Engineering Manager, Trading Platform

Topstep

1d•$190,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The platform spans order flow and execution, market data, and the services and integrations behind them — real-time systems thousands of funded traders rely on every day, where availability, performance, and correctness matter. This is a people-leadership role: you'll be accountable for your team's reliability, quality, and delivery, and for the health and day-to-day running of the team itself — partnering with senior engineers, other engineering leads, Product, and operations. Occasional hands-on work is welcome but isn't expected.

Requirements

7 + years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations.
2 + years of engineering management experience — hiring, setting direction, coaching, and developing engineers across levels (with clear examples of their growth), and shaping how a team operates and delivers.
A track record of delivering complex technical work at quality, balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment.
Experience leading teams that own production systems — on-call, incident response, and reliability.
A track record of building inclusive, collaborative cultures grounded in psychological safety, agency, and continuous learning.
Technical credibility to guide architecture and trade-off decisions for backend and distributed systems — ideally high-availability, real-time, or event-driven services and API integrations.
Hands-on background with .NET/C# and distributed systems, plus AWS and containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences; able to advocate for the team's needs and work well with peers across engineering and the business.
A data-informed approach to team health, delivery, and reliability, with good judgment about what to measure.
Comfortable leading through shifting priorities and balancing the team's capacity against what the business needs.

Nice To Haves

Trading, fintech, or other regulated financial environments — futures or trading-platform experience is a plus.
High-availability, low-latency, or real-time systems.
Microservices and real-time messaging (e.g., WebSocket/SignalR).
Cloud operations / infrastructure and on-call.
CI/CD tooling (e.g., Argo CD, GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

Run the Team: set direction and standards, set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed, plan capacity, and shape how it operates day to day.
Lead and Develop the Team: run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews; coach engineers toward individualized growth and address performance issues early; build a culture of psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards.
Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence: be accountable for the availability, performance, and resilience of the team's systems and for its engineering process, on-call health, incident follow-through, and observability and tooling (APM, tracing, synthetic/health checks).
Drive Delivery: be accountable for the team's delivery cadence and outcomes, and influence the roadmap to include the technical-investment and reliability work the systems need.
Partner across the Org: collaborate as a peer with the team's senior engineers and other engineering leads; work with Product, peer Engineering Managers, and operations and infrastructure partners; and keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs.