Speed is a competitive edge. At Wolverine Trading, the engineers who build and maintain that edge aren't managing it from afar, they're in the codebase every day. We're looking for gritty C++ Software Engineer to join our Chicago-based engineering team, working onsite alongside the traders, quants, and engineers who depend on the systems you'll help build.
The work is challenging by design: hard performance problems, code that goes straight to production, and the ability to see your impact in live markets. If you care deeply about correctness, speed, and craft and you want to work in an environment where that's the norm, Wolverine is the place for you.
- Write and optimize performance-critical C++ across our low-latency systems, from order execution to market connectivity
- Profile, benchmark, and systematically eliminate bottlenecks at every level of the system
- Collaborate directly with quants and traders to understand performance requirements and translate them into clean, efficient code
- Own components end-to-end from implementation through testing and production deployment
- Continuously refine your understanding of modern C++ and apply it to hard, real-world problems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of professional C++ experience with a genuine focus on performance and correctness
- Strong command of modern C++ (C++17/20), including concurrency, memory management, and the STL
- Solid grasp of algorithms, data structures, and low-level system behavior (Linux or Windows)
- Someone who takes ownership, thinks carefully about trade-offs, and takes pride in the quality of their code
- Most importantly: someone who wants to go deep, not broad