Senior Software Engineer

6 days ago


Chicago, IL, United States Strategic Employment Full time
updated 11/26/25

About the Role

TradingBlock is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer to join our team and drive the development of our core back-end trading infrastructure. If you have deep experience building high-quality, high-performance systems for trading or brokerage operations, we want to talk to you. You will play a crucial role in designing, building, and maintaining the systems that power our financial operations.

What You Will Do: Key Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable back-end systems critical to trading and brokerage operations.
  • Contribute to the architecture and implementation of low-latency, high-throughput solutions.
  • Work across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design to deployment and monitoring.
What You Will Bring: Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally in the Financial Services or FinTech domain.
  • Deep expertise in C# and the .NET framework.
  • Proven experience building high-quality, transactional back-end infrastructure systems in a trading environment.
  • Practical experience examples may include:
    • Order Management Systems (OMS)
    • Trade/Execution Engines
    • Market Data Feed Handlers
    • FIX Engines and Order Routing
    • Position Servers, P/L, or Margin Engines
    • Low Latency Design Principles
    • Middleware/Messaging Queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
    • REST APIs and Web Sockets
Senior Software Engineer

A tech-focused online brokerage based in The Loop is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on their core trading systems. They've been in business for over 20 years now and are in a major growth phase.

This position focuses on the full life cycle of their proprietary trading platform, specifically across the front, middle, and back-office systems. You will be joining an established firm with a history of strong performance and a collaborative, tech-first culture.

Responsibilities
  • Developing and optimizing their high-performance order routing engines.
  • Designing and implementing market data processing services.
  • Integrating new features and connections using the FIX Protocol.
  • Collaborating with business stakeholders to translate needs into technical solutions.
  • Maintaining a high standard of code quality, performance, and reliability across all trading systems.
Requirements
  • Significant professional experience working as a Software Engineer, ideally on complex, high-performance systems.
  • Expertise in C# development.
  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Pluses
  • Any professional experience with C++.
  • Direct experience working on low-latency trading systems, market data, or electronic brokerage platforms.
  • Familiarity with financial protocols like FIX.

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