Engineering Manager: Real-Time Trading Platform

Topstep LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid holidays

401(k) matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous vacation policy

Job summary

Topstep LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The platform spans order flow and execution, market data, and the services and integrations behind them — real-time systems thousands of funded traders rely on every day, where availability, performance, and correctness matter.

This is a people-leadership role: you'll be accountable for your team's reliability, quality, and delivery, and for the health and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience — hiring, setting direction, coaching, and developing engineers across levels (with clear examples of their growth).
• Track record of delivering complex technical work balancing feature delivery with reliability and technical investment.
• Experience leading teams that own production systems — on-call, incident response, and reliability.
• Track record of building inclusive, collaborative cultures grounded in psychological safety, agency, and continuous learning.
• Technical credibility to guide architecture and trade-off decisions for backend and distributed systems — ideally high-availability, real-time, or event-driven services and API integrations.
• Hands-on background with .NET/C# and distributed systems, plus AWS and containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences; able to advocate for the team's needs and work well with peers across engineering and the business.
• A data-informed approach to team health, delivery, and reliability, with good judgment about what to measure.
• Comfortable leading through shifting priorities and balancing the team's capacity against what the business needs.

Responsibilities

• Run the Team: set direction and standards, set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed, plan capacity, and shape how it operates day to day.
• Lead and Develop the Team: run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews; coach engineers toward growth and address performance issues early; foster psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards.
• Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence: be accountable for the availability, performance, and resilience of the team's systems; on-call health, incident follow-through, observability and tooling.
• Drive Delivery: be accountable for the team's delivery cadence and outcomes, and influence the roadmap to include technical-investment and reliability work the systems need.
• Partner across the Org: collaborate with senior engineers, other engineering leads; work with Product, operations, and infrastructure partners; keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

2+ years engineering management

communication

data-informed approach

distributed systems

leadership

.NET/C#

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

.NET/C#

Job description

Topstep LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The platform spans order flow and execution, market data, and the services and integrations behind them — real-time systems thousands of funded traders rely on every day, where availability, performance, and correctness matter.

This is a people-leadership role: you'll be accountable for your team's reliability, quality, and delivery, and for the health and