full-time
C++ Senior Engineer - Options Market Making Execution
Chicago Trading Company
- Employer
- Chicago Trading Company
- Location
- Chicago
- Working pattern
- on-site
- Salary
- $200,000–$250,000 / year
About the role
Design and build high-performance, low-latency systems for options market making, collaborating with traders, quantitative researchers, engineers, and partner teams to take ideas from inception to production. Improve execution engines and trading infrastructure for speed, scalability, operational safety, and performance while maintaining robust, well-tested software. Requires at least five years of production experience with modern C++, strong low-level systems programming and optimization skills, and solid fundamentals in computer architecture and networking. Candidates should have experience with multithreaded and distributed systems, write clean performant code, and be able to resolve issues; high-frequency trading experience is preferred.