Engineering Manager, Trading Platform

<p><strong>Summary</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within <strong>Trading Platform</strong>, 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.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Run the Team:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Lead and Develop the Team:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence:</strong> 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).</li> <li><strong>Drive Delivery:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Partner across the Org:</strong> 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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications and Key Competencies</strong></p> <ul> <li>7 + years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>A track record of delivering complex technical work at quality, balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment.</li> <li>Experience leading teams that own production systems — on-call, incident r