Python Engineer

Location: Chicago
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

GROWING CHICAGO TRADING COMPANY with Amazing Culture & Benefits This Jobot Job is hosted by: Ryan Kilroy Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" button and sending us your resume. Salary: $130,000 - $150,000 per year A bit about us: We are a growing Trading firm with a product focused mindset centered around our technology and strategies. We do our very best to create, code, and implement robust trading strategies in the financial markets. We cannot be successful without all three and this is the never-ending challenge, to stay ahead of the game. Why join us? We are a small, highly capable, and hungry family that is looking to grow our teams with passionate individuals who are looking to bet on themselves and learn from the best! The ideal hire is an experienced Python developer - someone who knows how to code, understands algorithms, and can follow instructions, but also can do design, architecture, analysis, and technical documentation. Hire should be proactive, dedicated, and knowledgeable. We tend to favor hires who can do multiple tasks (generalist) rather than one task (specialist). You will have the opportunity to grow within the organization, have immediate impact, and the chance to yield the benefits of delivering your own trading strategies into production. Job Details Prior financial market/proprietary trading knowledge is necessary. Hire will help our lead developer with the coding of new strategies as well as system admin tasks – e.g. server config (Ansible), real-time messaging (RabbitMQ), task management (Airflow), micro services (Docker), system auditing, deploy automation (Jenkins), log management, database management (MongoDB, SQL), Python scripting, data analysis (Pandas, Scikit-Learn), etc. We strongly prefer hires with knowledge of Centos (Linux Distro) for remote servers, terminal/bash, crontab, systemd, SSH and SCP, Python 3.0, NumPy, TensorFlow, Click, IQfeed, CQG, IB, TradeStation, and especially Rithmic (API) Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" button. Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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