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Software Engineer | Market Data Systems

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-07-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, architect, and build high-performance real-time streaming systems that ingest, process, and distribute massive volumes of market data to power trader-facing GUI applications with extremely low latency.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (low-latency market data systems)

Builds

Real-time streaming systems and infrastructure for trader-facing GUIs

Domain

Financial markets / Low-latency trading infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C++, Rust, real-time data pipelines, distributed high-volume data systems, concurrency, memory management, lock-free designs, Linux internals, network programming (TCP/UDP)

Preferred skills

Rust developer community involvement, performance tuning

Technologies

C++, Rust, Linux

Responsibilities

Architect and implement real-time data pipelines, ensure accurate tick-to-trade data delivery, set technical direction, mentor other engineers, debug systems under real-time production load

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship

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