$230K – $319K/yr · Jobiba est.
● Strong current hiring demand for this role
Company Name: tastytrade Role: Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid (3 days/week in office) About the Role : The tasty family of companies empowers individual investors and traders by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, competitive pricing, and innovative financial products. The diversity of our offerings and the technology that powers them give our engineers exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. We are an ideal environment for engineers who are self-motivated, pragmatic, and genuinely enjoy creating and operating large, highly available, performant systems. Our team is lean, and our management philosophy values the autonomy of our people. At tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds our retail brokerage business. We care about the speed and stability of our backend systems. Our architecture evolves continually as the business grows and new technical challenges emerge, always with a focus on practicality and performance. What You'll Do : Design, build, and own the backend systems behind our order handling, ledger, and settlement flows Partner with product to scope features, build implementation plans, and oversee execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams Provide technical leadership across the team, both by leading project teams and by mentoring more junior engineers Deliver concise, constructive, and thoughtful code reviews covering design and quality, business-domain correctness, stability, and performance Monitor the external technology landscape and experiment with new tools to solve hard problems or improve the quality of existing solutions Define engineering-wide standards and guidance, and be the person colleagues across the organization seek out for critical work and decisions &nbs