3 months ago
USA (city not specified)Mid Level
Base Salary
$125k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship features for services and APIs supporting core trading platform capabilities.
- Own features from design through deployment with support from senior engineers.
- Collaborate with product and design to develop maintainable technical solutions.
- Write clean, well-tested code focused on reliability and performance.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, debugging, and production operations.
- Instrument services with metrics and logging and contribute to observability.
- Occasionally contribute to the React/TypeScript frontend.
- Participate in code reviews, bug fixes, refactoring, performance improvements, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 3–4 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production features.
- Solid proficiency in C# and .NET and experience building production services.
- Understanding of RESTful API design, service integration patterns, databases, SQL, schema design, and query fundamentals.
- Experience writing automated tests and understanding of testing best practices.
- Ability to debug production issues with guidance and take on increasing scope and responsibility.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include React or TypeScript experience, distributed systems or event-driven architecture exposure, PostgreSQL or SQL Server experience, observability knowledge, Docker or AWS familiarity, on-call or incident-response experience, and financial services, fintech, trading, market data, or brokerage experience.
Benefits
- Fully remote to hybrid work environment.
- 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 and employee referral bonuses.
- Food and groceries budget and health and wellness contribution.
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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.