Trading Operations Engineer
About the job
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with experience investigating critical issues in a live production environment.
- Experience using a relational database to store, manipulate, and access data.
- Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to identify issues or trends.
- Ability to work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Driven to iteratively improve systems and processes.
- Diagnose and resolve technical operational issues on live trading systems.
- Perform intraday troubleshooting of production systems and communicate status clearly to stakeholders.
- Set up and maintain monitoring tools across server hardware and software using in-house and third-party tools to ensure system stability.
- Maintain production trading infrastructure, including databases, transaction servers, gateways, and web servers.
- Certify new exchange links, including Financial Information eXchange and other protocols.
- Work with vendors, including exchanges and electronic communication networks, to resolve production issues.
- Collaborate with traders, software developers, and network engineers to deploy new strategies, reconfigure existing strategies, and track changes.
- Partner with trading stakeholders and software developers to identify and implement systems and process improvements.
- Create and maintain performance reports for individual clients and the system as a whole.
- Document support processes, known issues, and workarounds.
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- Working knowledge of scripting, regular expressions, or the Financial Information eXchange protocol.
- Familiarity with Linux scripting.
- Familiarity with Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram Protocol and network packet captures.
- Understanding of trading industry concepts and terminology.
About the company
Wolverine Trading is a Chicago-based financial firm with three main activities: proprietary trading (market making and valuation arbitrage), asset management, and execution services for large institutional trades. In proprietary trading, it provides liquidity and seeks price differences across global markets using market making and arbitrage strategies. Wolverine Asset Management runs investment funds for clients to grow assets through diverse strategies, while Wolverine Execution Services handles efficient, best-price execution of client orders. It earns revenue from trading profits, management fees, and execution commissions, differentiating itself through its combination of market expertise and technology to serve institutional investors and hedge funds with integrated solutions; its goal is steady, reliable liquidity and disciplined investment management.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
1994
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Built In Chicago posted Data Scientist and trader roles on September 5, 2026.
- Wolverine Trading posted Chicago hiring for Electronic Options Trader on June 19, 2026.
- SE C filings show active broker-dealer operations, with the latest FOCUS report filed March 2, 2026.
What critics are saying
- Nasdaq quoting-rule changes on September 1, 2026 raise compliance complexity and monitoring costs.
- Built In Chicago listed fresh openings on September 5, 2026, signaling ongoing talent pressure.
- A bad volatility event can blow through models, trigger losses, and force exchange suspensions.
What makes Wolverine Trading unique
- Since 1994, Chicago-based Wolverine specialized in listed options market making.
- Wolverine quotes across 2,500 securities and derivatives, backed by 100 million daily messages.
- Trading, engineering, and risk sit together, supporting rapid model-to-production deployment.
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Benefits
- Highly competitive salary bonus
- Generous paid time off and flexible scheduling
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits for single coverage
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- Retirement Plans: 401K and Roth 401K
- Profit sharing plan
- Long and short-term disability