Staff Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 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 and build services and APIs powering core trading platform capabilities • Own initiatives end-to-end from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration • Collaborate with product and design to translate user needs into scalable technical solutions • Contribute to system architecture decisions and establish reusable engineering patterns • Write clean, well-tested code focused on reliability, performance, and operational excellence • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and improve system reliability • Build observability through metrics, logging, and distributed tracing • Contribute occasionally to the React/TypeScript frontend • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing • Balance technical debt against feature delivery and business priorities • 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 • Experience with React, TypeScript, or other modern frontend frameworks • Experience designing service boundaries and API versioning in a microservices or modular architecture • Extensive experience building distributed, high-availability systems with asynchronous, event-driven communication • Deep database experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server, including schema design, query optimization, and transactional behavior • Experience with observability tools and distributed tracing in production environments • Proven track record of owning production systems, including debugging and incident response • Experience with Docker and AWS • Practical experience across unit, integration, and system testing • Proven capability leveraging AI developer tooling while maintaining code health and maintainability • Excellent problem-solving skills across multiple systems • Ability to build consensus and drive complex technical initiatives across teams without direct authority • Excellent communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to engineering and product stakeholders

🏖️ 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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