Hiring: Staff Software Engineer - Order Handling and Ledger Team Company: tastytrade Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 18:05:45 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Ruby About the job Experience: •10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time as a technical lead and mentor Required Skills: •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. •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 •Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, collaborating with team members and stakeholders Qualifications: •Deep expertise in building backend systems, with a strong grasp of concepts such as idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable communication between services •Mastery of at least one language and framework, and the ability to jump into a brand-new one and quickly become productive following its best practices •Quick to absorb new information and become conversant in unfamiliar concepts and technology, with the humility to acknowledge honestly when you're out of your depth •Pragmatic in your use of AI for research, planning, coding, and code review •Comfortable with ambiguity and able to work from loose concepts •A structured thinker who sees the big picture and balances short-term needs with long-term goals •Self-motivated and biased toward action, with the ability to set priorities and execute in a fast-paced environment •Precise in your attention to detail, with high-quality standards •An exceptional written and verbal communicator, skilled at distilling complex material into straightforward language that everyone in our business can understand •A track record of building and managing relationships with technical teams, stakeholders, and external partners Compensation: •$180,000 - $240,000 / year 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!