Software Engineer II

Company Name: IG North America
Role: Software Engineer II (Ruby) - Internal Tools Team
Location: Hybrid - Chicago IL (3 days/week in office)

Were building a dedicated team focused on improving operational efficiency and quality of life for our internal teamspeople who are often overlooked in product-driven organizations. Your work will directly impact critical teams like Trade Desk Account Opening Fraud Prevention and Banking Operations by building custom tools for our proprietary systems and integrating smart third-party solutions where appropriate.

Youll be part of a small focused squad working alongside our core brokerage engineering team with a clear mission: reduce friction improve workflows and make employees lives easier.

The work spans interesting technical challengesfrom custom development to systems integration to data workand theres a direct connection between what you build and both employee satisfaction and customer experience. We recognize that internal efficiency drives business results and were investing accordingly.

As a Software Engineer youll help by modifying existing systems taking ownership of current systems contributing to greenfield projects and troubleshooting issues as they arise. Our engineers work in a variety of tools including Ruby Java and JavaScript. Youll work primarily in Ruby but will have opportunities to expand your skill set into areas where you interest and our technology intersect.

What Youll Do:

• Build and maintain Ruby APIs services and systems that reliably and efficiently handle order routing and ledger flows
• Implement technology improvements to enhance security reliability and performance
• Provide guidance and leadership to more junior members of the team when questions arise about language or implementation specifics as well as contributing in a meaningful way to our peer review process
• Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code with lightweight guidance from a senior engineer or team leadership
• Work independently on smaller scope tasks and work under the guidance of a senior engineer to contribute to larger projects
• Write comprehensive tests for your code
• Perform light infrastructure work to support application development work where applicable
• Continue your growth by learning new systems and working towards ownership of tastytrades systems

Who You Are:

• You must be able to learn quickly in areas where you dont have deep expertise.
• Have deep expertise in at least one language or framework dealing with it in a production context
• We expect a Software Engineer to have dabbled in languages frameworks or technologies beyond their expertise.
• Demonstrable professional experience working as a software engineer on a team

Team Perks/Benefits:

• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• 401k Plan
• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits
• Annual educational / conference stipend
• Sustainable workday with minimal on-call responsibilities
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
• 10 Paid Sick Days
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• In-building gym
• Shuttle to/from Metra
• Office located in the West Loop - Chicagos growing center of tech great cuisine and high-end bars

Salary Range: Level II - $146750
The actual salary offered will be based on the candidates level of experience and qualifications

Discretionary performance bonus: 8-12% of base salary based on individual and company performance

About IGNA tasty

IG North America is home totastytradetastylivetastyfx andtastycryptoa family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual in Chicago bythe creators ofthinkorswimacquiredby London-based IG Group in 2021 we combine startup innovation with the backing of a global fintech leader with 50 years of experience.

From our headquarters in Chicagos Fulton Market our team builds award-winning trading platforms produceslive financial educationcontentdaily and creates technology that makes complex markets retail brokerage forself-directed investing and tradingwithtastyliveprovidingcontent to educate our the fastest-growing forex broker in the self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance.

Werea lean collaborative team that values autonomy pragmatism and impact. Whetheryourebuilding technology creating content serving customers or supporting operationsyoullwork 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.

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

tastytrade tastylive tastyfx tastycrypto
1330 W Fulton Market Chicago IL 60607

*Dont 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 youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!