Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
About The Position
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Topstep, you will be instrumental in developing the systems that enhance the trader experience. This involves providing training, offering insights into trading patterns, and facilitating payout requests for both new and experienced traders. You will be responsible for defining and evolving the platform, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and clarity as the ecosystem expands. The role primarily involves working with TypeScript and React to build cloud-native applications designed for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. Beyond feature delivery, you will influence coding standards and engineering patterns across teams, ensuring the platform scales safely with increasing usage and complexity. This position is ideal for someone eager to contribute to core systems, delivering elegant and scalable solutions, and shaping engineering excellence at Topstep.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs, with demonstrated impact on scalability and reliability.
- A solid full-stack foundation, with strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST) and modern frontend development (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
- Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and race condition handling, with a strong focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
- Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server-schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for a range of audiences.
- A production mindset and bias toward action-embracing metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end ownership of delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native applications with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity.
- Embed automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues, helping ensure our platform remains stable, performant, and ready to grow.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
Benefits
- Seven Company-paid Holidays
- generous Family Leave
- Paid time off is front-loaded
- Competitive 401(k) matching
- health, dental, and vision insurance is offered for full time employees
- Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days
- Employee referrals are bonused
- Topstep offers a food and groceries budget
- contributes towards health and wellness
- performance-based bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
