**Role: Software Engineer**
Location: Chicago
At Aquatic, we are actively recruiting for a Software Engineer in our Chicago
office. In this role you will work directly with some of the best and most
experienced researchers and technologists in the financial services industry.
You’ll work collaboratively to build systems that are critical to the success
of our company.
In this role, you will:
* Directly contribute to the development of Aquatic’s market prediction and trading platform
* Get exposure to applied machine learning techniques and quantitative finance
* Apply hands-on software development in Python, C++, Java, and other languages
* Learn to manage the full lifecycle of software engineering, including design, testing, deployment, and operations
* Adopt modern development practices including _Test-Driven Development_ , _Pair Programming,_ _Configuration as Code,_ and _Infrastructure as Code_
* Gain experience in execution, trading, or research system architecture
* Learn to use automated tests to accelerate your development and get to “done” sooner
* Gain understanding of Linux system administration concepts and skills
Required Experience:
* An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
* Exposure to modern C++, Python, or Java
* Comfortable working in and with Linux
* Ability and desire to create deterministic, automated tests
* A history of overcoming difficult problems using simple solutions
Candidate Qualities:
* Eagerness to both learn and teach; desire to rapidly improve your skills through direct mentoring
* Preference for working in a team delivering results and working across large scale solutions aligned with development and business goals
* Comfortable providing and receiving actionable feedback in a collaborative team setting
* Strong bias for action
* Driven by accountability and internal urgency
* Motivated by an ambitious environment and driven colleagues
[Aquatic Capital ](https://www.aquatic.com/)
Aquatic is a quantitative trading and investment company recently launched by
Jon Graham. Prior to founding Aquatic, Jon was a Partner and Senior Managing
Director at Citadel, where he worked for more than 13 years. At Citadel, Jon
held numerous senior positions over the years, including head of Statistical
Arbitrage and Equity High Frequency, culminating in leading the highly
successful Global Quantitative Strategies business.
Uncluttered by legacy platforms and processes, Aquatic develops systematic
investment strategies, enabled by a leading-edge research and development
platform. The vision is simple: to build a world class, quantitative trading
company with a collaborative team of highly capable researchers and engineers.
This role represents a unique opportunity to join a distinguished and hugely
successful quantitative investment manager at the foundational level of
building a world class operation from scratch. The firm’s culture will be
shaped by collaboration, meritocracy, ambition, and calm determination.
