PEAK6

Month-end close which includes posting journal entries, reconciling balance sheet accounts and preparing monthly financials. Assisting in year-end audits. Preparing monthly FOCUS reports for applicable entities. Preparing monthly reporting packages for senior management Preparing annual budget and ongoing analysis of budget versus actual results.

As a Tech Recruiting Manager at PEAK6, you will work within a team that influences all aspects of our firm’s culture and success. You’ll work to identify and recruit some of the sharpest minds in proprietary trading and technology. Working in Human Resources at PEAK6 means that you’ll always be presented with a variety of new possibilities as you advance your career.

Supporting with all administrative needs including travel, calendar management, expenses, meeting agendas and recurring team meetings. Keeping the CEO and executive team on track during meetings and resolving scheduling conflicts as needed. Participate in meeting with managers to help record notes, takeaways, and deliverables. Understand priorities, as well as short-term strategies and lay out a plan of how and when to tackle. Build a thorough understanding of NFS organization and department cross functionality. Based on this, drive the priorities of executives through weekly meetings and identifying opportunities to increase leadership team effectiveness.

Collaborating with business and technology teams on trading strategy implementations. Developing core systems like messaging architecture/systems and/or end user applications around portfolio risk and data analysis that help support the activities of various middle and back-office operations as well as trading tools/platforms. Performing manual and automated testing to confirm application behavior. Optimizing and monitoring critical path performance. Troubleshooting production issues quickly and efficiently.

Develop software and systems across multiple languages and frameworks. Develop front-end and back-end systems, APIs and processes. Demonstrate the ability to think appropriately through solutions for different layers of the enterprise. Develop clean integration points between front and back-end layers. Develop well covered and appropriate tests (Unit, Integration, etc.) as needed. Work easily and efficiently within a small, productive development team, without constant supervision.

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 a number of investment areas, spanning early- to mid-stage growth capital, operational control, trading, and sports management, with an eye toward providing value to the customer. Over

Work on a mix of front-end, client-facing features and back-end services using multiple languages and frameworks to implement new functionality for the Peak6 platform. Demonstrate the ability to think appropriately through solutions for different layers of the enterprise. Develop and maintain a clean and consistent API for both internal applications and external client applications. 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

Work on back-end services using multiple languages and frameworks to implement new functionality for the Dough platform. Demonstrate the ability to think appropriately through solutions for different layers of the enterprise. Develop and maintain a clean and consistent API for both internal applications and external client applications. 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.

Partner with HR leads to develop measurement strategies and data solutions for the HR organization Bring together data from different HR systems (e.g., HRIS, ATS, Onboarding, Performance Mgmt., Compensation, etc.) to create a dynamic HR Dashboard using Sisense. Investigate ways to measure and visualize data on existing HR processes for internal efficiency and stakeholder communication. Analyze workflows and processes to ensure data is being captured in a clean, reportable way so we can get data at the fingertips of HR, organizational leaders, and employees. Leverage tools such as Sisense, SQL, UltiPro, Greenhouse, and Excel to drive analytics and enable client self-service on routine queries. Utilize UltiPro’s web services to build integrations. Explore ways to use technology to help employees during moments that matter, such as big life events.

PEAK6 is currently offering the opportunity for a paid internship with our Finance team. This internship can begin immediately, working 20 hours per week, with the option to expand to 40 hours as desired.

PEAK6 is a leading investment firm headquartered in Chicago. More than 20 years ago, PEAK6 was started with a simple premise: to apply technology to make the options market operate more efficiently—and to realize great financial returns in the process. More than two decades later, we invest in, own and start businesses that allow us to apply our unique blend of technology and operational expertise to make industries and businesses perform better.

Content marketing – an ability to plan, direct and execute on content production and a knack for guiding content that is going to resonate with the customer for both acquisition and engagement objectives. Data – looks at everything through a data lens to guide decision making and sets up measurement frameworks to ensure we capture data on the full breadth of marketing impact we’re having. Assessing the overall positioning of the brand, competitive landscape and customer opportunity and map to what it means for marketing strategy. Brand & creative direction – an ability to drive clarity in customer targeting and brand positioning and drive consistency and thoroughness throughout marketing and product execution. Crafting compelling messaging for partners such as in the PR space to get coverage and positive discussion around the brand. Channel execution – likely an early focus on getting the full value out of our content through channels such as PR, social media, e-mail, and content partnerships so an ability to approach these channels to ensure we get a direct response impact out of them.

Overseeing day to day benefits administration. Educating new employees on benefit offerings and assist employees with benefit questions. Assisting in managing benefit and HR system related projects. Managing data entry and basic administration for multiple systems, ensuring data integrity and accurate reporting. Partnering with Payroll Manager to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at PEAK6, you are free to explore unique solutions and try fresh ideas 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.

PEAK6 Investments is looking for a highly ambitious and passionate Sr. Market Data Engineer to join our Core Engineering Team. In this dynamic role, you will work on systems and libraries that enable developers to build trading tools and order execution systems. As a Sr. Market Data Engineer, you love participating in technical discussions, solving problems, helping others grow as developers, making systems blazing fast, digging into data,

Designing and implementing ETL components and schemas for new datasets. Developing relationships with Trading, Technology, Analytics, and other end users to understand the domain, problems, and requirements. Provide level 2 support for data quality issues. Creating daily business reports that combine data from various sources.

As an Engineering Tech Lead on our Data Team you’ll be an integral part to our engineering/data organization, helping to drive the design, development, and implementation of the platforms/tools we use to ingest, manage, and share data within the firm. 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.

Analyzing enterprise application needs, while helping to design and implement solutions with business partners.  Developing project schedules for assigned project and coordinate responsibilities associated with project management. Ensuring stability, integration and integrity of production systems. Coordinating with operational support personnel and system administrators for application upgrades and patches. Coordinating and providing assistance for interface maintenance and support. Directing and guiding the design and implementation of systems.  Developing end user training schedules and executing them, while supporting learning systems group in design. Creating technical support documentation and keeping it updated. 

Assisting in developing, implementing and enforcing a detailed compliance program to ensure compliance with SEC / FINRA (other SRO) regulations and firm policies.  Drafting and maintaining policies and procedures. Providing ongoing support to employees on compliance areas, including policies, disclosures, and personal trading. Analyzing large amounts of data. Monitoring for compliance with internal policies and procedures and regulatory requirements. Conducting comprehensive compliance reviews and testing. Identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risks; articulating and implementing corrective action plans. Researching new or revised laws and regulations (and corporate policy where applicable) to determine impact on the business and its processes and procedures. Administering a compliance-training program for employees.

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 a number of investment areas, spanning early- to mid-stage growth capital, operational control, trading, and sports management, with an eye toward providing value to the customer. Over

Managing and/or building complex applications, preferably using Java and related technologies, and have experience in the financial services technology space. Ramping up quickly on our business and understand its needs in order to correctly prioritize and direct all development efforts. Knowing the skills, strengths and weaknesses of the team in order to efficiently and successfully execute all the development projects. Coaching and growing the development and management skills on the team, and recognize and hire great talent. Motivating the team to success and help make a fun and rewarding place to work. Creatively approaching lifecycle management so that the development process is constantly improving in order to match the needs of the business. Getting things done. Quickly catch issues in development and know who to connect to keep things running efficiently and moving in the right directionSenio.

As a Data Scientist at PEAK6, you are free to explore unique solutions and try fresh ideas that will benefit our trading business and investment companies. You’ll collaborate with some of tech’s and analytics’ sharpest minds to solve 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.

Building and managing strategic relationships with the business, campus career services, relevant organizations, students and professors to build strong talent pipelines. Managing and building the firm’s highly visible campus recruiting programs across trading and technology. You will be responsible for driving the firm’s multiple campus recruiting programs while project managing and prioritizing. Directly managing members of the campus recruiting team to continually improve, optimize, and scale our overall campus program for the firm. Overseeing the strategy and execution of PEAK6 summer internship programs. Evaluating campus programs and activities to ensure they align with the firm’s objectives. Planning, managing, and facilitating recruitment events on campus. Facilitating internal training delivered to internal stakeholders across the firm to educate them on the PEAK6 campus recruiting process, best practices and goals, prepare them for participation in the campus recruiting effort.