Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Remote/Hybrid, Payments

topsteptrader; United States; Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid work setup

Retirement plan matching

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Wellness and food budgets

Job summary

TopstepTrader is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to build and operate production-grade products and internal tools spanning onboarding, accounts, payments, and payouts. You’ll own features from design to production, focusing on reliability, security, and simple evolution as usage grows.

You will design, build, deploy, and support features with strong emphasis on testing, observability, and on-call readiness, while collaborating with product and design teams to scope work and estimate effort.

Qualifications

• Five+ years building and operating production systems with user-facing APIs.
• Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js and modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs and working with React/Next.js.
• Proficiency in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data consistency considerations.
• Production operations experience with metrics, logs, tracing, on-call response, and end-to-end delivery ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and support full-stack features with reliability and safe releases.
• Collaborate with product and design to scope work, identify trade-offs, and estimate effort.
• Create and review technical designs and guide architecture choices.
• Ensure automated testing, observability, and operational ownership throughout delivery.
• Improve code quality through reviews, mentorship, and engineering standards.
• Investigate and resolve issues across the stack, participate in on-call, and implement lasting fixes.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within team standards.

Skills

Full-stack TypeScript/Node.js

REST/GraphQL API design

React and Next.js

Distributed systems operations

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Observability & SRE practices

Clear communication

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

TopstepTrader is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to build and operate production-grade products and internal tools spanning onboarding, accounts, payments, and payouts. You’ll own features from design to production, focusing on reliability, security, and simple evolution as usage grows.

You will design, build, deploy, and support features with strong emphasis on testing, observability, and on-call readiness, while collaborating with product and design teams to scope work and estimate effort.