Hiring: Software Engineer - Ruby Company: tastytrade Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:05:50 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Derivatives, Java, JavaScript, Rails, Risk Management, Ruby, Salesforce, Series 7, Slack, Svelte About the job Experience: •3-5 years of experience in high-volume customer service, trading operations, or a trade desk role •3-5 years of hands-on experience with options, futures, and futures options trading •2 years of professional experience with Ruby — or equivalent experience in another object-oriented language (e.g. Java) alongside a commitment to work primarily in Ruby and to interview in it. •5 years of experience in high-volume customer service, trading operations, or a trade desk role •5 years of hands-on experience with options, futures, and futures options trading Required Skills: •Work in multiple languages across different parts of the tastytrade stack and/or front-end trading client applications. •Design, build and maintain services in a distributed architecture, thinking about failure modes, latency and data consistency as you go. •Provide guidance and leadership to more junior members of the team when questions arise about language or implementation specifics, and contribute in a meaningful way to our peer review process. •Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code with lightweight guidance from a senior engineer or team leadership. •Work independently on smaller-scope tasks, as well as under the guidance of senior engineers to contribute to larger projects. •Write comprehensive tests for your code. •Engage in light infrastructure work to support application development work where applicable. •Continue your growth by learning new systems and working towards ownership of tastytrade's systems. Qualifications: •Demonstrable professional experience working as a software engineer on a team. •A mastery of at least one of our languages or frameworks and experience dealing with it in a production context. •The ability to learn quickly in areas in which you don't already have deep expertise. •A willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, or technologies beyond your current expertise. •Accountability and a willingness to take ownership of your work. •Curiosity and a proactive approach to problem-solving. •Front-end experience, ideally with Svelte, and any exposure to micro-frontend architectures. •A working grasp of application security and secure coding practices. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!