Quantitative Software Engineer — Trading Systems (Chicago)

Wolverine Trading, LLC; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous PTO & flexible scheduling

401K and Roth 401K

Profit sharing

On-site gym

Job summary

Wolverine Trading, LLC in Chicago, IL is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Technology department. You will contribute to market-leading options valuation, risk management, and trading infrastructure through full-stack development and collaboration with traders and quants.

You’ll work with C#, Java, or C++ on real-time systems, analyze data with SQL, Pandas, and Jupyter, and help design scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience coding in object-oriented languages such as C#, Java, or C++.
• Strong mathematical and statistical background with quantitative intuition.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas to traders and analysts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Engage in full cycle development of options valuation and risk systems.
• Collaborate with traders, risk managers, and quants to improve pricing and risk tooling.
• Gather requirements, design solutions, review code, and deliver on schedule.
• Troubleshoot complex issues raised by trading and support teams.
• Provide insights to prioritize work and improve system performance and scalability.
• Document mathematical specs, model assumptions, and test cases.

Skills

C#

Java

C++

Mathematics

Statistics

Tools

SQL

Pandas

Jupyter

Job description

Wolverine Trading, LLC in Chicago, IL is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Technology department. You will contribute to market-leading options valuation, risk management, and trading infrastructure through full-stack development and collaboration with traders and quants.

You’ll work with C#, Java, or C++ on real-time systems, analyze data with SQL, Pandas, and Jupyter, and help design scalable solutions.