Jobs at Chicago Trading Company

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.

Build and operate large-scale data ingestion pipelines powering research and trading platforms. Own pipeline quality, reliability, performance, and data health; collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and data owners; optimize compute, storage, and SLAs; migrate pipelines to modern platforms; and implement tools to detect and resolve source-data quality issues.

Build and integrate LLM-based agents, coding tools, model infrastructure, and role-specific AI interfaces for engineers, quants, and traders. Develop inference, configuration, integrations, tracing, and access controls; improve system reliability and performance; prototype applications for research, simulation, and trading; and collaborate with users to prioritize solutions.

Lead a team developing high-performance C++ delta trading systems, including valuation, execution, and post-trade infrastructure. Drive architecture, technical design, testing, optimization, and operational safety while collaborating with traders, quants, and technologists. Mentor engineers, manage concurrent projects, prioritize initiatives, and resolve production issues. The role requires expertise in low-level systems, computer architecture, networking, multithreaded and distributed systems, and performant software engineering; trading industry experience and people management are preferred.

Coordinates end-to-end interview scheduling and logistics for experienced hires across multiple business lines. Supports candidates throughout the recruiting process, partners with recruiters on pipeline and requisition tracking, maintains ATS data integrity, and generates recruiting metrics. Assists with offers, background checks, and onboarding handoffs while identifying process improvements. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, proactive communication, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced talent acquisition environment.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance trading systems and algorithms, requiring at least 4 years of software development experience.

Develop high-performance, low-latency trading systems for options market making, collaborating with traders and quants to enhance performance and trading infrastructure.

The Equities Research Analyst is responsible for analyzing the impact of various events on options pricing, conducting fundamental analysis, and developing tools to identify opportunities in equity markets in a fast-paced trading environment.

Lead quantitative research, driving revenue and trading capabilities through collaboration with trading and technology, and applying rigorous scientific methods to solve business problems.

The Quantitative Researcher will analyze market data to build models and drive innovation in trading strategies, collaborating with traders and engineers.

Partner with traders, quants, and technologists to architect high-performance full-stack solutions, triage and resolve issues, reuse platform services, participate in design and code reviews, and stay current on product and technology trends.

Process semi-monthly US payroll for 600+ employees and expats; review UK and Netherlands payroll and pension submissions; assist with federal, state, and local tax filings; respond to employee and external payroll inquiries; implement process improvements and controls; partner with Accounting and Tax for reconciliations, audits, and reporting.

Provide live production support for trading systems: troubleshoot outages, monitor environments, automate workflows with Linux/Python/Bash, coordinate with traders and developers, own incident response, and improve runbooks and processes.

The Senior FPGA Engineer will design, implement, and improve ultra-low-latency trading systems, collaborating with various teams to enhance performance and scalability.

Full-cycle technical recruiter supporting technology hiring at a prop trading firm. Build proactive sourcing pipelines, partner with hiring managers, lead interview calibration, manage candidate experience from outreach through offers, use technical assessment tools, and incorporate AI into recruiting. Collaborate closely with HR partners and contribute to team-wide initiatives and market intelligence.

The Senior Quantitative Researcher will lead alpha research, develop predictive signals and models, analyze performance, collaborate with traders and engineers, and mentor junior researchers.