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Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team

Tastytrade
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Posted
26 days ago
Department
tt - Core Brokerage (Backend)
Salary
$180,000-$230,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Significant experience as a technical lead and mentor
  • Deep expertise in building backend systems
  • Strong grasp of idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable communication between services
  • Mastery of at least one programming language and framework
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and frameworks
Nice to have
  • Professional experience with Ruby
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
  • Experience with ledgers, settlement, payments, or banking
What the job really is

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Order Handling and Ledger Team at tastytrade, you will design, build, and maintain backend systems that support order handling, ledger, and settlement processes. You will collaborate with product teams, provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and define engineering standards while also participating in troubleshooting and production issue resolution.

Benefits
  • Base salary range of $180,000-$230,000
  • Discretionary performance bonus of 15-20% of base salary based on performance
Things to weigh
  • Hybrid work model requires 3 days in the office
  • Fast-paced environment may require quick adaptation to new challenges
  • No specific technologies mentioned for the current stack, which may imply a need for flexibility
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