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Software Engineer - Low Touch Desk

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-04-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance trading systems and algorithms for electronic trading platforms.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (low-latency financial systems)

Builds

Low-latency order routing, algorithmic strategies, smart order logic, and direct market access

Domain

Financial markets / Algorithmic trading

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, Python, C++, Linux, FIX and binary protocols, low-latency multi-threaded programming, distributed application architecture, relational databases (Oracle, Postgres), performance optimization

Preferred skills

publish/subscribe multicast protocols, unit test development, containerization (Docker)

Responsibilities

Enhance existing core system components, design and deploy system enhancements, build highly available horizontally scalable applications, collaborate with stakeholders to define and deliver new features

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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