Senior Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage comprehensive full-stack features from the technical design phase through to deployment and ongoing support.

• Prioritize reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity.

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams during the discovery phase to define project scope, identify technical trade-offs, and offer estimates.

• Create technical designs and guide architectural decisions.

• Incorporate automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into the delivery process.

• Enhance engineering standards via code reviews, mentoring, and shared practices.

• Detect and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack.

• Engage in on-call rotations and follow through on incident management.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools responsibly in alignment with Topstep's standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and maintaining production-grade systems featuring user-facing APIs.

• Strong foundational knowledge in full-stack development with TypeScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, React, and Next.js.

• Proven experience in designing and managing distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, concurrency, and handling race conditions.

• A solid focus on performance, security, and maintainability.

• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server, including schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.

• Familiarity with metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end delivery responsibility.

• Excellent communication abilities and the capability to articulate complex technical concepts.

• Skills to collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and QA teams.

• Preferred: experience in financial technology or highly regulated industries.

• Preferred: knowledge of payment gateways, billing infrastructures, or authentication and user identity services.

• Preferred: familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitHub Actions.

• Preferred: experience with AI developer tools and high-scale end-user applications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Seven company-paid holidays.

• Generous family leave policy.

• Front-loaded paid time off.

• Competitive 401(k) matching program.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance available for full-time employees.

• Bonus for taking 5 consecutive vacation days.

• Employee referral bonuses.

• Budget for food and groceries.

• Contribution towards health and wellness initiatives.

• Flexible working environment from fully remote to hybrid options.