Staff Software Engineer (Events)

About this role

Summary
Are you a systems-minded engineer who thrives on shaping technical direction, mentoring others, and driving impact at scale?


As a
Staff Software Engineer
at Topstep, you will join the Events team and play a pivotal role in shaping the distributed systems that power our trader experience. You will help define and evolve the event-driven architecture that serves as the communication backbone across our platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and clarity as our ecosystem grows. You’ll work across architecture, execution, and product to lead complex, cross-team initiatives from concept to delivery. You’ll define scalable engineering patterns, guide long-term technical direction, and raise the bar for code quality, operational excellence, and team collaboration.


This role is ideal for someone who brings a blend of hands-on execution and high-level vision, someone who’s excited to work across boundaries, challenge assumptions, and push for elegant solutions that scale with intention. Join us and help shape what engineering excellence looks like at Topstep.


Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of complex systems with a long-term, platform-wide perspective.
• Drive high-impact engineering initiatives across teams, aligning architecture with business and product strategy.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify technical opportunities, surface trade-offs, and make clear, strategic decisions.
• Guide cross-functional delivery efforts—setting direction, unblocking teams, and ensuring consistency and quality at scale.
• Invest in reliability, observability, and scalability across systems to enable faster iteration and resilient experiences.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and help grow the technical leadership bench within the team.
• Champion clarity in communication, technical writing, and cross-team collaboration.
• Contribute to the culture of engineering at Topstep through thought leadership, shared practices, a...