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# Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team at tastylive

- **Company:** tastylive
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tastylive/jobs/6162348004

## Job description

Company Name: tastytrade

Role: Staff Software Engineer, Order Handling and Ledger Team

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid (3 days/week in office)

About the Role:

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

At tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds our retail brokerage business. We care about the speed and stability of our backend systems. Our architecture evolves continually as the business grows and new technical challenges emerge, always with a focus on practicality and performance.

What You'll Do:

- Design, build, and own the backend systems behind our order handling, ledger, and settlement flows
- Partner with product to scope features, build implementation plans, and oversee execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Provide technical leadership across the team, both by leading project teams and by mentoring more junior engineers
- Deliver concise, constructive, and thoughtful code reviews covering design and quality, business-domain correctness, stability, and performance
- Monitor the external technology landscape and experiment with new tools to solve hard problems or improve the quality of existing solutions
- Define engineering-wide standards and guidance, and be the person colleagues across the organization seek out for critical work and decisions
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, collaborating with team members and stakeholders
- Share ownership of production by participating in on-call and treating operability as a design requirement

Who You are:

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time as a technical lead and mentor
- Deep expertise in building backend systems, with a strong grasp of concepts such as idempotency, transactions, concurrency control, and reliable communication between services
- Mastery of at least one language and framework, and the ability to jump into a brand-new one and quickly become productive following its best practices
- Quick to absorb new information and become conversant in unfamiliar concepts and technology, with the humility to acknowledge honestly when you're out of your depth
- Pragmatic in your use of AI for research, planning, coding, and code review
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to work from loose concepts
- A structured thinker who sees the big picture and balances short-term needs with long-term goals
- Self-motivated and biased toward action, with the ability to set priorities and execute in a fast-paced environment
- Precise in your attention to detail, with high-quality standards
- An exceptional written and verbal communicator, skilled at distilling complex material into straightforward language that everyone in our business can understand
- A track record of building and managing relationships with technical teams, stakeholders, and external partners

Preferred Requirements:

- Professional experience with Ruby, or with other parts of our stack, such as PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ
- Experience with ledgers, settlement, payments, banking, or another domain where money moves and must balance

Base Salary Range: $180,000-$230,000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications.

Discretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

## About IGNA + tasty

IG North America is home to tastytrade, tastylive & tastyfx—a family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof.

From our headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market, our team builds award-winning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading, with tastylive providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US. tastycrypto provides self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance.

We're a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact. Whether you're building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, you'll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users. The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG|tasty – the future gets built here.

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.

[tastytrade](https://tastytrade.com/) | [tastylive](https://www.tastylive.com/)  | [tastyfx](https://www.tastyfx.com/) 1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607

*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

## About tastylive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: tastylive is a financial network and media company that provides live, educational content and analysis for options and futures trading.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Total Funding: $47M, Series C in 2018)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 (as tastylive; the broader tastytrade ecosystem has earlier roots)
- **Founders**: Tom Sosnoff

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Financial Media, Fintech
- Target customers: B2C retail investors and traders, primarily focused on options and futures derivatives trading
- Mission or purpose statement: To make investing fun and provide actionable, educational market talk to individual investors.

## Products & Services
- **tastylive (Network/Media)**: A live, daily financial network broadcasting 8 hours of market talk during market hours (7:00am CT). Shows include *Market Measures*, *Good Trade Bad Trade*, and *Bootstrapping in America*.
- **tastytrade (Brokerage)**: A retail brokerage subsidiary providing professional-grade technology for trading equities, equity options, futures, and futures options at industry-leading prices. (Wholly owned subsidiary of tastytrade, part of the same family).
- **tastyworks (Trading Platform)**: The platform and tools for trading derivatives.
- **The Small Exchange**: Retail-accessible futures products.
- **Quiet Foundation**: A free investment advisory service.
- **dough**: A content-filled, easy-to-use stock-trading app.
- **luckbox**: A monthly print and digital financial magazine.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $47.0M (Series C led by TCV in 2018).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TCV (lead investor, Series C).
- **Growth Signals**: Part of a broader family of companies (tastytrade, tastyworks, Small Exchange) that serve the full lifecycle of an individual investor. Headcount is 50 employees, though down ~19.5% YoY.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Ecosystem**: Offers a unique, vertically integrated suite of services: a live financial network (tastylive), a brokerage (tastytrade), a trading platform (tastyworks), and educational content (dough, luckbox).
- **Founder-Led & Experienced**: Led by Tom Sosnoff, a veteran with decades of experience in the financial industry, having previously co-founded thinkorswim.
- **Educational Focus**: Strong emphasis on making complex derivatives trading accessible and understandable through live, entertaining content.
- **Community & Brand**: Cult-like following among retail options traders, built on a transparent, "no-BS" approach to market analysis.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening the Vertical**: Continuing to fill the financial vertical with products for every stage of the investor journey (education, analysis, brokerage, advisory).
- **Digital Asset Expansion**: The company has a Head of Digital Assets, indicating a strategic push into cryptocurrency and digital asset-related trading products and content.
- **Global Reach**: Presence in Bangladesh and Italy, with a Lead of Chinese Market Development, suggesting a focus on international market expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative, innovative, and transparent. Employee reviews on LinkedIn rate the culture at 4.6/5.0.
- **Work-Life Balance**: Rated highly by employees at 4.7/5.0.
- **Compensation & Career**: Compensation rated 4.5/5.0, Career opportunities rated 4.4/5.0.
- **Work Model**: In-Office. All jobs listed are based at the Chicago HQ (1330 W Fulton Market, #620, Chicago, IL 60607).
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of finance and media, with a direct impact on products used by a passionate trading community. Tech stack includes Python, React, Ruby, Java, and modern tools (Salesforce, Workday, Slack, etc.).

## Sources
1. [tastylive Careers Page](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tastylive)
2. [tastylive Official Website](https://www.tastylive.com/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tastyliveshow)
4. [Built In Chicago Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/tastylive)
5. [tastylive Contact Page](https://www.tastylive.com/contact-us)

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