Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Topstep is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team within its Trading Platform organization, which builds and operates real-time systems supporting funded traders. The role focuses on people leadership, team reliability, engineering quality, delivery, operational excellence, and collaboration with engineering, product, and operations partners.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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)
Benefits
- Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid.
- 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.
- This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
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