Key Responsibilities
- Core Development: Code day-to-day in C++ within a real-time, multi-threaded, low-latency software architecture.
- System Enhancement: Design and implement complex software for exchange gateways, market data management, and price generation systems.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across various engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions for pricing and order routing.
- Reliability & Performance: Ensure the highest level of system stability and scalability; perform memory management analysis and performance tuning for high-frequency trading conditions.
- Full Lifecycle Ownership: Take ownership of code quality through detailed code reviews, automated unit testing, and integration testing.
- Production Support: Analyze stack traces, core dumps, and incident reports to troubleshoot and propose fixes for existing trading systems during the on call rotas.
- Leadership & Documentation: Write high-level design documents and mentor junior engineers to foster technical growth within the POD.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience: A minimum of 5 years of extensive development experience in C++, ideally utilizing modern standards like C++11 through C++20.
- High-Performance Domain: Proven expertise in building low-latency, high-performance systems, particularly within trading infrastructure or financial market data feeds would be a plus.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep knowledge of multi-threaded and distributed systems, including synchronization, concurrency, and C++ template programming. Working knowledge of core python is a plus
- Industry Knowledge: Strong familiarity with trading industry protocols (e.g., FIX, message framing) and market dynamics would be an asset.
- Tools & Environment: Proficient with Linux and debugging/profiling tools such as GDB, Address Sanitizer, or other performance optimization techniques.
- Versatility: Ability to adapt and contribute to various components including Risk and FA services as required.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication and analytical skills with the ability to collaborate in a fast-paced, agile team environment.
Benefits
- Health & Financial Security:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Time Off & Flexibility:
- Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
- 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
- One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
- Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
- An additional PTO day is added during milestone anniversary years.
- Robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal.
- Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
- Work-Life Support & Resources:
- Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
- Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives.
- Our Culture:
- Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
About
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years development experience in C++ (modern standards C++11 through C++20)
- Deep knowledge of multi-threaded and distributed systems, synchronization, and concurrency
- Proficiency with Linux and debugging/profiling tools (GDB, Address Sanitizer, performance optimization)
- Experience coding in low-latency, high-performance systems or trading infrastructure
- Working knowledge of core Python
- Familiarity with trading industry protocols (e.g., FIX) and market data/message framing
- Ability to analyze stack traces, core dumps, and incident reports; provide production support and participate in on-call rota
- Write high-level design documents and perform detailed code reviews and automated testing
- Excellent communication and ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate across teams
Trading Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Trading Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Trading Technologies.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as competitive, with multiple plan options, discounted premiums, and wellness initiatives such as gym subsidies and healthy meal programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is portrayed as generous, combining substantial PTO, paid holidays, flexible schedules, and added allowances like training days and volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include generous parental leave for primary caregivers, backup care for children, adults, and pets, adoption assistance, and dedicated spaces for new mothers.
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What We Do
Trading Technologies creates professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions for a wide variety of users. Be aware of fraudulent job postings: It has come to our attention that individuals pretending to represent Trading Technologies are posting fake job ads on LinkedIn and possibly other job boards. These individuals conduct candidate interviews via Skype and extend offers, likely with the intent to collect personal information such as banking information, social security number or date of birth. They use a Gmail email address that is not affiliated with Trading Technologies. Only emails using a tradingtechnologies.com or trade.tt email address are authentic. Although we use third party recruiting agencies on a case-by-case basis, all candidates speak with a staff member who has a valid company email address before any offers are extended or personal information collected. Our open positions are posted on BuiltIn and on the Careers page of our website.
Why Work With Us
Cited by Crain's and Built In Chicago as one of Chicago’s best places to work, Trading Technologies is a pioneering financial technology firm that constantly pushes boundaries in the trading industry. TT is a highly collaborative and culture-first organization that fosters an environment of creativity and camaraderie to achieve results.
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