
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.
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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

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.
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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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