2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$155k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack features from technical design through production support.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape 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 workflows.
- Contribute to code reviews, mentoring, shared engineering standards, and reusable patterns.
- Identify and resolve issues across the stack to maintain system stability, performance, and scalability.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident follow-through to deliver lasting fixes.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within company standards.
Requirements
- At least 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, REST, GraphQL, React, and Next.js.
- Experience designing and operating 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 experience in fintech or regulated industries, payment gateways, billing infrastructure, authentication, or identity services.
- Preferred familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, and AI developer tooling.
- Preferred track record delivering high-scale end-user applications with strong product design focus.
Benefits
- The role may be fully remote or hybrid.
- Seven company-paid holidays, generous family leave, and front-loaded paid time off are provided.
- Full-time employees receive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Vacations are encouraged, with a bonus for taking five consecutive days.
- Employee referrals are bonused, and the company provides food and grocery benefits plus health and wellness contributions.
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.