Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TradeStation is an online brokerage firm and trading ecosystem focused on delivering trading experiences for active traders and institutions. The company is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of its next-generation API platform across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and AI-native protocols. The role will lead engineering teams, advance developer experience, manage cloud-native infrastructure, and drive API adoption.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an inspirational and outcome-driven leader — execution and follow-up is everything
- Own the technical strategy and technical roadmap for TradeStation's API platform, spanning REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and AI-native protocols (MCP), partnering with Product Management on product strategy and prioritization
- Drive API-first design principles across the organization, ensuring consistency, discoverability, and developer ergonomics across all API surfaces
- Foster a developer-experience (DX) mindset: treat external and internal API consumers as customers, obsess over documentation quality, onboarding friction, and time-to-first-call
- Lead the adoption of gRPC as the internal high-performance service protocol, establishing patterns, tooling, and best practices for teams across the organization
- Define and enforce API governance standards including versioning, deprecation policies, rate limiting, authentication/authorization patterns, and SLA management
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Business, and executive stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical execution plans that drive trade revenue and platform adoption
- Manage cloud-native infrastructure strategy on AWS and Kubernetes, optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Champion psychological safety within the team environment, modeling it and insisting on it as a core value
- Select, assess, develop, mentor, manage, and retain top technical talent
- Effectively manage people, including planning, assigning, and directing work; evaluating performance, addressing complaints, and resolving problems
- Ensure knowledge sharing among the team to avoid information silos and address key-staff risks
- Continuously refine development processes to improve overall performance and reduce friction to delivery
- Mange and maintain Agile practices and track team performance based on outcomes
- Clear roadblocks for teams to ensure delivery focus
- Participate in business planning and communicate technical knowledge of vision for both current and future API products
Skills
- Remote Position - must reside Florida, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah or Wisconsin
- * Superior understanding and execution of organizational goals and objectives
- * Strong presentation skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
- * Strong technical depth and raw intellectual ability
- * Deep expertise in API design, architecture, and lifecycle management across multiple paradigms (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets)
- * Strong understanding of API gateway and management platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and service mesh technologies
- * Hands-on understanding of Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, and schema-first API design
- * Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, AWS, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
- * Solid understanding of authentication and authorization patterns for APIs (OAuth 2.0, API keys, JWT, mTLS)
- * Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies, DevOps, continuous delivery, and related concepts
- * Experience with resource allocation and personnel management
- * Must be a team player that is assertive, passionate, and goal-oriented
- * Solid organization and prioritization skills
- * Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to pivot and adapt as needed
- * Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
- * Expertise and demonstrated experience in systems design, development, implementation, and deployment processes
- * Demonstrated ability to make decisions regarding necessary team size and composition
- * Strong pattern recognition abilities to identify abstractions and processes that drive team success
- * Development background with proficiency in modern programming languages commonly used for API development (Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node.js, Python); hands-on coding is not required but the ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and review architecture decisions is essential
- * BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
- * 7+ years of relevant team management and leadership experience in high-performance, business-critical environments
- * Experience in the brokerage or financial services industry, especially building APIs for trading or market data preferred
- * Experience designing and operating developer portals, SDKs, and API documentation platforms preferred
- * Knowledge of AI/ML integration patterns for APIs, including function-calling interfaces, streaming responses, and agent-to-API communication (e.g., MCP, tool-use protocols) preferred
- * Experience with high-throughput, low-latency API systems serving real-time financial data preferred
- * Understanding of regulatory requirements for API access controls, data distribution, and audit logging in financial services preferred
- * Track record of growing API adoption and measuring developer experience through metrics (TTFB, error rates, adoption funnels) preferred
- * Experience with infrastructure as code and automating deployments in cloud-native environments preferred
- * Familiarity with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks for distributed API systems preferred
Benefits
- Collaborative work environment
- Yearly bonus
- Comprehensive benefits for you and your family starting Day 1
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible working environment
- TradeStation Account employee benefits
- Full access to trading education materials
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