Senior Software Engineer (Developer Productivity) (Chicago)

This company is a leading global trading and technology firm with a reputation for innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. They combine cutting-edge research, advanced technology, and deep market expertise to provide liquidity and stability across global financial markets. Their teams span the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, united by a culture of high performance, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Technology is at the core of everything this global trading firm does. Their in-house engineering teams build sophisticated systems that execute millions of decisions daily enabling smarter, faster, and more efficient operations across the business.

They are seeking an experienced Software Developer with strong communication and problem-solving skills to join their Productivity Engineering team. This teams mission is to empower trading, research, and software teams by providing the tools, infrastructure, and processes that streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.

Rather than directly developing trading strategies, the group focuses on removing bottlenecks, improving developer efficiency, and maintaining a world-class remote development environment used by hundreds of engineers worldwide. The team works across multiple languages and platforms, including Python, C++, and Java, continually driving innovation in build systems, CI / CD pipelines, and development tooling.

Core Responsibilities

• Scale and enhance the firms build systems and developer tooling to provide a best-in-class experience for engineers.
• Maintain reliable multi-tenant development environments supporting hundreds of concurrent users across global regions.
• Diagnose and resolve issues within build and infrastructure systems, implementing both immediate fixes and long-term architectural improvements.
• Design and develop infrastructure to support build, test, and release workflows.
• Champion best practices for code quality, maintainability, and development productivity across teams.

Skills & Experience