Senior Software Engineer - Remote Events Team

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Topstep, you’ll join the Events team and play a key role in building the distributed systems that power our trader experience. This Senior Software Engineer remote position is perfect for someone who combines hands-on execution with strategic vision. You'll help define and evolve the event-driven architecture that serves as the communication backbone across our platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and clarity as our ecosystem grows.

What You'll Do

• Partner with the technical lead and architect to evolve and strengthen our NATS-based event platform as it scales.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
• Design, build, and operate cloud-native services with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity.
• Contribute to backend architecture and help establish patterns that improve consistency and long-term maintainability across teams.
• Embed automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues, helping ensure our platform remains stable, performant, and ready to grow.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade backend systems with user-facing APIs, with demonstrated impact on scalability and reliability.
• Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and race condition handling.
• Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server—schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
• A solid full-stack foundation, with strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST) and modern frontend development (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for a range of audiences.
• A production mindset and bias toward action—embracing metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end ownership of delivery.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with event-driven architectures using systems such as NATS, Kafka, or similar message brokers.
• Experience defining clear service boundaries, API versioning strategies, and event-driven patterns within microservices or modular architectures.
• Comfort with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience building financial, trading, or fintech platforms where data consistency, performance, and reliability are mission-critical.
• A track record of positively influencing engineering culture through mentorship, strong documentation, and technical leadership.

What We Offer

• 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.