Wolverine Trading Career Growth & Development

How does your engineering team create opportunities for engineers to learn from one another and strengthen their technical skills?

Making markets is a deep problem space. As such, there is no shortage of opportunity for newly hired engineers to become experts in specific details. When joining the market-making group, I identified a gap in how we recorded critical-path performance metrics. With guidance from more senior engineers at the firm, I implemented a high-performance tracing library that is now widely used and continues to be improved upon. It’s one example where engineers at Wolverine are encouraged to identify, discuss, implement and share solutions across the organization. Engineering leadership believes strongly in this style of diving into problems and sharing work for everyone’s benefit.

What is one recent technical challenge, new technology or knowledge-sharing experience that helped you grow as an engineer?

Right now, my primary responsibility at Wolverine is implementing systems for consuming real-time market data. It’s a challenging problem space. The sheer amount of data, as well as the correctness and latency requirements make it a great environment to grow. Recently, I applied lessons from this work to modernize our firm’s primary multicast technology stack. As part of this effort, I’m learning how to effectively help coworkers migrate their systems. It’s both motivating to see my work improve performance and interesting to gain familiarity with the various projects at Wolverine.

How does Wolverine Trading encourage engineers to share knowledge with teammates or participate in the broader engineering community?

Wolverine puts a high emphasis on knowledge-sharing. When joining the firm, new engineers are paired with two mentors: one intra-team and one cross-team. Additionally, all new hires are invited to an options trading course that teaches the fundamentals of market-making. Beyond onboarding, engineers across the market-making group meet regularly to discuss firmwide priorities.