Engineering Manager, Trading Platform

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Topstep

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

Finance • Fintech • B2B

Topstep is a company that provides a platform for futures traders to develop their skills and potentially earn funding through their unique Trading Combine program. The program allows traders to demonstrate their abilities in a simulated trading environment, and those who meet the criteria can unlock a funded trading account within a short period. With over 10,000 traders and support features like coaching, community engagement, and educational resources, Topstep aims to help individuals become successful traders while minimizing their financial risk.

📋 Description

• Directly lead two or more teams of engineers within Trading Platform • Lead development of TopstepX, a real-time system used by tens of thousands of traders daily • Own the area by identifying problems early, taking action, and making decisions autonomously • Coach engineers for growth, address performance issues early, and maintain a high performance bar • Work with Product and the business to prioritize work and keep teams delivering as plans change • Be accountable for system availability, performance, quality, and resilience • Set the hiring bar, run interviews, and plan team capacity with other Engineering Managers • Proactively communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs upward • Disagree openly and constructively, including with leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of people or technical leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers across levels • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including production systems and integrations • Experience in startup or other fast-paced environments • Experience leading teams that own production systems, including on-call, incident response, and observability • Hands-on background in .NET/C# and distributed systems • Track record of balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment • Working experience with AWS and containers, including Docker and Kubernetes • Experience building a culture of psychological safety • Preferred: trading, fintech, or other regulated financial environments, especially futures or trading platforms • Preferred: high-availability, low-latency, or real-time systems; microservices and real-time messaging such as WebSocket/SignalR • Preferred: observability tooling such as APM, tracing, and synthetic checks • Preferred: CI/CD tooling such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions • Preferred: familiarity with mobile application development, including React Native

🏖️ Benefits

• Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave • Paid time off is front-loaded • Competitive 401(k) matching • Health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees • Bonus for taking 5 consecutive vacation days • Food and groceries budget • Contributions towards health and wellness • Fully remote to hybrid working environment

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