Engineering Manager, Real-Time Trading Platform

F5 Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote / hybrid work options

7 paid holidays

Family leave

Health, dental & vision insurance

401(k) matching

Groceries budget

Job summary

Topstep is hiring an Engineering Manager to directly lead two or more teams of engineers within Trading Platform, building and running TopstepX. TopstepX is a real-time system used by tens of thousands of traders, covering charts, order flow, market data, and services behind them.

This is a people leadership role with hands-on capability welcome but not required. You’ll have autonomy to shape your area as priorities shift, and we avoid micromanaging.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of people or technical leadership experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own your area: spot problems early and decide without direction.
• Develop your people: coach for growth and uphold high bar.
• Plan through change with Product and business priorities.
• Drive reliability and quality of systems and services.
• Staff your teams: hiring bar, interviews, capacity planning.
• Communicate upward: share progress, risks, trade-offs.
• Speak up: disagree openly with leadership.

Skills

People leadership

Software engineering

Startup environment

Production systems

On-call / incident response

.NET/C#

Distributed systems

AWS

Containers

Team building / coaching

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

.NET/C#

Job description

Topstep is hiring an Engineering Manager to directly lead two or more teams of engineers within Trading Platform, building and running TopstepX. TopstepX is a real-time system used by tens of thousands of traders, covering charts, order flow, market data, and services behind them.

This is a people leadership role with hands-on capability welcome but not required. You’ll have autonomy to shape your area as priorities shift, and we avoid micromanaging.