Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Topstep is a company focused on building innovative trading solutions, and they are seeking an Engineering Team Lead to manage a team of mobile engineers. In this hands-on leadership role, you will be responsible for developing their mobile trading platform using React Native while mentoring your team and collaborating with various departments to enhance mobile experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a team of mobile engineers building React Native applications across iOS and Android
- Remain deeply hands-on in development, contributing directly to architecture, implementation, code reviews, debugging, and releases
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences aligned with business priorities
- Help establish scalable mobile engineering practices including component patterns, testing strategies, release processes, and code quality standards
- Own delivery execution for the mobile team, balancing speed, quality, and technical sustainability
- Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback, career development conversations, and technical guidance
- Support hiring efforts and help grow the mobile engineering organization over time
- Contribute to technical direction for React Native architecture, state management, API integration patterns, and application performance
- Help create a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and customer impact
- Drive operational excellence around mobile releases, monitoring, crash reporting, and production support
- Collaborate across teams to advocate for mobile-first thinking and ensure backend/platform decisions support mobile scalability and performance
Skills
- 5 + years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience building production mobile applications
- 1-2 years of direct engineering management or team leadership experience
- Strong hands-on experience with React Native and modern mobile application development practices
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript fundamentals, including React patterns, hooks, component composition, and state management
- Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server-schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization
- Experience shipping and maintaining applications in both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store
- Experience integrating APIs using GraphQL, Apollo Client, REST, or similar technologies
- Familiarity with mobile architecture concepts including navigation, state management, reusable components, and performance optimization
- Experience with mobile testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Understanding of mobile CI/CD workflows, release management, TestFlight, and Play Store deployment processes
- Comfortable balancing technical leadership with people leadership responsibilities
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design teams
- Ability to provide clear technical direction while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused
- Experience participating in hiring, interviewing, onboarding, or team growth initiatives
- Experience building fintech, trading, or real-time data applications
- Familiarity with WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions, or other real-time communication technologies
- Experience with native iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) development
- Familiarity with crash reporting and observability tooling such as Sentry or Crashlytics
- Experience with mobile analytics, feature flags, or remote configuration platforms
- Exposure to mobile security best practices including secure authentication and token storage
- Experience building reusable component libraries or contributing to design systems
- Prior experience helping scale engineering teams or processes in a high-growth environment
Benefits
- Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid.
- Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave.
- Paid time off is front-loaded.
- Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance is offered for full time employees.
- Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days.
- Employee referrals are bonused.
- Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness.
- Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
Company Overview
Topstep is a financial organization that enables resource traders to develop and learn in the trading industry. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.topstep.com.