Senior Ruby Software Engineer, tastytrade
$156-182k
+ Performance Bonuses + Stock Purchase Options
Office located in West Loop, 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 West Loop, 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 - should enable tastytrade to continue its upward momentum into the future.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
- Performance Bonuses
- Subsidized Engineering Training Program
- Stock Purchase Options
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Gym Membership Reimbursement
- Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness & Mental Health Programs
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
- Daily catered lunch when in the office
- Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
- Dog-friendly office
- In-building gym
- CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
- Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars
Company values
- Innovative: We pride ourselves on being trailblazers in the industry - doing things our own way because we believe we’ve found better ways of doing things
- Agile: We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve built, but we’re relentless in seeking out even better ways to do things
- Passionate: We love what we do. It’s what drives us
- Dependable: At the end of the day, tastytrade is a brokerage and a firm that our customers trust with their finances. We take this incredibly seriously
- Team Focused: We love our casual atmosphere, but still have our eye on the prize. Our focus is delivering a product and service that exceeds our customers’ expectations, and each member of our team has an important role in making this happen
Company HQ
Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
Articles
Leadership
Tom Sosnoff
(CEO (tastylive, Inc.))Built a breakthrough options-trading platform, thinkorswim, later sold to TD-Ameritrade for $750 million.
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