Topstep - Engineering Manager, Trading Platform
Requirements
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Responsibilities
• Own your area: spot problems early, act on them, and decide without waiting for direction. • Own your area: • Develop your people: coach for growth, address performance issues early, and hold engineers to a high bar. • Develop your people: • Plan through change: work with Product and the business to decide what matters most, and keep your teams delivering as plans change. • Plan through change: • Drive reliability and quality: be accountable for the availability, performance, quality, and resilience of your teams' systems. • Drive reliability and quality: • Staff your teams: set the hiring bar, run interviews, and plan capacity alongside the other Engineering Managers across all our teams. • Staff your teams: • Communicate upward: share progress, risks, and trade-offs proactively. • Communicate upward: • Speak up: disagree openly and constructively, including with leadership. • Speak up: • Required Qualifications and Key Competencies • 2+ years of people or technical leadership experience: 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 (on-call, incident response, observability). • Hands-on background in .NET/C# and distributed systems. • A track record of balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment. • Working experience with AWS and containers (Docker, Kubernetes). • Experience building a culture of psychological safety. • Preferred • Trading, fintech, or other regulated financial environments, especially futures or trading platforms. • High-availability, low-latency, or real-time systems; microservices and real-time messaging (e.g., WebSocket/SignalR). • Observability tooling (APM, tracing, synthetic checks). • CI/CD tooling (e.g., Argo CD, GitHub Actions). • Familiarity with mobile application development (React Native).
Benefits
• Topstep is an engaging working environment that ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration by keeping cameras on during meetings and maintaining a robust Slack environment for communication. • Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is front-loaded. • Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance are offered for full-time employees. • Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness. • $190,000 - $230,000. • The compensation offered will take into account the internal compensation structure and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors. • This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
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