Senior Backend Engineer — Order & Ledger Systems (Hybrid)

tastylive; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

tastytrade, located in Chicago, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Order Handling and Ledger Team. You’ll own backend systems for order handling, ledger, and settlement flows, lead feature scoping with product, mentor engineers, and drive high-performance, reliable services in a hybrid work setting.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, scalable architectures, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust trading infrastructure with strong reliability and latency characteristics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong technical leadership.
• Backend systems expertise with idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable inter-service communication.
• Mastery in at least one language/framework and ability to quickly learn new ones.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the backend systems behind order handling, ledger, and settlement flows.
• Partner with product to scope features, build implementation plans, and oversee execution with cross-functional teams.
• Provide technical leadership across the team and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Backend systems design

Leadership

AI for coding

Communication

Self-motivation

Concurrency control

Tools

Ruby

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

tastytrade, located in Chicago, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Order Handling and Ledger Team. You’ll own backend systems for order handling, ledger, and settlement flows, lead feature scoping with product, mentor engineers, and drive high-performance, reliable services in a hybrid work setting.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, scalable architectures, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust trading infrastructure with strong reliability and latency characteristics.