Infrastructure Engineer

| Chicago | Hybrid
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What We Do and What You'll Do:

The tastytrade family of companies (tastytrade, tastyworks, dough, the quiet foundation, and The Small Exchange) empowers individual investors by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, innovative derivatives products, and portfolio guidance. The diversity of our offerings and the technology which powers them provides our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly-available, and performant systems. Our team is lean at roughly 25 members and we follow a management philosophy which values the autonomy of our engineers.

At tastytrade | tastyworks, you’ll be part of a small team of engineers who are ultimately responsible for the production infrastructure which powers our retail brokerage business. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the customer-facing applications we build. 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 maintain this infrastructure by working on existing configuration management code and troubleshooting the unexpected. You'll work on building its future state by participating in the architectural discussions, building proof of concept systems, writing new configuration management code and standing up new production systems.

Our infrastructure is a hybrid of self-hosted hardware at multiple colocation facilities and cloud-managed services. We are currently heavily invested in Chef and Terraform as our management tools of choice but are also consistently evaluating new technology.

The markets are open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week and our customers are trading throughout.  We engineer for durability, but if you're looking at this job posting you realize that occasional outages do occur. The infrastructure and development teams work together to troubleshoot these issues and as such, there is a very occasional off-hours component to this job.

  

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Use configuration management tools (primarily Chef and Terraform) to build and maintain a hybrid infrastructure hosted both at colocation facilities and in the public cloud.
  • Work directly with the development team to build supporting infrastructure for specific new application functionality.
  • Run proof of concept projects on early stage infrastructure improvements to validate the feasibility of an approach, evaluate performance, and spike an implementation.
  • Manage a curated set of open source tools (PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) via both configuration management tools and direct troubleshooting when required.
  • Manage telemetry (graphite, grafana, collectd, prometheus), log aggregation (Elastic Stack) and monitoring tools (Sensu) via both configuration management tools and direct troubleshooting when required.
  • We're a mandatory peer review organization and you'll be expected to include reasonable testing (inspec / chefspec) in all of your work.
  • Help to maintain existing build / deploy pipelines for both configuration management and application development (we are currently leveraging Jenkins).
  • Implement security initiatives and follow security best practices.

 

Prerequisites: 

  • Experience with declarative configuration management tool(s) like Chef, Salt, Puppet or Terraform.
  • You should enjoy or at least be comfortable working with critical production systems where real revenue is at stake.
  • You must be able to work as a part of a team, both giving feedback to more junior team members and taking direction from more senior team members.
  • You must be able to make good critical decisions balancing technology, frameworks, strategy and practical constraints.
  • You must be able to learn quickly in areas where you don't have deep expertise.

 

Extras: 

  • Daily catered lunch
  • Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Park-like roof with games and herb garden
  • In-building gym
  • Monthly dev outings (e.g. escape rooms, movie nights, axe-throwing, laser tag, bowling, etc.) 
  • Located in the West Loop--Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars

 

Environment: 

We are an entrepreneurial, flat organization which values transparency, productivity and the ability to self-manage our work and business.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex. Nothing in our job postings or descriptions should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
    • C++Languages
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • SwiftLanguages
    • Objective-CLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • Ember.jsFrameworks
    • KubernetesFrameworks
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • TerraformFrameworks
    • React NativeFrameworks
    • AkkaFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • CouchbaseDatabases
    • DynamoDBDatabases
    • GitHubServices

Location

Rich with restaurants and culture, Fulton Market, once a meatpacking district, now exists as one of the hottest neighborhoods for tech companies.

An Insider's view of IGNA | tasty

What’s the vibe like in the office?

We’re in a fast-paced industry, but no matter how busy people get, no one’s ever too busy to help a colleague out. We’re surrounded by smart, driven people and the collaboration amongst the teams is the reason why we are constantly growing. Plus, there’s free food and puppies to get you through the day!

Mo

Project Manager

How does the company support your career growth?

Because we're on a relatively small team, I feel I'm able to make more of an impact. I often see features I've worked on reflected on the platform in real time: Something that's incredibly satisfying. And best of all, I get to learn from ridiculously talented senior engineers who have become not only mentors, but also close friends.

Div

Senior Software Developer

How does your team reward individual success?

I've been privileged to be involved with tastytrade since its launch and I'm constantly amazed at our growth and what we continue to accomplish as a group. New ideas are encouraged which keeps everything fresh and exciting on a daily basis, which I think is extremely rare in the financial industry.

Robyn

Trade Desk

What are IGNA | tasty Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
This year, our employees Vonetta and Tracy helped raise money for Chicago Reads, a program to send every child home with a book to read this summer!
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Day off for your birthday
Hybrid work model
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Our employee assistance program provides support on stress management, dependent/elder care, fitness, and legal and financial issues.
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Our employee assistance program provides employees and their families with counseling services (general, bereavement, tobacco cessation).
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
tastytrade offers pre-tax commuter benefits for all employees (both public transport and rideshare).
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free lunch in-office!
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Our engineering team hosts a mentorship program for younger or newer additions to the team.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available

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