Senior Software Engineer, Quant Research & Trading Systems

Acquire Me; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me in Chicago is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to transform research ideas into live trading systems. You will join a team building high-performance, distributed infrastructure for backtesting and live execution.

You will work closely with Quant Researchers and Traders to push ideas from simulation to production in a low-latency environment, with a strong ownership model and exceptional compensation potential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience; language agnostic.
• Experience building high-performance, distributed or performance-critical systems.
• Strong technical ownership and engineering judgement.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance research and simulation platforms
• Scale experimentation and backtesting across large market datasets
• Design distributed systems supporting systematic trading strategies
• Build and optimise performance-critical production trading systems
• Develop systems and algorithms involved in pricing and execution
• Partner directly with Quant Researchers and Traders to move ideas into production
• Own complex engineering problems from architecture through to live deployment

Skills

7+ years experience

Distributed systems

Engineering ownership

Job description

Acquire Me in Chicago is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to transform research ideas into live trading systems. You will join a team building high-performance, distributed infrastructure for backtesting and live execution.

You will work closely with Quant Researchers and Traders to push ideas from simulation to production in a low-latency environment, with a strong ownership model and exceptional compensation potential.