tastyworks

As a Senior Software Engineer (Risk Management), you’ll be part of a team of engineers that builds out the retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the customer-facing applications we build. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance. You'll help by maintaining and building on current systems as well as green field projects and troubleshooting issues as they arise. Our engineers work with a wide variety of tools including C++, Java, Javascript, and Ruby. In this role, you’ll be expected to maintain, build out, and develop new mission critical services in Java using the Akka framework. Additionally, you’ll have a chance to help mentor more junior engineers and help them achieve success. What you’ll do:<ul><li>Maintain production systems, specifically risk management and trade event systems</li><li>Apply your knowledge of Reg T, Portfolio Margin, and SPAN margining to an existing production codebase and work closely with the risk management team to implement new functionality</li><li>Serve as a team lead for Java development</li><li>Write clean, maintainable, and tested code that is ready to scale</li><li>Carry responsibility for troubleshooting and resolving high stakes issues as they occur</li><li>Translate vision into actionable items, either directly or through working with a project manager</li></ul> Who you are:<ul><li>Proven experience with back end, high concurrency, high throughput Java Services</li><li>A long history of deploying and managing production systems built in Java</li><li>Experience with Akka is a positive, although not a hard requirement</li><li>Deep knowledge of standard risk management calculations (Reg T, Portfolio Margin, Span and theoretical option pricing)</li><li>The ability to learn quickly in areas in which you don't already have deep expertise</li><li>The ability to jump into a brand new framework or language and quickly become productive in it</li><li>8+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer on a team, preferably with some experience as a technical lead or mentor</li><li>Experience with other languages, such as Ruby, Python, C++</li></ul> Team Perks:<ul><li>Sustainable work day</li><li>Daily catered lunch when working in the office</li><li>Full kitchen with snacks and beverages</li><li>Dog-friendly office</li><li>In-building gym</li><li>Common rooftop deck with seating areas, landscaping, grills, and yard games</li><li>CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra</li><li>Monthly dev outings (e.g. escape rooms, movie nights, ax-throwing, laser tag, bowling, etc.)</li><li>Located in the West Loop, Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars</li></ul>Our Company: The tastytrade family of companies (tastytrade, tastyworks, dough, quiet foundation, and The Small Exchange) empowers individual investors by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, innovative derivatives products, and portfolio guidance. The diversity of our offerings and the technology that powers them provide our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly available, and performant systems. Our team is lean at roughly 40 members and we follow a management philosophy that values the autonomy of our engineers. Location: tastyworks 1000 W Fulton Market #220 Chicago, IL 60607

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