Senior Software Engineer

Company Name: tastytrade 
Role: Senior Software Engineer (Front-end) 
Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid (3 days/week in office) 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help by modifying existing systems, taking on ownership of current systems as well as green field projects, and troubleshooting issues as they arise. Our engineers work with a variety of tools including Java, JavaScript, and Ruby. You'll work on front-end systems in an effort to expand and improve our product suite. 

What you'll do: 

• Work on tastytrade's front-end trading client applications and account opening software. We use Svelte but, experience with other modern front-end JavaScript frameworks is great. 
• Provide technical leadership for more junior members of the team, by both managing small project teams and providing general technical mentorship 
• Provide concise, constructive, and thoughtful peer reviews for both more junior engineers as well as for other senior engineers. Your peer reviews will cover general codecraft, quality of implementation and overall business domain correctness. 
• Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code 
• Evaluate and build proof of concept implementations leveraging new technology or novel architecture in order to spike a path for new projects 
• Contribute to scaling existing technology by profiling current architecture and refactoring existing code and / or leveraging new technology within existing systems 
• Partner with the UX team and Product teams to iterate on the current customer flows to provide a better user experience. 
• Write comprehensive tests for your code 
• Perform infrastructure work as necessary with support from the infrastructure team to support application development projects 
• Take ownership over several of tastytrade's systems or client-facing applications 

Who you are: 

• The ability to learn quickly in areas in which you don't already have deep expertise 
• A mastery of modern web development (JavaScript / Typescript, HTML, and CSS) and the ability/willingness to deploy and manage production applications 
• The ability to jump into a brand-new framework or language and quickly become productive in it 
• Confident in ability to write tests and quickly deliver stable and performant software 
• 5+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer on a team, preferably with some experience as a technical lead or mentor 
• A keen eye for user experience and design 

Team Perks:   

• Performance Bonuses   
• Stock Purchase Options 
• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits 
• Annual educational / conference stipend 
• Sustainable workday with minimal on-call responsibilities   
• 401k Plan   
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)   
• 10 Paid Sick Days   
• Gym Membership Reimbursement   
• Commuter Benefits   
• Pet Insurance   
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs   
• Charitable Donation Matching   
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off   
• Daily catered lunch when in the office   
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages   
• In-building gym   
• Shuttle to/from Metra   
• Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars  

 
Salary Range: $156,672 - $182,272 
The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of