Senior Software Engineer, TRM

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

Role overview

Build and operate full-stack products and internal tools used across trader onboarding, account management, payments, and payouts. You’ll own work from design through production, helping keep systems reliable, secure, and straightforward to evolve as usage and product needs grow.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and support full-stack features, with attention to reliability, safe releases, and operational simplicity.
• Work with product and design partners to shape scope, identify trade-offs, and provide estimates.
• Write technical designs and guide architecture decisions for significant work in your area.
• Include automated testing, observability, and operational ownership throughout delivery.
• Improve code quality through reviews, mentoring, and shared engineering standards.
• Investigate and resolve issues across the stack, participate in on-call, and turn incidents into lasting fixes.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within team standards.

Requirements

• At least five years building and operating production systems with user-facing APIs, including demonstrated work on reliability and scalability.
• Full-stack experience with TypeScript and Node.js, REST or GraphQL API design, and React and Next.js.
• Experience operating distributed systems, including event-driven services, queues, eventual consistency, and concurrency concerns.
• Strong PostgreSQL or SQL Server skills, including schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
• Production operations experience with metrics, logs, tracing, on-call response, and end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Clear communication skills and ability to work across product, design, and quality teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial technology or other regulated settings, or with payment, billing, authentication, or identity systems.
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience delivering large-scale customer applications and using AI developer tools while maintaining code quality.

Benefits and work setup

• Work arrangement may be fully remote or hybrid. The stated annual base range is CAD 220,534–284,560, with eligibility for a performance-based bonus.
• Full-time benefits include retirement plan matching, health, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, and wellness and food budgets. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.