Senior Ruby Software Engineer, tastytrade
$156-182k
+ Performance Bonuses + Stock Purchase Options
Office located in Fulton Market, Chicago
Options trading, futures & stock trading brokerage
Be an early applicant
Options trading, futures & stock trading brokerage
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$156-182k
+ Performance Bonuses + Stock Purchase Options
Office located in Fulton Market, Chicago
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help traders succeed through sophisticated technology, favorable pricing and exceptional customer service.
Role
Who you are
- The ability to learn quickly in areas in which you don't already have deep expertise
- A mastery of one language and framework, and the ability / willingness to deploy and manage production systems built using these in a production context
- The ability to jump into a brand new framework or language and quickly become productive in it
- 5+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer on a team, preferably with some experience as a technical lead or mentor
What the job involves
- As a Senior Ruby Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a team of engineers that builds out the technology that powers our retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives
- We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the customer-facing applications we build
- Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance
- You'll help by modifying existing systems, taking on ownership of current systems as well as green field projects, and troubleshooting issues as they arise
- Our engineers work with a plethora of tools including C++, Java, JavaScript, and Ruby
- You'll work on front-end and back-end systems in an effort to expand and improve our product suite
- Work in multiple languages across different parts of the tastytrade stack and / or front-end trading client applications
- Provide technical leadership for more junior members of the team, by both managing small project teams and providing general technical mentorship
- Provide concise, constructive, and thoughtful peer reviews for both more junior engineers as well as for other senior engineers. Your peer reviews will cover general codecraft, quality of implementation, and overall business domain correctness
- Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code
- Evaluate and build proof of concept implementations leveraging new technology or novel architecture in order to spike a path for new projects
- Contribute to scaling existing technology by profiling current architecture and refactoring existing code and / or leveraging new technology within existing systems
- Write comprehensive tests for your code
- Perform infrastructure work as necessary with support from the infrastructure team to support application development projects
- Take ownership over several of tastytrade's systems
Our take
With the aim of "making investing fun”, Unicorn-verified tastytrade has amassed a following in the hundreds of thousands, delivering technology and support for "do-it-yourself" investors.
Founded in 2011, the company supplies not only a trading platform but trading education resources as well. It has launched dozens of podcasts and online video channels focusing on investment strategies and trading, as well as learning courses for those looking to get their start in the space.
Acquired by IG Group, a global player in trading, in 2021, tastytrade has since employed this added strength to scale up its business and expand into international markets. This increasing visibility - at a time when markets are especially unpredictable and its platform an invaluable asset - has enabled tastytrade to continue its upward momentum, reporting record demand in early 2025. This strong performance underscores the growing importance of its platform in an ever-evolving market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2018
$20m
SERIES C
Jun 2013
$7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $47m
Company benefits
- 3 Medical Plans Choice
- Dental & Vision Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays - All Market Holidays Off
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Generous Parental Leave
- Disability Leave & Disability Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness & Mental Health Programs
- Performance Bonuses
- Subsidized Engineering Training Program
- Stock Purchase Options
- Gym Membership Reimbursement
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Healthcare FSA
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
- Daily Catered Lunch
- Fully-stocked Kitchen with Snacks and Drinks
- Onsite Gym
- Casual Dress
- Monthly Dev Outings
- Company Outings
- Sustainable Work Day
- CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
- Shared rooftop with greenery overlooking the city
- West Loop Location - Chicago's Tech Center
Company HQ
Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
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