Senior Software Engineer, Cboe
$108-178k
+ Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Market infrastructure and tradable product provider
Open for applications
Market infrastructure and tradable product provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$108-178k
+ Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a trusted, inclusive global marketplace that enables people to pursue a sustainable financial future.
Role
Who you are
- 7-10 years relevant work experience
- Experience with:
- Java, Python
- Linux and scripting
- PostgreSQL or similar relational database
- Git or similar version control
- AWS (preferable, not mandatory)
- Passion for big data
- Strong knowledge of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability/willingness to interface with non-technical team members to convert an idea/concept into a robust solution
- Finance industry experience/knowledge
- Minimum Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related discipline
What the job involves
- The Cboe FX and UST Data Engineering team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer
- This role will design, develop, and deploy large-scale, fault tolerant data systems
- We record every event on our 24x5 FX (Foreign Exchange) and UST (U.S. Treasuries) trading platforms
- Billions of events are processed daily for books and records, reporting, analytics and market data products
- Our proprietary tick database, built from the ground up using Java, is highly available and performant, and is a critical differentiator for Cboe FX and UST
- This role entails working in a fast-paced environment where you will build and maintain software applications related to data collection and analytics
- Cboe FX and UST is a global team with Software Engineering based in the New York City area
- It is a hybrid environment with occasional days on-site
- Building/testing/maintaining applications that are highly reliable (24x5), and highly performant to collect/aggregate data on billions of data points
- Driving architectural decisions/implementations to make our software resilient and scalable
- Writing well-designed, testable, maintainable, reusable, secure, efficient code
- Identifying opportunities to improve user experience, reduce cost, and improve performance
- Supporting APIs and flexible tools to query, summarize, and analyze big data
- Automating monitoring and alerting of anomalous market conditions
- Generating rich reports that deliver actionable business insights
- Creating and maintaining wiki documentation
Our take
Cboe provides market infrastructure and tradable products, including options, offering trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants globally. Promising to operate an inclusive and trusted marketplace, its services ultimately enable participants to access a sustainable financial future.
The company is truly global, offering solutions across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and meeting the specific needs of its customers from where they are based. Its reach is echoed in the creation or acquisition of entirely new markets and market models, many of which served as the first of its kind, and hence have grown to become some of largest, most relied upon out there.
Cboe intends to build upon the momentum that it continues to snowball year-on-year, growing its presence across North America whilst refining its latest innovations. For its participants, it will find new ways to enhance the overall equities markets while improving the customer experience on its platforms.
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Company benefits
- Opportunity for bonus, 401(k) retirement plan and generous company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and pre-tax transportation benefits
- Flexible, hybrid work environment designed to meet your needs, opportunities to decide what will best support your work each day
- Educational seminars, feedback tools, mentorship program, retirement planning assistance, tuition reimbursement and robust in-house learning platforms
- Medical, vision and dental insurance options, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), life insurance, Employee Assistance Program and paid parental leave
- Paid time off, proprietary holistic wellness program, in-office gyms, snacks, coffee, happy hours and office events
- Cboe Empowers mentorship program, matching gift program, Cboe Outstanding Community Service Award, volunteer days, charity races and more
Company values
- Active Transparency - Fiercely honest, maintains trust and integrity, consistently shares information
- Competitive Spirit - Driven to win, tenacious, celebrates victories but never rests on laurels
- Good Citizenship - Accountable to our communities, leads by example, serves as part of the solution
- Creative Collaboration - Inclusive, values and encourages different perspectives, thrives on trust
- Superior Service - Accessible, approachable, collaborative approach to service, exceeds expectations
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
Fred Tomczyk
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked as Lead Independent Director for Sagen. Also sits on the Board of Directors for Unity Willis Towers Watson and The World Federation of Exchanges.
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