Engineering Manager
US$190,000 – US$230,000 / yr base salary
Posted 21 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Engineering Manager, TRM”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Remote
| Base salary | US$190,000 – US$230,000 / yr |
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Summary
Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within TRM Engineering, the organization that builds the products funded traders and our internal teams use every day: the trader-facing web experience, the account and onboarding flows, the payments and payout paths, and the internal tooling the business runs on. This is a technical leadership role, not a coordination role. You'll be accountable for the technical quality of your team's systems, for its delivery cadence and outcomes, and for the health and day-to-day running of the team itself, partnering with senior engineers, Product, Design, QA, and infrastructure partners. Occasional hands-on work is welcome but isn't expected.
Key Responsibilities
- Run the team: set direction and standards, set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed, plan capacity, and shape how it operates day to day.
- Lead and develop the team: run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews; coach engineers toward individualized growth and address performance issues early; build a culture of psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards.
- Own the technical quality of the team’s systems: guide architecture and trade-off decisions, own the application-level technical strategy, evaluate third-party technology and integrations, shape epics across reliability, tooling, and security, and set the team’s technical direction
- Drive reliability and operational excellence: own engineering process (PR and merge policy, ticket hygiene, environment consistency, build and versioning, repo standards); own on-call health and incident follow-through for the team’s services; and own the availability and performance of what the team ships, so production problems turn into prioritized engineering work rather than recurring firefighting.
- Own delivery cadence and outcomes: partner with Product and Design through discovery to shape scope and provide credible estimates; manage capacity, planning, and prioritization across feature delivery, technical investment, and operational reliability; and be accountable for release quality and predictability, not just sprint completion.
- Partner across the org: collaborate as a peer with the team’s senior engineers and peer Engineering Managers, and work with Product, Design, QA, Support, and infrastructure partners; keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs.
- Own the team’s overall health and effectiveness, including how well it works with the teams that depend on it and the teams it depends on.