Senior Software Engineer, TRM

The role

You will build trader-facing web experiences, account flows, payments, and internal tooling. You will work primarily in TypeScript across Node.js and React to build cloud-native applications on AWS.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate full stack features end to end
• Partner with Product and Design during discovery to shape scope and provide estimates
• Write technical designs and guide architecture decisions
• Build automated testing, observability, and operational ownership
• Raise the team's engineering bar through code review and mentoring
• Identify and resolve issues across the stack
• Participate in the on-call rotation and incident follow-through
• Use AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs
• Backend development in TypeScript and Node.js with REST or GraphQL API design
• Frontend development in React and Next.js
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and concurrency and race-condition handling
• Database fundamentals with PostgreSQL or SQL Server including schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization
• Production mindset including metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end ownership
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Background in financial technology or highly regulated spaces
• Practical expertise with payment gateways, billing infrastructures, or authentication and user identity services
• Hands-on familiarity with AWS services, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern deployment pipelines using Argo CD or GitHub Actions
• Proven capability leveraging AI developer tooling effectively
• Track record of delivering high-scale, end-user applications

Benefits

• Holidays provided in accordance with applicable provincial minimum employment standards legislation
• Paid time off is front-loaded
• Competitive RRSP matching
• health, dental, and vision insurance
• Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days
• Employee referrals are bonused
• Food and groceries budget
• Contributes towards health and wellness

Before you apply

• immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

About the company

Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid. They foster a culture of collaboration with cameras on during meetings and a robust Slack environment.