Staff Software Engineer

Company Name : tastytrade

Role : Staff Software Engineer – Web Platform Team (Front-End)

Location : Chicago, IL - Hybrid (3 days / week in office)

As a Staff Software Engineer on our web trading platform, you'll be a technical architect and influencer—owning large-scale initiatives that shape the future of our client-facing applications. You'll partner closely with product, design, infrastructure, and risk teams to drive strategic decisions, mentor across squads, and ensure our platform remains performant, resilient, and innovative.

What you'll do :

• 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.
• Champion a "shift-left" mindset; driving test automation, CI / CD pipeline enhancements, and production observability (logging, tracing, metrics) to minimize incidents and accelerate feedback loops.

Who you are :

Nice to Have

Team Perks :

Salary : $225,000

The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications

About Us :

The tasty house of brands empowers individual traders differently. tastylive, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network, tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer. In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc. (previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years. Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience. This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.

Our dream is simple : we want more people to find more success with a better trading experience. That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.

Location : Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.

tastytrade | tasty live | tastyFX | tastycrypto

1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607