Top C++ Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead development of core client systems and engine-level infrastructure in Unity/C#. Diagnose and fix cross-cutting performance issues, upgrade third-party SDKs, evolve build tooling, produce design docs, scope multi-week infrastructure initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive profiling, optimization, and architecture changes to enable future features.

Develop and maintain custom options valuation and risk-management systems. Collaborate with traders, risk managers, and quants to gather requirements, design solutions, implement high-performance code, troubleshoot issues, document models and tests, and improve scalability, accuracy, and performance of pricing systems.

As a C++ Software Engineer, you will optimize performance for latency-critical systems, collaborate with traders and quants, and ensure code correctness in a fast-paced environment.

Design and develop low latency, high-performance trading systems. Optimize code and solutions for hardware efficiency, ensuring seamless application integration.

Develop and enhance performance-critical C++ applications for ultra-low latency trading systems, collaborating across teams to analyze and optimize performance.

Design, build, and scale low-latency ad-serving systems and data/model-driven features. Optimize algorithms and architectures for performance and cloud cost, extend observability, participate in on-call rotations, and produce runbooks and documentation.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.

Contract .NET developer/consultant role requiring 5+ years experience building web applications using C#, .NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server, LINQ, WCF, MVVM/MVC, and JavaScript frameworks (JSRender, Angular, Node, jQuery, HTML5). 6+ month contract; rate DOE.

Join the UI team for a 10-week summer internship to design, build, test, and maintain real-time C# .NET desktop trading applications. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers, implement unit and integration tests, evaluate UI technologies, and participate in Agile/Scrum and application support processes. Interns own a project and present outcomes at program end.

Work on high-performance, low-latency C++ systems for trading: maintain core systems, implement lower-risk features, execute individual projects, and collaborate with Quant and Trading. Focus areas include concurrency, networking, profiling, and performance tuning while supporting multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed architectures.

10-week C++ software engineering internship working on low-latency, multithreaded, distributed trading systems. Interns design, implement, and maintain components, collaborate with Quant and Trading, and deliver projects from ideation through production while using performance profiling, debugging tools, and modern C++ techniques.

Lead full‑stack engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining cloud-native .NET applications. Provide technical leadership, design scalable microservices, implement CI/CD, secure SPAs, perform code reviews, and ensure operational reliability. Collaborate across product teams and apply Azure, Kubernetes, and modern design patterns to deliver financial solutions.

Design, build, test, and support web and client-server applications; lead custom SharePoint intranet development; implement front-end features using C#/.NET and JavaScript frameworks; optimize performance and scalability; produce technical specifications, documentation, QA, and user training; maintain .NET certifications.

Lead design and global rollout of a high-performance core market data and execution platform. Implement and optimize low-latency market data ingestion, normalization, distribution, and execution components in modern C++. Own deployment, monitoring, profiling, and production optimization while collaborating closely with quants and technical traders to enable systematic pricing and trading strategies.

Lead development of high-performance C++ trading systems and core platform components, build and optimize exchange connectivity (market data and order flow), implement trading algorithms, improve stability and observability, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate closely with quants and traders to iterate on design and deployment.

The role involves using C++ for software development focusing on object-oriented principles, with projects on Linux and Windows operating systems. It requires strong debugging and testing skills, along with adaptability to new technologies.

The C++ Developer will engage in software development focusing heavily on C++ and object-oriented programming, primarily for Linux and Windows systems.

Develop and maintain .NET Core trading systems for Linux with service-oriented architecture and multi-threaded processing. Implement async, lock-free structures and distributed systems, write unit and integration tests, optimize SQL queries, design data structures and algorithms, and work with communication protocols (SignalR, gRPC, HTTP). Use PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in the deployment stack.

Contribute to and optimize the performance of ClickHouse, assist with debugging, collaborate with teams, and engage with the open-source community.

Build and optimize high-performance C/C++ and Rust server applications and feed handlers for market data. Implement parsers, petabyte-scale processing tools, and low-latency, high-throughput optimizations. Collaborate on build/deploy/CI, monitoring, and ensure reliable feature rollouts.

The Software Engineer will participate in designing and implementing software solutions, collaborating with various stakeholders, writing code, and addressing development challenges.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ components for trading platforms, focusing on low-latency systems, while collaborating with multiple teams and ensuring production reliability.

The C++ Developer will implement, test and deploy features for a high-frequency trading system, optimize performance, and debug issues.

Develop and optimize ultra-low-latency, high-performance trading infrastructure in modern C++. Implement and tune order execution, market data connectivity, multi-threaded systems, and risk modules. Profile and benchmark real-time systems, collaborate with quants and traders, and maintain robust, fault-tolerant continuous trading operations.