Senior Engineer - Compliance Technology
CTC Lateral14 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and continuously improve real-time, high-throughput systems for monitoring orders and quotes across trading venues.
- Process large datasets and support market-making obligations.
- Automate compliance controls, detect prohibited trading behaviors, and generate or submit regulatory reports for multiple jurisdictions.
- Resolve production issues quickly to maintain uninterrupted market operations.
- Document architectures, processes, and changes for audits and regulatory reviews.
- Lead projects across Trading, Technology, and Operations and provide mentorship through code reviews and design evaluations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience with real-time, latency-sensitive trading or financial-services systems using Java and Python.
- Experience designing and building scalable systems, high-performance data pipelines, and market-monitoring tools.
- Strong understanding of market-making, trading operations, risk management, and applicable regulations.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving abilities in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment.
- Experience mentoring others through code review and evaluating design decisions.
- Preferred: experience with compliance or surveillance platforms, financial-regulation frameworks, operational-risk management tools, cloud-native architectures, or big-data technologies.
Benefits
- Generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch, healthy snacks, wellness reimbursement, and other employee benefits.
- Hybrid workplace model for most teams except Trading, subject to business needs.
About 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.