Senior Software Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Design, build, and operate full-stack features from technical design through deployment and production support • Emphasize reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity • Partner with Product and Design during discovery to shape scope, identify technical trade-offs, and provide estimates • Write technical designs and guide architecture decisions • Build automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into delivery • Improve engineering standards through code review, mentoring, and shared patterns • Identify and resolve issues across the stack • Participate in on-call rotation and incident follow-through • Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within Topstep's standards

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs • Strong full-stack foundation with TypeScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, React, and Next.js • Experience designing and operating distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, concurrency, and race-condition handling • Strong focus on performance, security, and maintainability • Database experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server, 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 ability to explain complex technical concepts • Ability to work with Product, Design, and QA • Preferred: background in financial technology or highly regulated spaces • Preferred: expertise with payment gateways, billing infrastructures, or authentication and user identity services • Preferred: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions • Preferred: AI developer tooling and high-scale end-user applications

🏖️ Benefits

• Seven company-paid holidays • Generous family leave • Front-loaded paid time off • Competitive 401(k) matching • Health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees • Bonus for taking 5 consecutive vacation days • Employee referral bonuses • Food and groceries budget • Contribution toward health and wellness • Fully remote to hybrid working environment

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