PEAK6 Careers in Chicago

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Build sweet UIs – and the frameworks that drive them – on top of REST APIs designed in collaboration with your cross-functional team. Think through hard problems and solve them at all layers of the enterprise. Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable development practices. Work as a part of small, productive development team that puts an emphasis on code quality, peer reviews, and strong engineering practices. Help grow the team by participating in interview loops, coaching and mentoring your colleagues, and improving our processes and practices.

As a Systems Engineer specializing in macOS Technologies in Technology Experience, you will be instrumental in the experience of all our employees throughout the PEAK6. We’re looking for someone who takes ownership of their work, is resourceful in their problem-solving skills and is able to think creatively. This individual will work together with a team to perform day to day management on all macOS and iOS technologies utilized within the organization. You are the subject matter expert for all things Apple. You will take on projects that will require clear communication and completion in a timely manner. We want someone who has a passion for setting the performance bar and thrives in an energetic team environment, while delivering a fully integrated solution that fits into one unified technology stack.

Design, implement, maintain and support the platform services associated. Configure monitoring and alerting systems for the applications and platform-services. Working with the Leadership and be accountable for aligning the team to architectural, technical, functional and performance guidelines related with the CI/CD pipelines.

As a Software Engineering Manager at PEAK6 Capital Management, you’ll have a big impact on the firm. You’ll work within our proprietary trading entity and have genuine opportunities to partner with PEAK6’s Product Managers and impact our overall engineering strategy. This is a role for someone who flourishes in a fast-paced environment, has a strong technical background, and has a customer/product mindset first.

As a senior technical product manager at PEAK6 Technologies, you’ll have a big impact on the firm across several businesses. You’ll be responsible for defining the products we build and ensuring that they provide maximum value upon delivery. Our product managers get to know their products inside and out and love working with business experts and engineers. They also get to put their own stamp on everything they do.

As a member of the Finance Team at PEAK6, you’ll have a big impact on the firm by adding your financial and accounting experience to our organization and its employees, in a rapidly growing environment and team. While some areas will be the same each month we are looking for someone to bring their experience to our team and shake up the norm. Additionally, our diverse business streams affords you the unique opportunity to grow across a variety of verticals, engaging you in unique challenges, projects, and technologies.

PEAK6 is a leading investment firm headquartered in Chicago. More than 20 years ago, we were one of the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology in our trading business. Today, we leverage our technical ingenuity and operational ability across several investment areas. We cover everything, spanning from early- to mid-stage growth capital, operational control, trading, and sports management while lending an eye and providing

We are PEAK6, a leading investment firm. You'll find us headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade building, where we first opened our doors in 1997. It's been over 20 years since we were one of the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology to use in our trading business. Today, we continue to leverage our technical ingenuity and operational excellence across several investment areas, spanning early-to-mid stage growth

We are PEAK6, a leading investment firm. You'll find us headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade building, where we first opened our doors in 1997. It's been over 20 years since we were one of the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology to use in our trading business. Today, we continue to leverage our technical ingenuity and operational excellence across several investment areas, spanning early-to-mid stage growth

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core team, a regular day may start with reviewing Grafana charts of system and application metrics, tweaking configurations on market data feed handlers, using our Kubernetes infrastructure to horizontally scale a key service, or collaborating with our infrastructure team on a new, cloud native service to introduce to our stack. Additionally, Staff Software Engineers regularly participate in and contribute to regular architecture cadences, drive discussions and decisions on coding standards and practices, mentor other engineers and help reinforce and improve PEAK6’s engineering culture. 

PEAK6 was brought to life by the idea that the development of integrative technology can improve how business is done. The passion for that idea powers our firm still. As a Senior Software Engineer at PEAK6, you are free to explore unique solutions and try fresh ideas within our engineering teams – Core/Data, Trading Tools, and Execution - that may benefit our financial services and trading businesses, and our investment companies. You’ll collaborate with some of tech’s sharpest minds to solve for the firm’s ever-changing but exciting challenges. Working in tech at PEAK6 means that you’ll always be presented with a variety of new possibilities as you continue to enhance your skills.

As a Technical Operations Engineer you will provide mission critical support for our cutting-edge trading platform and applications. You’ll be responsible for improving our day to day operations while translating trading desk needs into tactical priorities. You’ll also be a champion for engineering excellence, assessing and guiding our teams to ensure the that our trading platform and all trading applications are well-documented, observable, monitored, and performant. 

Owning and contributing to the end-to-end design of a wide variety of ecommerce related experiences; from concept to launch to iteration with an objective of exploring viability of a product idea and ability to take to market. Sketching, wireframe, prototype, and animate to turn concepts into understandable, actionable high-fidelity designs and design systems. Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences. Developing and executing total user experiences for a variety of new products, apps, and platforms (wireframes, sketches, branding, etc.). Working with Creative Director and Product team to build a powerful and interesting user centered designs. Conducting research to inform the overall viability of a new product idea as well as to inform design and user experience approach.

Drive product prioritization and detailed product definition for PEAK6 Capital Management Products. Build relationships with stakeholders and teams to help influence & drive successful outcomes. You will lead throughout the full product lifecycle. Define the vision and strategy for the product(s) they own. Collaborate across the Product team to tell the story of the overall company Product Vision and Strategy. This includes the overall vision and how their team contributes to that program, while also maintaining roadmaps for individual products. Understand markets, competition and customer/user requirements in depth. Curate a list of feedback and ideas for their product. Lead product strategy for including market analysis, go to market strategy, and user acquisition/adoption. Uncovers and influences opportunities from Discovery process to define and measure KPIs that evaluate performance of product suite against targeted outcomes.

Designing and administering our database infrastructure, which includes Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, AWS, MongoDB and Redis. Building and managing highly available systems. Participating in incident calls and subsequent root cause analysis. Deploying systems in a Linux and/or Windows environment. Working with developers, infrastructure team and business units to design and deliver the data infrastructure that runs PEAK6. Developing, managing and testing backup and recovery procedures. Performance tuning at all levels (hardware, DB instance, application code, etc.). Installing, testing and implementing new versions and/or updates. Communicating and working well within a team structure.

As a Social Media Manager (Contractor), you will be responsible for clearly defining social media strategies that increase increases brand equity, online awareness and promotes PEAK6’s employer brand. This role will be responsible for evaluating, planning, organizing, managing and content development for all PEAK6 social media channels to achieve business objectives and strengthen the firm’s position in the marketplace.

As a Temporary HRIS Project Manager in Human Resources, you will be instrumental in planning and implementing our new HCM tool that will impact every employee throughout the PEAK6 Family of Brands. You will take on projects that will require clear communication and completion in a timely manner. We want someone who has a passion for setting the performance bar and thrives in an energetic team environment, while delivering a fully integrated solution that fits into one unified technology stack.

As an Accounting Operations Manager, you’ll have a big impact on the firm by adding your financial and accounting experience to our organization and its employees, in a rapidly growing environment and team. Speed is our strength, our ability to transition and get our work done efficiently and accurately is our competitive advantage. While some areas will be the same each month we are looking for someone to bring their experience to our team and shake up the norm. Additionally, our diverse business streams affords you the unique opportunity to grow across a variety of verticals, engaging you in unique challenges, projects, and technologies.