{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"2d8467e3ffd50ec790328234","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2d8467e3ffd50ec790328234","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2d8467e3ffd50ec790328234","title":"Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - API","description":"#WeAreTradeStation\nRemote Position - must reside Florida, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah or Wisconsin\nWho We Are:\nTradeStation is the home of those born to trade. As an online brokerage firm and trading ecosystem, we are focused on delivering the ultimate trading experience for active traders and institutions. We continuously push the boundaries of what's possible, encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and relentlessly search for like-minded innovators.\nAt TradeStation, we are building an AI-First culture. We expect team members to embrace AI as a core part of their daily workflow, whether that’s using AI to accelerate development, enhance decision-making, improve client outcomes, or streamline internal processes. We hire, grow, and promote people who can harness AI responsibly and creatively. We treat AI as a partner in problem-solving, not just a tool; following our governance standards to ensure AI is used ethically, securely, and transparently. If you join us, you’re joining a culture where AI is how we work.\nAre you ready to make yourself at home?\nWhat We Are Looking For:\nWe are looking for a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead the build-out of TradeStation's next-generation API platform. This is a pivotal role: our APIs are the front door for every client application, third-party integration, and AI-powered experience we deliver. This role will own the strategy and execution to establish TradeStation as the leader in trading APIs — creating the developer experience that drives adoption, increases trade revenue, and enables an ecosystem of innovators to build on our platform.\nThe team will design, build, and operate API products spanning REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and emerging protocols like MCP (Model Context Protocol) to power AI agents and agentic workflows. Internally, this role will drive the adoption of gRPC as our high-performance service communication standard. Externally, this role will champion a world-class developer experience — from API design and documentation to SDKs, sandbox environments, and developer portal capabilities. This Sr. Manager will partner closely with Product Management, who owns the product roadmap and prioritization, while the Sr. Manager owns the technical vision, architecture, and engineering execution.\nThe Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, will work with group Architects and cross-functional partners to drive technical innovation and optimize your team's performance in a fast-moving business and technical environment. This role will provide leadership for Technical Leads and software development teams, participate in technology management planning sessions, coordinate execution with the enterprise architecture vision, and communicate with executive leadership. The successful candidate will develop a deep understanding of API consumers — both internal teams and external developers — to drive design decisions, execute product roadmaps, and act as the evangelist for TradeStation's API platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape a critical growth vector for the company while leading a talented group of highly dedicated engineers.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nServe as an inspirational and outcome-driven leader — execution and follow-up is everything\nOwn the technical strategy and technical roadmap for TradeStation's API platform, spanning REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and AI-native protocols (MCP), partnering with Product Management on product strategy and prioritization\nDrive API-first design principles across the organization, ensuring consistency, discoverability, and developer ergonomics across all API surfaces\nFoster a developer-experience (DX) mindset: treat external and internal API consumers as customers, obsess over documentation quality, onboarding friction, and time-to-first-call\nLead the adoption of gRPC as the internal high-performance service protocol, establishing patterns, tooling, and best practices for teams across the organization\nDefine and enforce API governance standards including versioning, deprecation policies, rate limiting, authentication/authorization patterns, and SLA management\nCollaborate closely with Product Management, Business, and executive stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical execution plans that drive trade revenue and platform adoption\nManage cloud-native infrastructure strategy on AWS and Kubernetes, optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency\nChampion psychological safety within the team environment, modeling it and insisting on it as a core value\nSelect, assess, develop, mentor, manage, and retain top technical talent\nEffectively manage people, including planning, assigning, and directing work; evaluating performance, addressing complaints, and resolving problems\nEnsure knowledge sharing among the team to avoid information silos and address key-staff risks\nContinuously refine development processes to improve overall performance and reduce friction to delivery\nMange and maintain Agile practices and track team performance based on outcomes\nClear roadblocks for teams to ensure delivery focus\nParticipate in business planning and communicate technical knowledge of vision for both current and future API products\nThe Skills You Bring:\nSuperior understanding and execution of organizational goals and objectives\nStrong presentation skills, excellent written and oral communication skills\nStrong technical depth and raw intellectual ability\nDeep expertise in API design, architecture, and lifecycle management across multiple paradigms (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets)\nStrong understanding of API gateway and management platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and service mesh technologies\nHands-on understanding of Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, and schema-first API design\nStrong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, AWS, Kubernetes, and container orchestration\nSolid understanding of authentication and authorization patterns for APIs (OAuth 2.0, API keys, JWT, mTLS)\nStrong understanding of Agile development methodologies, DevOps, continuous delivery, and related concepts\nExperience with resource allocation and personnel management\nMust be a team player that is assertive, passionate, and goal-oriented\nSolid organization and prioritization skills\nAbility to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to pivot and adapt as needed\nStrong understanding of software design principles and patterns\nExpertise and demonstrated experience in systems design, development, implementation, and deployment processes\nDemonstrated ability to make decisions regarding necessary team size and composition\nStrong pattern recognition abilities to identify abstractions and processes that drive team success\nDevelopment background with proficiency in modern programming languages commonly used for API development (Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node.js, Python); hands-on coding is not required but the ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and review architecture decisions is essential\nExperience in the brokerage or financial services industry, especially building APIs for trading or market data preferred\nExperience designing and operating developer portals, SDKs, and API documentation platforms preferred\nKnowledge of AI/ML integration patterns for APIs, including function-calling interfaces, streaming responses, and agent-to-API communication (e.g., MCP, tool-use protocols) preferred\nExperience with high-throughput, low-latency API systems serving real-time financial data preferred\nUnderstanding of regulatory requirements for API access controls, data distribution, and audit logging in financial services preferred\nTrack record of growing API adoption and measuring developer experience through metrics (TTFB, error rates, adoption funnels) preferred\nExperience with infrastructure as code and automating deployments in cloud-native environments preferred\nFamiliarity with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks for distributed API systems preferred\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience\n7+ years of relevant team management and leadership experience in high-performance, business-critical environments\nWhat We Offer:\nCollaborative work environment\nCompetitive Salaries\nYearly bonus\nComprehensive benefits for you and your family starting Day 1\nUnlimited Paid Time Off\nFlexible working environment\nTradeStation Account employee benefits, as well as full access to trading education materials\nPay Range (US) $174-189K (Countries outside of the US have differing ranges in accordance with local labor markets)\nTradeStation provides equal employment opportunities to current and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, disability, handicap, citizenship, veteran or marital status, or any other legally recognized status entitled to protection under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.\n#LI-Remote","company":"Tradestation","rawCompany":"tradestation","city":"Remote","state":"OR","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-05T11:50:18.544Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - API","description":"#WeAreTradeStation\nRemote Position - must reside Florida, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah or Wisconsin\nWho We Are:\nTradeStation is the home of those born to trade. 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