CCTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn logo

CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn

Financial Services · 788 people

Experienced Software Engineer - US

Posted 14 Oct

What’s this role about? Design, develop, and maintain high-performance trading systems and algorithms. Focus on utilizing C++, Python, and Java to support systematic trading strategies.

Chicago, Illinois
Hybrid
$145K – $225K
Full-time
2-5 years exp
425 S Financial Pl, 4th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60605
Bachelor degree

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Company

About CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.  Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology.  For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient.

CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn

CCTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn logo
501-1,000 employees
Financial Services
1995
Privately Held
37k LinkedIn followers

Responsibilities

  • algorithms, utilizing languages such as C++, Python, and Java
  • Minimum of 4 years working experience in software development, preferably
  • within a large distributed computing or systematic trading environment
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or quantitative field
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting quickly to
  • changing priorities and demonstrating flexibility in handling various tasks
  • and projects
  • Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace
  • model, subject to change based on business need.

Qualification

SoftwareTechnologyFinance & AccountingEngineeringData & Analytics

Benefits

  • We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we
  • offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally.
  • These benefits include generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental
  • leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness
  • reimbursement, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best
  • employee experience.
  • (Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)

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