tastytrade is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of their web trading platform, ensuring it remains performant, resilient, and innovative while supporting millions of daily trades with low latency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience building and scaling complex web applications, with a track record of designing large scale, low latency systems.
- Mastery of modern web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, Svelte, HTML, CSS) plus strong backend fundamentals in Java, C++, or Ruby.
- Deep understanding of front-end performance profiling, critical rendering path, and browser optimization techniques.
- Committed to test driven development, robust CI/CD practices, and continuous improvement—always looking for ways to raise the bar.
- Experience in financial technology or trading systems
- Previous work with Svelte/Svelte Kit, Tailwind CSS
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of end-to-end solutions for our Svelte based trading client and core Java trading logic library, balancing modularity, performance, and maintainability.
- Set coding standards, tooling choices, and best practices.
- Evaluate emerging frameworks, languages, and patterns—owning proof-of-concepts to validate fir for tastytrade.
- Perform deep profiling of front end and back-end components; identify bottlenecks and guide major refactors or platform upgrades to support millions of daily trades with sub 100ms latency.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, Infrastructure, and other teams to align on roadmaps, define release strategies, and ensure compliance with regulatory and risk requirements.
- Provide hands-on technical mentorship to Senior and Principal Engineers.
- Lead architecture forums, brown-bag sessions, and design reviews that elevate the entire engineering organization.
Other
- Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
- Partner closely with product, design, infrastructure, and risk teams to drive strategic decisions, mentor across squads
- Able to translate ambiguous business goals into clear technical roadmaps, balancing short term deliverables with long term platform vision.
- Proven ability to drive consensus across teams, lead design discussions, and cultivate technical talent through direct coaching and code reviews.
- Eager to learn new languages and frameworks, comfortable diving into unfamiliar stacks, and quick to ramp up on cutting edge technologies.
