CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
Are you an experienced engineer who is passionate about delivering a high impact platform through well-architected services, strong development practices and durable systems? Do you want to work closely with engineers who will push boundaries of design and scale? CTC is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to join the Platform team! The team is responsible for the design and development of CTC's enterprise platform solutions.
What You’ll Do
As a Software Engineer in the Platform team you will design, implement, curate, and support the adoption of a common set of highly performant C++ libraries and assets used across the enterprise. You will have an opportunity to be a high impact contributor on the firm's use of C++ by developing standards, leading working groups, and collaborating with other C++ experts in the firm.
You must have a broad and deep understanding of software engineering concepts, an expert understanding of modern C++, and excellent communication and collaboration skills. Adaptability, drive for results, attention to detail, analytical skills, and team spirit will be essential attributes for succeeding in this role.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Develop firm-wide standards for C++ asset distribution and management and support the onboarding and adoption of those standards
- Design, develop, curate, and maintain highly efficient and robust C++ libraries used throughout the firm in our high performance trading applications
- Collaborate closely with other teams to understand their requirements, facilitate adoptions, and support them throughout the C++ development process
- Collaborate and facilitate with our C++ user community to develop C++ standards and guidelines
- Contribute to the growth of our platform through code reviews and system reviews, standardizing methodologies and CI/CD tooling
What We’re Looking For
Must-haves
- Expertise designing and developing multi-threaded software applications in modern C++
- Experience building services, shared APIs and tooling on Linux that enable users to meet their goals
- Strong problem solving and analytic capabilities
- A self-starter who can quickly triage issues and drive the resolution effort through completion
- A preference for simple, cohesive, and practical solutions
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work individually or in a team environment
- Highly familiar with at least one modern C++ build and packaging system (e.g. CMake, Conan, hunter, vcpkg)
- Experience with compilation, linker, and other build errors for large, complex systems
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with artifact management solutions (e.g. Artifactory)
- Familiarity with containers (e.g. Docker, Podman)
- Familiarity with Linux utilities for working with libraries (e.g. nm, patchelf, ar, ldd, objdump)
Our 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 medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.