At Aquatic, we are actively recruiting for a Software Engineer in our Chicago office. In this role you will work directly with some of the best and most experienced researchers and technologists in the financial services industry. You’ll work collaboratively to build systems that are critical to the success of our company.

In this role, you will:

• Directly contribute to the development of Aquatic’s market prediction and trading platform
• Get exposure to applied machine learning techniques and quantitative finance
• Apply hands-on software development in Python, C++, Java, and other languages
• Learn to manage the full lifecycle of software engineering, including design, testing, deployment, and operations
• Adopt modern development practices including Test-Driven Development, Pair Programming, Configuration as Code, and Infrastructure as Code
• Gain experience in execution, trading, or research system architecture
• Learn to use automated tests to accelerate your development and get to “done” sooner
• Gain understanding of Linux system administration concepts and skills

Required Experience: 

• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• Exposure to modern C++, Python, or Java
• Comfortable working in and with Linux
• Ability and desire to create deterministic, automated tests
• A history of overcoming difficult problems using simple solutions

Candidate Qualities: 

• Eagerness to both learn and teach; desire to rapidly improve your skills through direct mentoring
• Preference for working in a team delivering results and working across large scale solutions aligned with development and business goals
• Comfortable providing and receiving actionable feedback in a collaborative team setting
• Strong bias for action
• Driven by accountability and internal urgency
• Motivated by an ambitious environment and driven colleagues