A financial services company providing retail brokerage, forex trading, and financial media services.

tastytrade is a dynamic financial services company that combines retail brokerage, forex trading, and financial media services. As a Senior Ruby Software Engineer, you'll join a team building technology that powers their retail brokerage business. The role offers a unique blend of technical challenges, focusing on both backend systems and customer-facing applications.

The position requires expertise in Ruby development while working with multiple languages including C++, Java, and JavaScript. You'll be responsible for both maintaining existing systems and developing new solutions, with a strong emphasis on performance and practicality. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring junior developers, and contributing to architectural decisions that shape the platform's future.

The company offers an attractive compensation package ($156,000 - $182,000) and comprehensive benefits including 401k, stock purchase options, and extensive paid time off. The work environment promotes work-life balance with minimal on-call responsibilities and various wellness programs.

Located in Chicago's vibrant West Loop, tastytrade provides an energetic tech environment with modern amenities including daily catered lunches and an in-building gym. The company's culture emphasizes continuous learning, offering educational stipends and opportunities for professional growth.

This role is ideal for experienced engineers who enjoy working on complex financial systems, value mentorship opportunities, and want to be part of a growing fintech company. The position offers the perfect blend of technical challenges, leadership opportunities, and work-life balance, all while contributing to a platform that's reshaping the trading industry.

Senior Ruby Software Engineer role at tastytrade, building and maintaining financial trading systems with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits in Chicago.

Senior Ruby Software Engineer

A retail brokerage business that combines trading platforms, financial media network, and forex broker services under the tasty brand family.

tastytrade is a dynamic financial services company that combines a retail brokerage business with an online financial media network. As a Senior Ruby Software Engineer, you'll join a team focused on building and maintaining the technology that powers their retail brokerage business. The role offers a unique blend of backend and frontend development opportunities, working with multiple programming languages including Ruby, Java, and JavaScript.

The position requires strong technical leadership abilities, as you'll be mentoring junior team members and providing technical guidance across projects. You'll be involved in both maintaining existing systems and developing new solutions, with a strong emphasis on code quality, performance, and scalability. The company values practical solutions and performance optimization in their evolving architecture.

The company offers an attractive compensation package with a salary range of $156,000 - $182,000, along with numerous benefits including performance bonuses, stock options, and comprehensive healthcare. The work environment promotes work-life balance with minimal on-call responsibilities and generous vacation time. Located in Chicago's West Loop, the office provides various amenities including daily catered lunch and an in-building gym.

This role is ideal for experienced engineers who enjoy working in a fast-paced fintech environment, have a passion for mentoring others, and want to make a significant impact on systems that serve the retail trading community. The company's recent acquisition by IG Group and its expansion plans make this an exciting time to join the team.

Senior Ruby Software Engineer role at tastytrade, building and maintaining retail brokerage technology with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

tastytrade is a financial services company empowering individual traders through innovative trading platforms and educational content.

tastytrade is a dynamic financial services company that empowers individual traders through its various brands, including tastylive (an online financial media network), tastytrade (a self-directed retail brokerage firm), and tastyfx (a registered Forex broker-dealer). As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work on front-end systems to expand and improve the product suite, using technologies like Svelte, JavaScript, and other modern frameworks. You'll be responsible for developing trading client applications, providing technical leadership, conducting peer reviews, and collaborating with UX and Product teams to enhance user experience. The role offers a blend of technical challenges and leadership opportunities in a fast-paced, innovative environment focused on disrupting the trading industry.

Senior Software Engineer role at tastytrade, focusing on front-end development for trading applications.

Senior Software Engineer

tastytrade empowers individual traders with educational media and trading software.

As a Junior Network Engineer with tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds out the 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 experience our customer-facing applications create. 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 tastytrade deliver the best possible customer experience by bringing a detail-oriented approach, be up to date with current and future networking technologies, collaborating to help proactively identify potential issues on tastytrade's infrastructure and taking on a variety of tasks and projects. Our primary focus is maintaining the most reliable and performant network for the best possible customer experience.

This position is based in tastytrade's Chicago office and requires travel to tastytrade's datacenter locations (greater Chicago and New Jersey) as needed.

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 which powers them provide our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. Our teams are lean, and our management philosophy values personal autonomy and those who truly enjoy building and operating large, highly available, and performant systems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, pragmatic, engineering-focused and have a passion for learning.

Junior Network Engineer at tastytrade: Build and maintain reliable network infrastructure for a retail brokerage business.

Junior Network Engineer

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.

As a Senior Network Engineer with tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds out the 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 experience our customer-facing applications create. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance.

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 which powers them provide our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly-available, and performant systems. Our team is lean and our management philosophy values the autonomy of our people.

You'll help tastytrade exceed this goal by bringing a detail-oriented approach, be up to date with current and future networking technologies, proactively identifying potential issues on tastytrade's infrastructure and taking on a variety of tasks and projects. Our primary focus is maintaining the most reliable and performant network possible for the best possible customer experience.

This position is based in tastytrade's Chicago office and requires travel to tastytrade's data center locations (greater Chicago metro and New Jersey) as needed.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the rest of the tastytrade network team to help design, implement, and manage tastytrade's network infrastructure
- Leverage automation skills and take a "dev ops" approach to improve efficiency and resiliency of the network environment
- Contribute to the advancement of our monitoring and alerting systems
- Maintain comprehensive network diagrams and documentation
- Monitor, guard and analyze the network infrastructure from threats
- Partner with the development team to deliver value to tastytrade's customers
- Provide technical support to employees as needed
- Troubleshoot network, security or voice related issues through resolution
- Participate in a network on-call rotation
- Assist with data center operations, maintenance, migrations and upgrades

Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field experience
- CCNP or equivalent cert or network experience
- Strong understanding of switching and routing concepts
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP stack, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, and Linux
- Advanced understanding of protocols including BGP, Vxlan, and vPCs
- Experience supporting mission-critical, production network infrastructure
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work in a team environment
- Desire to master your craft and become a subject matter expert
- Familiarity with Cloud Network Infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
- Ability to lift up to 75lbs and work in a datacenter environment

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package, including performance bonuses, stock purchase options, 401k plan, educational support, paid time off, and various other perks.

Senior Network Engineer role at tastytrade, focusing on designing and managing network infrastructure for a retail brokerage business.

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A financial services company providing retail brokerage, forex trading, and financial media services.