Staff Software Engineer

Quick Facts

Staff Software Engineer building and leading core systems for a trading platform (real-time trading, market data delivery, brokerage integrations).

Description

You’ll own end-to-end delivery of cloud-native services primarily in a modern .NET stack, shaping architecture decisions and engineering standards as the platform scales. You’ll also occasionally contribute to the React/TypeScript frontend when needed, while ensuring reliability through strong testing, observability, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services and APIs powering core trading platform capabilities
• Own initiatives end-to-end: technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Collaborate with product and design to deliver scalable, maintainable technical solutions
• Help drive system architecture decisions and establish patterns/practices for other teams
• Write clean, well-tested code focused on reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and drive continuous reliability improvements
• Build observability using metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
• Occasionally work across the stack, including React/TypeScript frontend contributions
• Mentor engineers via code reviews, pairing sessions, and knowledge sharing
• Balance technical debt against feature delivery with informed trade-offs
• Strengthen engineering culture through documentation, tooling improvements, and process refinements

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems at scale
• Deep proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem, including designing production services used across multiple teams
• Experience with React and TypeScript (or other modern frontend frameworks)
• Experience designing service boundaries and API versioning in microservices or modular architectures
• Extensive experience building distributed, high-availability systems with asynchronous, event-driven communication (message queues/pub-sub/streaming)
• Deep database experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server (schema design, query optimization, transactional behavior)
• Experience with observability tools and distributed tracing in production environments
• Track record of owning production systems, including debugging and incident response
• Experience with Docker and AWS
• Strong testing mindset across unit, integration, and system testing
• Experience using AI developer tooling effectively while maintaining rigorous code health standards
• Excellent problem-solving and ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems
• Ability to build consensus and drive complex technical initiatives across teams
• Excellent communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to engineering and product stakeholders

Benefits

• Seven company-paid holidays and generous family leave; paid time off is front-loaded
• Competitive 401(k) matching and health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees
• Bonus for taking 5 consecutive days of vacation
• Food and groceries budget and contributions toward health and wellness

Compensation

New hire base salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 annually, with eligibility for a performance-based bonus.