Senior Backend Engineer - Order & Ledger (Hybrid, Chicago)

tastytrade, Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

tastytrade is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Order Handling and Ledger Team in Chicago. The role combines backend system design, leadership, and collaboration with product and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable order processing, ledger, and settlement capabilities.

The candidate will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and drive engineering-wide standards. A strong focus on performance, reliability, and clear communication is required in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend systems expertise with idempotency and transactions.
• Able to learn new languages quickly and follow best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the backend systems behind our order handling, ledger, and settlement flows
• Partner with product to scope features, build implementation plans, and oversee execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Provide technical leadership across the team, both by leading project teams and by mentoring more junior engineers
• Deliver concise, constructive, and thoughtful code reviews covering design and quality, business-domain correctness, stability, and performance
• Monitor the external technology landscape and experiment with new tools to solve hard problems or improve the quality of existing solutions
• Define engineering-wide standards and guidance, and be the person colleagues across the organization seek out for critical work and decisions
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, collaborating with team members and stakeholders
• Share ownership of production by participating in on-call and treating operability as a design requirement

Skills

10+ years of professional software工程

Tools

Ruby

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

tastytrade is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Order Handling and Ledger Team in Chicago. The role combines backend system design, leadership, and collaboration with product and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable order processing, ledger, and settlement capabilities.

The candidate will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotation, and drive engineering-wide standards. A strong focus on performance, reliability, and clear communication is required in a fast-paced environment.