Topstep
SeniorFullstackEngineer-Typescript
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“Senior Fullstack Engineer - Typescript at Topstep. Skills: TypeScript, React, cloud-native applications, distributed systems, event-driven architectures. building the distributed systems that power our trader experience. define and evolve the architecture”
What You'll Achieve.
ensuring reliability, scalability, and clarity as our ecosystem grows; support high-throughput, low-latency workloads; deliver elegant solutions that scale with intention; engineering excellence
Industry & Context.
Proactively identify and resolve issues
on-call participation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs, strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST), modern frontend development (React, Next. js, TypeScript), Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, race condition handling, database fundamentals, schema design, migrations, indexing, query optimization, production mindset, bias toward action, metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, end-to-end ownership of delivery
Nice to Have
experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server
What You'll Do.
building the distributed systems that power our trader experience
define and evolve the architecture
building cloud-native applications
influence coding standards and engineering patterns
ensure the platform scales safely
and operate cloud-native applications
Embed automated testing
and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery
Proactively identify and resolve issues
help ensure our platform remains stable
Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with product engineering teams; foster a culture of collaboration by keeping cameras on during meetings; maintaining a robust Slack environment for communication
Communication Scope
ability to distill complex technical concepts for a range of audiences
Full Job Description
Summary: As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Topstep, you’ll play a key role in building the distributed systems that power our trader experience. You’ll help define and evolve the architecture that serves as the backbone of our payments and purchasing platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and clarity as our ecosystem grows. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript and React, building cloud-native applications that support high-throughput, low-latency workloads. In addition to shipping features, you’ll influence coding standards and engineering patterns adopted across teams, and help ensure the platform scales safely as usage and complexity increase. This role is ideal for someone who wants to contribute to key systems in our ecosystem, delivering elegant solutions that scale with intention. Join us and help shape what engineering excellence looks like at Topstep. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and operate cloud-native applications with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity. Embed automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery. Proactively identify and resolve issues, helping ensure our platform remains stable, performant, and ready to grow. Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable, resilient solutions. Required Qualifications and Key Competencies 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs, with demonstrated impact on scalability and reliability. A solid full-stack foundation, with strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST) and modern frontend development (React, Next.js, TypeScript). Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and race condition handling, with a strong focus on performance, security, and maintainability. Strong database fundament
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