Senior Software Engineer - Trading Technical Operations Team

We are Gelber Group -- Passion for Trading. Powered by Technology.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices across the United States and Europe, for more than 40 years, we have set the bar as one of the industry’s most innovative and enduring proprietary trading firms. Our success derives from a relentless pursuit of new trading ideas and careful attention to technology. We believe in a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration and we empower each member of our team to have a meaningful impact from the very start of their career with Gelber. We invest in our future through our technology and talented staff, strategically committing resources to move our firm forward and help our people succeed. We trade a little bit of everything here and are always looking to expand into new opportunities. Our flat organizational structure and focus on a true meritocracy, attracts individuals with an edge which contributes to our consistent success.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Technical Operations at Gelber, you will have an active role in implementing and managing a wide variety of operational processes working closely with Infrastructure, Development, and Trade Support teams daily. You will help design and automate processes around application deployment, hardware provisioning, and monitoring of our trading system. This role is for someone who flourishes in a fast-paced environment, has a strong work ethic, clear communication, and looking for an opportunity where you will help design and deploy our own internal software to help support the trading environment. This position will report directly into the Manager of Technology Operations who reports directly into the Chief Technology Officer.

This position will require in person presence in our Chicago office located in River West right next to the Merchandise Mart and convenient to public transportation. This position will be flexible for hybrid schedule with three days in office, once fully onboarded.

What you’ll do:

• Expand and improve upon existing processes, pipelines, and systems for trading, research, development, deployment, configuration management, and monitoring to improve tech and trading efficiency with an eye for establishing best practices, continuous improvement, and strong documentation
• Design and develop applications to support real-time trading operations, monitoring and automation processes, and front-end systems to support the entire lifecycle of mission-critical trading system applications and to allow users to configure, deploy, and control their own production processes and pipelines
• Reduce complexity and human involvement in critical systems by building tools and automating tasks
• Deploy, configure, maintain internal and external applications, administer firmwide artifact management
• Automate container-based deployment pipelines and CI systems
• Work closely with the core development, support, and trading teams to deliver fixes, new features and firm-wide solutions and allow the company to continue to scale
• Mentor our next generation of software engineers on TechOps

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps or software development experience
• Demonstrated experience developing software with C#, ideally focusing on automation and integration – Python is a nice to have
• Strong working experience with SQL, preferably in using/managing databases such as MariaDB and MSSQL
• Extensive experience in building CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity preferred) for end-to-end automation for all builds and deployments
• Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems, from hardware and kernel to applications
• Hands-on experience with version control (GIT preferred)
• Experience with artifact management
• Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and public/private cloud infrastructure preferred
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, inquisitive nature, and strong attention to detail
• Eagerness to solve problems and a strong desire to automate your work with a reluctance to do repetitive tasks
• The ability to analyze and solve problems promptly and accurately in a fast-paced environment
• Mental flexibility - ability to adapt based on new data, results, and feedback from stakeholders
• Creative problem solving and probabilistic thinking - you must enjoy learning and implementing new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains to create new ideas, and take a data-driven and probabilistic approach to testing and implementing new ideas
• Trading industry experience preferred

The approximate annual base compensation range for this position in Chicago, IL is $145,000 to $200,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package plus benefits, will be determined by a number of factors which include but are not limited to the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities; geographic location; and internal equity. In addition to your salary, our total rewards package includes health benefits, a 401(k) plan, PTO, parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement and discretionary bonus, enhancing your overall total rewards package.

Benefits Highlights

Gelber offers a wide range of benefits to full-time employees, including:

• Traditional and Roth 401(k) retirement program with discretionary employer match
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical coverage provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield (PPO and HDHP/HSA) and dental coverage; generous employer cost-sharing
• Tuition reimbursement for Undergraduate and Graduate courses
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care and dependent care; pre-tax commuter benefits for parking and transit expenses
• Life insurance and long-term disability coverage
• Health club membership with on-site facilities (and reciprocal memberships)
• Generous vacation time (15-day accrual in first full calendar year of employment; prorated accrual in initial year), paid holidays, and paid maternity/paternity leave
• Catered lunches 3-days a week and monthly continental breakfasts
• Social events including sponsored 5k races and annual holiday party
• Enjoyable work environment including a game room (pool table, golf simulator)
• Employee referral bonus program
• Charitable giving and company matching opportunities
• Casual, relaxed dress code