CTC Lateral
Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making and other derivatives across global exchanges. It trades its own capital, combining quantitative research, systematic strategies, and in-house trading technology to provide liquidity and price discovery. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, the privately held firm operates in multiple asset classes and supports research and trading with extensive market and reference data platforms.
Open Positions at CTC Lateral
6 open positions
Build the production-grade data pipelines, research infrastructure, and evaluation tools that quantitative researchers and traders use to develop and validate trading strategies. This role bridges quantitative research and engineering, with a focus on reliable, reproducible, high-performance systems.
Build and operate large-scale data ingestion pipelines that power CTC’s research platforms and decision-making across the firm. You’ll improve pipeline reliability, data quality, performance, and migration to modern platforms while partnering closely with traders and quantitative researchers.
Build AI-powered agent tooling, infrastructure, and workflow interfaces used by engineers, quants, and traders at a leading proprietary trading firm. The role combines LLM application development, model infrastructure, developer tooling, and hands-on collaboration with internal users.
Experienced Software Engineer building and maintaining high-performance trading systems and algorithms at a leading proprietary options market-making firm. The role offers a hybrid workplace model for most teams and a base salary of $145,000–$225,000 plus discretionary bonus.
Build high-performance full-stack systems at the core of a proprietary options trading firm, partnering closely with traders, quants, and technologists. This role combines architecture, hands-on development, and rapid issue resolution in a collaborative hybrid environment.
Build and optimize high-performance, low-latency C++ trading systems that power CTC’s options market-making business. You’ll work closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to improve execution speed, scalability, and trading performance.