Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The role involves overseeing team reliability, quality, and delivery while collaborating with senior engineers and other departments to ensure the platform's performance and availability.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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)
Benefits
- Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration with cameras on during meetings and a robust Slack environment for communication.
- Seven Company-paid Holidays and 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 and contributes towards health and wellness.
- Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
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