Jobs in Chicago

Harvey NashChicagohybrid$240,000–$250,000 / year

Design and evolve resilient, low-latency trading networks across data centers, colocation facilities, exchange connectivity environments, and cloud platforms, while leading architecture, performance validation, and majo…

Acquire MeChicagoon-site$250,000–$350,000 / year

Own and improve the performance, reliability, deployment, and management of a large Linux environment supporting trading and development teams. Investigate complex systems issues, build automation, influence infrastruct…

Fintal PartnersChicagoon-site$300,000–$500,000 / year

Design and develop low-latency, high-performance trading systems, optimizing production code for speed and throughput. Build software to interface with hardware such as ASICs and FPGAs, collaborate with hardware and cro…

Fintal PartnersChicagoon-site$300,000–$500,000 / year

Build and maintain systems that connect quantitative research with production trading, including realistic simulation and backtesting infrastructure that accounts for latency, market microstructure, and real-world const…

talismanChicagoon-site

Build and maintain high-performance distributed systems for real-time and historical market data, and develop low-latency C++ components for trading infrastructure, execution, and order handling. Collaborate with trader…

Hunter BondChicagohybrid$250,000–$250,000 / year

Design, build, test, and maintain data-intensive desktop applications and reusable libraries using C# and modern .NET for options trading. Own software across its lifecycle and improve the reliability and performance of…

NinjaTraderChicagoon-site$127,200–$254,400 / year

Design, develop, and optimize Scala-based trading services and lead architectural work to improve the scalability, performance, and reliability of 24/7 trading infrastructure. Mentor engineers, collaborate across teams,…

Edgehog TradingChicagoon-site$150,000–$175,000 / year

Design, implement, and optimize low-latency C++ applications for trading strategy execution. Collaborate with traders to translate ideas into production-ready systems and rewrite complex Java applications into C++. Requ…

Old MissionChicagoon-site$150,000–$200,000 / year

Deploy, operate, and monitor latency-sensitive trading applications, automate infrastructure and application management in Python, and resolve live incidents. Build monitoring and alerting, troubleshoot systems with eng…

Selby JenningsChicagoon-site$180,000–$800,000 / year

Design and develop high-performance, low-latency C++ applications and scalable systems for real-time market data and fast trade execution. Improve performance across the trading technology stack and collaborate with tra…

Venture SearchChicagoon-site

Build and maintain research pipelines and tools for data sampling, quantitative analysis, simulation, backtesting, and post-trade analysis. Integrate systematic strategies into production trading platforms and develop a…

CPS, Inc.Chicagoon-site

Join a proprietary trading firm as an FPGA Engineer, contributing to technology used in global securities markets. Help improve performance and develop innovative approaches to existing challenges. The posting does not…

Thurn PartnersChicagoon-site

Build and maintain high-performance options pricing, risk, research, simulation, and backtesting systems in C++ and Python, translating quantitative models into reliable production code. Collaborate with quantitative re…

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent BusinessChicagoon-site$500,000–$1,000,000 / year

Build and optimize high-performance, low-latency C++ systems, addressing challenges in concurrency, multithreading, memory management, and hardware-level efficiency. Design robust, scalable systems where speed and relia…

FionicsChicagoremote$150,000–$800,000 / year

Build trading systems and market data infrastructure, along with platforms and tools for quantitative research. Optimize performance-critical financial applications. Requires at least 2 years of software engineering exp…

MA CAPITAL U.S. LLCChicagoon-site

Build and support research tools and pipelines for data sampling, quantitative analysis, simulation, backtesting, and post-trade analysis. Integrate systematic strategies into production and develop and maintain low-lat…

MA CapitalChicagoon-site

Develop and maintain low-latency trading execution systems and integrate quantitative systematic strategies into the production platform. Build and support research infrastructure, including tools for data sampling, sim…

Branch TechChicagoon-site

Develop, implement, and optimize production-quality FPGA systems for market-data processing, packet decoding, order execution, and trading infrastructure. Verify and debug hardware, perform synthesis and timing closure,…

OptiverChicagoon-site$200,000–$200,000 / year

Engineers will build and maintain end-to-end trading systems, including real-time execution infrastructure, simulation platforms, and data-driven strategy tools. You will collaborate directly with traders and researcher…

OP RecruitingChicagohybrid

Design and optimize ultra-low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed services and data pipelines that process live market updates, positions, and portfolio risk at very high throughput. Collaborate with quantitative resear…