Software Engineer II

About the Role

We’re building a dedicated team focused on improving operational efficiency and quality of life for our internal teams—people 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.

You’ll 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 challenges—from custom development to systems integration to data work—and there’s a direct connection between what you build and both employee satisfaction and customer experience.

• 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 tastytrade’s systems

• You must be able to learn quickly in areas where you don’t 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

• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• 401k Plan
• 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
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• Shuttle to/from Metra
• Office located in the West Loop – Chicago’s growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high‑end bars

Salary Range
:
Level II – $146,750 (actual salary offered will be based on the candidate’s level of experience and qualifications)

Discretionary Performance Bonus
: 8‑12% of base salary based on individual and company performance

IG North America is home to tastytrade, tasty live, tasty fx, and tasty crypto—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 global fintech leader with 50+ years of experience.

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 tasty live providing content to educate our customers. tasty fx is the fastest‑growing forex broker in the US. tasty crypto 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.

As set forth in tasty live’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.