Chicago Trading Company Benefits Overview

Lead a team responsible for CTC’s developer experience platform, including build systems, CI pipelines, remote caching and execution, test policy, and pipeline performance. Consolidate fragmented codebases into a Bazel-based monorepo while supporting daily releases of live trading systems. Remain hands-on, measure platform improvements, remove migration barriers, and optimize build reliability, speed, and cost for engineers, quants, and traders.

Supports live trading systems by troubleshooting incidents, monitoring production environments, diagnosing anomalies, automating workflows with Linux, Python, and Bash, and coordinating with traders and developers. The role owns incident response, patching, recovery, documentation, stakeholder communications, and continuous process improvements to maintain reliable trading operations.

Build and operate research, backtesting, data, and execution infrastructure for quantitative researchers and traders. Responsibilities include productionizing research prototypes, maintaining shared datasets, optimizing numerical code, migrating pipelines to modern platforms, and developing model evaluation tools. The role requires strong Python, C++, statistics, software design, and scalable data pipeline experience, with preferred exposure to options trading, cloud or HPC platforms, Apache Iceberg, and high-volume market data.