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 TRM Engineering, which builds trader-facing products and internal business tools. The role is responsible for technical quality, delivery outcomes, reliability, team development, hiring, and day-to-day team health while partnering across Product, Design, QA, and infrastructure.
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
- Own the technical quality of the team’s systems: guide architecture and trade-off decisions, own the application-level technical strategy, evaluate third-party technology and integrations, shape epics across reliability, tooling, and security, and set the team’s technical direction
- Drive reliability and operational excellence: own engineering process (PR and merge policy, ticket hygiene, environment consistency, build and versioning, repo standards); own on-call health and incident follow-through for the team’s services; and own the availability and performance of what the team ships, so production problems turn into prioritized engineering work rather than recurring firefighting
- Own delivery cadence and outcomes: partner with Product and Design through discovery to shape scope and provide credible estimates; manage capacity, planning, and prioritization across feature delivery, technical investment, and operational reliability; and be accountable for release quality and predictability, not just sprint completion
- Partner across the org: collaborate as a peer with the team’s senior engineers and peer Engineering Managers, and work with Product, Design, QA, Support, and infrastructure partners; keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs
- Own the team’s overall health and effectiveness, including how well it works with the teams that depend on it and the teams it depends on
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 across. TypeScript and Node.js web applications and services, including customer-facing products, API design, and third-party integrations
- Hands-on background with TypeScript and Node.js, modern front-end frameworks (React or similar), and cloud infrastructure on AWS, including containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD
- 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
- Fintech or other regulated environments where correctness, auditability, and compliance shape how software gets built
- Consumer or customer-facing product development at scale, with a strong sense of user experience and product quality
- Experience leading teams that use AI-assisted development tooling well, with a point of view on how it changes team output and code quality standards
- Payments, billing, or identity and authentication systems
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
Benefits
- Fully remote to hybrid working environment
- Seven Company-paid Holidays
- Generous Family Leave
- Paid time off is front-loaded
- Competitive 401(k) matching for full-time employees
- Health insurance for full-time employees
- Dental insurance for full-time employees
- Vision insurance for full-time employees
- A bonus for taking 5 consecutive days of vacation
- Food and groceries budget
- 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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