Engineering Manager, Trading Platform

Summary 

Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The platform spans order flow and execution, market data, and the services and integrations behind them — real-time systems thousands of funded traders rely on every day, where availability, performance, and correctness matter. This is a people-leadership role: you'll be accountable for your team's reliability, quality, and delivery, and for the health and day-to-day running of the team itself — partnering with senior engineers, other engineering leads, Product, and operations. Occasional hands-on work is welcome but isn't expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Run the Team: set direction and standards, set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed, plan capacity, and shape how it operates day to day.
• Lead and Develop the Team: run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews; coach engineers toward individualized growth and address performance issues early; build a culture of psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards.
• Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence: be accountable for the availability, performance, and resilience of the team's systems and for its engineering process, on-call health, incident follow-through, and observability and tooling (APM, tracing, synthetic/health checks).
• Drive Delivery: be accountable for the team's delivery cadence and outcomes, and influence the roadmap to include the technical-investment and reliability work the systems need.
• Partner across the Org: collaborate as a peer with the team's senior engineers and other engineering leads; work with Product, peer Engineering Managers, and operations and infrastructure partners; and keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs.

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies

• 7 + years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations.
• 2 + years of engineering management experience — hiring, setting direction, coaching, and developing engineers across levels (with clear examples of their growth), and shaping how a team operates and delivers.
• A track record of delivering complex technical work at quality, balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment.
• Experience leading teams that own production systems — on-call, incident response, and reliability.
• A track record of building inclusive, collaborative cultures grounded in psychological safety, agency, and continuous learning.
• Technical credibility to guide architecture and trade-off decisions for backend and distributed systems — ideally high-availability, real-time, or event-driven services and API integrations.
• Hands-on background with .NET/C# and distributed systems, plus AWS and containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences; able to advocate for the team's needs and work well with peers across engineering and the business.
• A data-informed approach to team health, delivery, and reliability, with good judgment about what to measure.
• Comfortable leading through shifting priorities and balancing the team's capacity against what the business needs.

Preferred

• Trading, fintech, or other regulated financial environments — futures or trading-platform experience is a plus.
• High-availability, low-latency, or real-time systems.
• Microservices and real-time messaging (e.g., WebSocket/SignalR).
• Cloud operations / infrastructure and on-call.
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., Argo CD, GitHub Actions).

Company Culture & Perks

• Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration with cameras on during meetings and a robust Slack environment for communication. 
• Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is front-loaded. 
• Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance is offered for full time employees.
• Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. Employee referrals are bonused. Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness.

New Hire Base Salary Range

• $190,000 - $230,000.
• Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
• The compensation offered will take into account internal compe