optimal · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Skills: Python, SQL
About Us: Optimal Market Technologies is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer with an innovative platform of wholesale options and execution solutions designed to meet the needs of today’s dynamic market participants. Optimal can quickly and seamlessly enhance its platform, adapt to regulatory changes, and offer a more efficient implementation that scales as clients grow. Optimal is disrupting the US Options Wholesale landscape by introducing a Competition for Order Flow model through which market makers compete for retail flow on our platform based on best execution quality. Additional offerings include an Institutional Alternative Trading System (ATS) for discreet execution and price improvement and Execution Services for institutional-grade routing and algorithmic execution designed to balance price capture, speed, and market impact across trading objectives. This is an opportunity to work for a fintech start-up and to be an integral part of growing a broker-dealer from the ground up. As a small, hardworking team, we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture and cross-team collaboration. We recently raised funding from several strategic partners and are in a very exciting stage of growth. Role: Senior Software Developer Company: Optimal Market Technologies, LLC Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 base salary, plus discretionary bonus (commensurate with experience) Position Overview: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build our next-generation options trading platform and to maintain and improve the current one. You will use AI coding agents for much of the development work. That makes code cheap to write; the critical parts are now design judgment, verification and review. This role is for an engineer who is strong in those. Your Primary Responsibilities: Design and Build: Own a defined part of our next-generation trading platform, from design through release. Design for failure: durability, failover and recovery. Keep…
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