tastylive
Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team
Chicago, Illinois · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 58 days ago
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About the role
- The tasty family of companies empowers individual investors and traders by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, competitive pricing, and innovative financial products.
- The diversity of our offerings and the technology that powers them give our engineers exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems.
- We are an ideal environment for engineers who are self-motivated, pragmatic, and genuinely enjoy creating and operating large, highly available, performant systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own the backend systems behind our order handling, ledger, and settlement flows
- Partner with product to scope features, build implementation plans, and oversee execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Deliver concise, constructive, and thoughtful code reviews covering design and quality, business-domain correctness, stability, and performance
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, collaborating with team members and stakeholders
- Share ownership of production by participating in on-call and treating operability as a design requirement
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time as a technical lead and mentor
- Deep expertise in building backend systems, with a strong grasp of concepts such as idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable communication between services
Requirements
- Mastery of at least one language and framework, and the ability to jump into a brand-new one and quickly become productive following its best practices
- Self-motivated and biased toward action, with the ability to set priorities and execute in a fast-paced environment
Skills
- Monitor the external technology landscape and experiment with new tools to solve hard problems or improve the quality of existing solutions
Company info
- Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team
- Chicago, IL - Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
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