Software Engineer - Performance

Application Deadline: 11 July 2025

Department: Engineering

Location: Chicago

Description

We are currently seeking a self-motivated, creative and talented Software Engineer who will thrive on exposing issues and improving the quality of our state of the art trading applications. In this role, you will be constantly challenged to understand complex trading strategies, uncover software issues in our trading platform through a combination of testing, automation, and capacity planning that will help enhance our end user experience.

What Will You Be Involved With?

What you can expect during the initial training period (anticipated 3-6 months – the length of the training period might vary depending on the candidate).

1. Work closely with the performance team to learn how our tools, automation and process are integrated into the SDLC.
2. Gain an understanding of the entire trading system.
3. Assist in reproducing, investigating and debugging performance issues in coordination with other development teams.
4. Learn the entire trading system end to end. As a Software Engineer on the performance team you will work on the entire platform vs. a single component with an initial focus around front end performance.
5. Gain understanding of our development process and begin bug fix and feature development of automation related tasks.
6. Become more familiar with networking protocols if you are not already familiar with them as well as how to troubleshoot network related issues.

What you can expect to be responsible for and continually own, after successful completion of the training period.

1. Continue to learn and grow your understanding of the entire TT Trading system and be able to do root cause analysis quicker for any type of issue.
2. Able to support production performance related tickets that come in and determine next steps in resolution if another team needs to get involved.
3. Able to take guidance and create new features and functionality for the performance automation suite of tests.
4. Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
5. Deeper understanding of UDP, TCP and LBM network protocols.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

1. 3-5 years of development experience with Python.
2. Comfortable in a Linux environment.
3. Experience using Selenium or equivalent toolsets.
4. Experience using the Chrome performance API a plus.
5. Familiarity with Javascript is a plus.
6. Familiarity with C++ is a plus.
7. Familiarity with packet analysis tools such as Wireshark and understanding of TCP and UDP protocol is a plus.

What We Bring To The Table

1. Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking.
2. Flexible work schedules – with some remote work.
3. 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, 1 day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during milestone year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents), and backup child and pet care as well as tutoring services.
4. The company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment.
5. Milestone anniversary bonuses.
6. Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums and healthy meal delivery programs).

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company's award-winning TT platform connects to the world's major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world's leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT's technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies' global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies' practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.