plans, and oversee execution.
- Provide technical leadership by leading project teams and mentoring junior engineers.
- Conduct code reviews covering design, quality, business-domain 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 operability as a design requirement.
- Monitor external technology developments and experiment with tools to improve existing solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience as a technical lead and mentor.
- Deep expertise building backend systems, including idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable service communication.
- Mastery of at least one programming language and framework, with the ability to become productive in unfamiliar technologies.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, absorb new information, set priorities, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex material clearly.
- Experience building and managing relationships with technical teams, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Preferred experience with Ruby or other parts of the stack, including PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
- Preferred experience with ledgers, settlement, payments, banking, or another domain where money moves and must balance.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the Chicago office.
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About tastylive
tastylive produces a free, online financial network with eight hours of live market analysis and trading education each weekday for retail investors. Its programming focuses on options, futures, and active trading, and is closely integrated with the tastytrade brokerage ecosystem. Based in Chicago, it operates as the media arm of tastytrade, which is owned by IG Group, and monetizes through advertising, sponsorships, and driving engagement with the brokerage.