Company Name: tastytrade

As a Mobile Engineering Manager at tastytrade, you’ll be part of the team that builds out the retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the experience our customer-facing applications create. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance. 

You’ll help to create an environment for our engineers to succeed by providing mentorship, meeting with stakeholders, contributing to our culture, and ensuring team efficiency and growth. We have a native Android app for the phone form factor, and native iOS applications for both iPhone and iPad. Our codebase includes a transpiled Java library which handles interactions with the tastytrade API and provides common functionality across our customer-facing trading platforms.

What You’ll Do: 

Ensure that our mobile team rapidly delivers new features and improvements in the tastytrade client trading applications while maintaining stability and quality. You’ll work closely with our product management team to organize, identify, and assign work based on priority and importance. 

Technical Leadership 

  • Serve as a technical leader for the mobile team in partnership with our engineering managers and engineering leadership as well as managing individual contributors. 
  • Drive the continued development of long-term technical strategy for mobile and broader front-end developer experience. 
  • Establish technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch solutions. 
  • Balance engineering time between new features and foundational improvements (architecture, CI/CD, automated testing and release management strategy). 
  • Increase engineer quality of life and enablement through process improvement and tooling. 
  • Interact directly with the tastytrade business and product teams to capture and translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code. 
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical initiatives and decisions. 

Hands-on Development 

  • You’ll be expected to take point on complex engineering challenges and provide guidance for the mobile team. 
  • Foster high-quality software development through code reviews and pair-programming. 
  • Participate in coding, debugging, and optimization tasks. 
  • Build efficient, reliable, performant, and scalable solutions. 
  • Prototype new technologies and systems when needed to unblock the team. 

Mentorship & Leadership 

  • Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors. 
  • Hold regular 1:1s and provide clear feedback around individual performance. 
  • Draft, maintain, and deliver on quarterly OKRs and team goals. 
  • Ensure individual goals are aligned with broader technology strategy, business strategy, and individual career development 
  • Take responsibility for the performance of your team and the development of its individual members 
  • Promote active involvement in building and evolving of tastytrade engineering culture 
  • Partner with talent acquisition to improve hiring processes and fill team vacancies 
  • Engage with other managers and technical leaders to ensure healthy communication, engineering concerns, and to create an environment where top level engineering talent wants to work 

Innovation 

  • Identify opportunities impacting native product developers through business understanding. 
  • Innovate and improve current solutions while building new capabilities. 
  • Apply data-driven approach to measuring developer productivity and effectiveness. 
  • Contribute to engineering best practices and standards. 

Who You Are:  

  • Experience managing hybrid (remote and in-person) teams of 5-15 people. 
  • A firm understanding of modern software engineering practices, languages, frameworks, and common technologies. 
  • For this role, you’ll need a strong understanding of either the Android platform (using Java/Kotlin) or the iOS platform (using Swift/Objective C), along with a foundational knowledge of the other platform. General knowledge of Java is also beneficial. 
  • The ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders in simple language. 
  • 4+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer manager and 10+ years of experience as a software engineer. 
  • The ability to jump in and assist with technical challenges. 
  • A proven track record of team leadership including the ability to rapidly deliver both changes to existing production systems and greenfield efforts. 
  • Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals. 

Nice to Haves 

  • Experience with trading, ideally derivatives. 
  • Experience in a regulated industry such as financial services, healthcare, or similar. 
  • Experience with cross-platform development using a toolkit like Kotlin Multiplatform, React Native, or similar. 

Team Perks:  

  • Performance Bonuses  
  • Stock Purchase Options  
  • 401k Plan  
  • 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  
  • CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra  
  • Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars 

About Us: 
The tasty house of brands empowers individual traders differently. tastylive, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network, tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer. In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc. (previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years. Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience. This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.     

Our dream is simple: we want more people to find more success with a better trading experience. That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.    

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

tastytrade | tastylive  | tastyfx  
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!   

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