Software Engineer (C++) - Risk Services Team

Application Deadline: 30 April 2026

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago

Compensation: $100,000 - $150,000 / year

Description

We are currently seeking a driven and talented Software Engineer to join our Risk Services team.  Our Software Engineers thrive on pushing the limits of technology to produce state-of-the-art applications for TT’s platform, which is the front-end screen of choice for professional derivatives traders around the world. As a Software Engineer you will work on our award-winning trading platform which incorporates robust, high-performance tools for spread trading, strategy creation, algorithmic and automated trading, black-box execution, high-frequency proximity-based trading and more.

What Will You Be Involved With?

• Code day to day in C++ and other programming languages
• Design and implement software requirements and new product features
• Enhance and maintain existing functionality
• Participate in design discussions and review sessions
• Create high-level and detailed design documents
• Assist with product documentation, unit testing and ensuring overall product quality
• Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture
• Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
• Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
• Perform memory and resource management analysis
• Analyze stack traces, core dumps and production incident reports from traders and support teams
• Propose fixes, enhancements to existing trading systems
• Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
• Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings
• Design, develop, program server-side software components

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• A minimum 3 years of solid modern C++ development experience and the ability to understand, write, review and debug multithreaded code is required 
• Proven experience in multi-threaded applications with a focus on performance is required
• Experience with Linux operating systems is required
• Experience with financial trading systems experience is a plus but not required
• Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements and working application code
• Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies
• Solid debugging and performance tuning skills
• Knowledge of relational database technology, and non relational databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc) is desirable.

Additional Desired Skills:

• 
  Scala proficiency: Demonstrated experience leveraging Scala for complex data processing and application development.

Kafka expertise: Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize solutions using Kafka clusters.

What We Bring to the Table

• Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, 401(k) and pre-tax transit/parking
• Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
• 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, one day per year available for volunteering, 2 Training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during a 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
• The company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, office equipment.
• Milestone anniversary bonuses
•  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