PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

CTC

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Vacancies: 1

Posted: 22-10-2025

Salary: $200,000 to $250,000

Experience: 2 to 6

Skills: Python

Description:

CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. WHAT YOU LL DO Develop, test, and maintain high-performance trading applications, backtesting tools, and libraries using Python, with a focus on volatility products. Work closely with traders to translate strategies into technical requirements, and with researchers to optimize the integration of models into live trading systems. Create and drive a technical roadmap developing strong, dependable, and easy-to-maintain code in accordance with established guidelines and industry norms. Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to continuous improvement within the team. Keep up-to-date with the latest advancements in trading technology, Python development, and related libraries and frameworks. WHAT WE RE LOOKING FOR Significant experience in working directly on a systematic trading desk. Options experience strongly preferred. Experience in an architect-level role. Hands-on experience with Python and proficiency in modern Python concepts such as asyncio. Experience designing and implementing systems capable of processing real-time market data at low latencies and integrating seamlessly with research pipelines. Experience designing and implementing high-performance and flexible research systems capable of hosting and processing terabytes of data on a computer cluster with GPU and tens of thousands CPU cores. Experience using numerical toolkits such as pandas and NumPy is preferred but not required. COMPENSATION Salary range is $200,000 - $250,000, plus a discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance. Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.

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