We are PEAK6, a leading investment firm, headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade Building, where we first opened our doors in 1997. It’s been over 20 years since we were one of the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology to use in our trading business. Today, we continue to leverage our technical ingenuity and operational excellence across several investment areas, spanning early-to-mid growth capital, operational control, trading, and e-sports, while always providing value to the customer. Throughout the years, we’ve built and operated several financial technology firms, and we continue to evolve. You’ll find a bit of everything here, and we’re always looking to take on new endeavours.
We are creating a new software team in Belfast to work in Apex Clearing engineering department. The Senior Software Engineer will make technical decisions, understand the problems, and implement solutions to solve the firm’s challenges.
This team will work on building a highly available Fractional Trading Platform with high throughput and low latency through cloud infrastructure. The Fractional Trading team are free to explore unique solutions and try fresh ideas whilst writing a new system from scratch as we complete a rewrite of our fractional engine.
You’ll collaborate with some of tech’s sharpest minds to solve for the firm’s ever-changing but exciting challenges. Our team works together to solve problems. 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. The team will allow you to stretch yourself and learn new things.
This opportunity offers continual stretch into new features and functionalities that make us market leaders.
You’ll be responsible for:
You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:
As part of our interview process, you will meet with members of both our Belfast and US offices. Everyone you meet, shares the same values: Open and Honest Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Involving Everyone, Leaders Who Serve and Personal Accountability.
Life at PEAK6
We want you to like coming to work so we work really hard to make your job fun and different from any other.
We offer:
*All interviewing and onboarding will be conducted remotely. While we have always offered flexible working at PEAK6, please note that our roles will eventually feature some return to office, following the guidance of local health authorities and the CDC.
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