# Staff Software Engineer

Are you an engineer who thrives on solving the hardest technical problems on a team? Topstep is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be a go-to technical leader for our trading platform. In this role, you'll address cross-team engineering challenges to design and build the systems that power real-time trading, market data delivery, and brokerage integrations - the systems thousands of active traders depend on with real money on the line. You'll work primarily in a modern .NET stack, building cloud-native services that handle high-throughput workloads, and occasionally work across the stack in our React/TypeScript frontend. This isn't just about shipping features - you'll shape architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and ensure our platform scales reliably as we grow. You'll own your systems end-to-end, from initial design through production operations. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with the judgment to navigate ambiguity and complexity. You'll balance robust, maintainable systems against the reality of evolving business requirements, contribute to technical strategy, mentor other engineers, and help define what engineerin

- **Id**: 3973087
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/topstep-staff-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T15:38:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:18:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7092
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 720700
- **Name**: Topstep
- **Domain**: topstep.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/topstep-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T16:57:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:37:52Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: no

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