2 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build services and APIs for core trading platform capabilities.
- Own initiatives from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Contribute to architecture decisions, engineering standards, reusable patterns, and technical strategy.
- Build reliable, performant, well-tested distributed systems with observability, metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, reliability improvements, and technical debt decisions.
- Collaborate with product and design to translate user needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Occasionally contribute to the React/TypeScript frontend.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive complex technical initiatives across teams and strengthen engineering culture through documentation, tooling, and process improvements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems at scale.
- Deep proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem, including production services used across multiple teams.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, or other modern frontend frameworks.
- Experience designing service boundaries and API versioning in microservices or modular architectures.
- Extensive experience building distributed, highly available, asynchronous, event-driven systems.
- Deep PostgreSQL or SQL Server experience, including schema design, query optimization, and transactional behavior.
- Experience with production observability tools, distributed tracing, system ownership, debugging, and incident response.
- Experience with Docker and AWS.
- Practical experience with unit, integration, and system testing.
- Ability to use AI developer tooling while maintaining code quality and maintainability.
- Ability to solve complex problems, build consensus, and lead cross-team initiatives without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills with engineering and product stakeholders.
- Preferred: Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, SignalR, WebSockets, high-throughput or low-latency systems, incident leadership, financial services or fintech, and trading, market data, or brokerage knowledge.
Benefits
- Fully remote to hybrid work environment with collaboration through meetings and Slack.
- Seven company-paid holidays, generous family leave, and front-loaded paid time off.
- 401(k) matching and health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees.
- Bonus for taking five consecutive vacation days, plus food and groceries and health and wellness budgets.
- Eligible for a performance-based bonus.
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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.