Quant Developer – Research Engineering
A developer role between research and production at an options market maker, building the datasets and systems that quant researchers and traders use. The role owns research infrastructure and shared data.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Build and run the pipelines behind research and backtesting
- Take research prototypes into reliable production
- Own shared datasets used across desks, including quality and timeliness
- Optimise performance-critical numerical code and migrate pipelines to newer data platforms
What they ask for
Required
- Production-level Python with NumPy and pandas
- Working C++
- Statistics, regression and time series
- Software design
- Operating data pipelines at scale
- Ability to work with quants and traders
Preferred
- Options or market-making experience
- Backtesting or simulation infrastructure
- Cloud or HPC experience
- Apache Iceberg
- High-volume market data capture
- C++ template metaprogramming
- Education
- Not stated
- Experience
- Hands-on experience building and operating data pipelines at scale
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- options
How to prepare
- Build a reproducible backtest pipeline with versioned data in Python
- Learn to profile and vectorise NumPy and pandas code
- Practise a C++ extension for a hot loop and call it from Python
- Study table formats such as Iceberg or Parquet and how they handle large datasets
- Learn how to judge model performance, not just build it
What to study
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Modern C++ for Quantitative Finance
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Chicago Trading Company and doesn’t handle applications.