Engineering Manager, TRM

Summary

Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within TRM Engineering, the organization that builds the products funded traders and our internal teams use every day: the trader-facing web experience, the account and onboarding flows, the payments and payout paths, and the internal tooling the business runs on. This is a technical leadership role, not a coordination role. You'll be accountable for the technical quality of your team's systems, for its delivery cadence and outcomes, and for the health and day-to-day running of the team itself, partnering with senior engineers, Product, Design, QA, and infrastructure partners. Occasional hands-on work is welcome but isn't expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Run the team: set direction and standards, set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed, plan capacity, and shape how it operates day to day.
• Lead and develop the team: run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews; coach engineers toward individualized growth and address performance issues early; build a culture of psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards.
• Own the technical quality of the team’s systems: guide architecture and trade-off decisions, own the application-level technical strategy, evaluate third-party technology and integrations, shape epics across reliability, tooling, and security, and set the team’s technical direction
• Drive reliability and operational excellence: own engineering process (PR and merge policy, ticket hygiene, environment consistency, build and versioning, repo standards); own on-call health and incident follow-through for the team’s services; and own the availability and performance of what the team ships, so production problems turn into prioritized engineering work rather than recurring firefighting.
• Own delivery cadence and outcomes: partner with Product and Design through discovery to shape scope and provide credible estimates; manage capacity, planning, and prioritization across feature delivery, technical investment, and operational reliability; and be accountable for release quality and predictability, not just sprint completion.
• Partner across the org: collaborate as a peer with the team’s senior engineers and peer Engineering Managers, and work with Product, Design, QA, Support, and infrastructure partners; keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs.
• Own the team’s overall health and effectiveness, including how well it works with the teams that depend on it and the teams it depends on.

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies

• 7 + years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations.
• 2 + years of engineering management experience - hiring, setting direction, coaching, and developing engineers across levels (with clear examples of their growth), and shaping how a team operates and delivers.
• A track record of delivering complex technical work at quality, balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment.
• Experience leading teams that own production systems - on-call, incident response, and reliability.
• A track record of building inclusive, collaborative cultures grounded in psychological safety, agency, and continuous learning.
• Technical credibility to guide architecture and trade-off decisions across. TypeScript and Node.js web applications and services, including customer-facing products, API design, and third-party integrations.
• Hands-on background with TypeScript and Node.js, modern front-end frameworks (React or similar), and cloud infrastructure on AWS, including containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences; able to advocate for the team's needs and work well with peers across engineering and the business.
• A data-informed approach to team health, delivery, and reliability, with good judgment about what to measure.
• Comfortable leading through shifting priorities and balancing the team's capacity against what the business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fintech or other regulated environments where correctness, auditability, and compliance shape how software gets built.
• Consumer or customer-facing product development at scale, with a strong sense of user experience and product quality.
• Experience leading teams that use AI-assisted development tooling well, with a point of view on how it changes team output and code quality standards.
• Payments, billing, or identity and authentication systems.
• Microservices and event-driven architectures.

Company Culture & Perks

• Topstep is an engaging working environment that ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration by keeping cameras on during meetings and maintaining a robust Slack environment for communication.
• Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is front-loaded.
• Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance are offered for full-time employees.
• Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness.