Trading System Engineer

Hybrid in Chicago, IL, US • Posted 16 hours ago • Updated 16 hours ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
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Job Details

Skills

  • Trading
  • Finance
  • SQL
  • API
  • Software Development

Summary

Financial Trading system engineer. 
 
Company Overview
Founded to bridge the gap between advisors'' trading activities and optimal client outcomes, focuses on leveraging derivatives expertise to select structured notes that align with client needs over broker incentives. Our mission is to assist advisors in reducing their clients'' risks through structured notes. As a rapidly growing firm, we value innovation, integrity, and the power of informed financial decisions.

The Role
You’ll work directly with our Head of Product as the critical bridge between what the business needs and what gets built. You’ll turn business requirements into working software, replacing external tools with internally owned solutions, automating manual processes, ensuring clean API integrations with various systems, and maintaining the central database that connects every function of our company.
This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role at a company where your work directly affects the trajectory of the business. Within 6 months, you’ll own the full pipeline from business request to deployed solution. Within 12 months, the systems you build will be foundational infrastructure for our next growth phase.

What You’ll Do
  • Build and maintain internal systems that replace external SaaS dependencies, ensuring Marine Layer owns its core infrastructure
  • Automate manual processes across sales operations, reporting, and client delivery
  • Leverage AI-assisted development (Claude Code) as your daily workflow accelerant
  • Manage and improve our central database and the integrations that connect it to every tool we use
  • Translate business requirements from the sales and operations teams into technical specifications and shipped code
  • Maintain engineering discipline: version control, testing, documentation, and clean deployments

You’re a Great Fit If You...
  • Have a degree in Financial Engineering, Operations Engineering, Computer Science (with finance interest), or a related quantitative field
  • Have strong software fundamentals, are fluent in SQL, and understand API integrations
  • Have foundational knowledge of financial products (structured notes, derivatives, fixed income)
  • Have strong habits around code quality
  • Are excited about AI-assisted development and have used Claude, Copilot, or similar tools
  • Thrive in small, fast-moving teams where you own your outcomes
  • Can communicate with non-technical people about technical tradeoffs
  • Are innovative and enjoy collaborating with colleagues to create solutions

You’re Probably Not a Fit If You...
  • Want to specialize deeply in one technology and not think about the business context
  • Need extensive structure, detailed specifications for tasks, and a large team around you
  • Are uncomfortable with ambiguity or changing priorities
  • Prefer to maintain existing systems rather than build new ones
  • Have no interest in financial products or services
  • See AI tools as a threat rather than an accelerant

What We Offer:
  • Base salary (depending on experience) + performance-based incentives
  • Direct access to leadership team
  • Ownership from problem to production
  • AI-native development environment
  • Deep exposure to financial products and derivatives
 
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  • Dice Id: 10211499
  • Position Id: 9039715
  • Posted 16 hours ago
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Srija Nakka

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