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Wolverine Trading

Proprietary trading, asset management, execution services

ETF Trading Support Analyst

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Chicago, IL, USA
In Person
Data & AnalyticsData Analysis

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience working with SQL, relational data, or similar tools.
  • Experience analyzing data and drawing clear conclusions.
  • Experience with Python or another object-oriented programming language sufficient to build lightweight tooling.
  • Exposure to automation technology such as Airflow or other open-source alternatives.
  • Ability to break complex problems into logical steps.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
  • Willingness to ask questions, learn quickly, and take ownership.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
Responsibilities
  • Master the rules, configurations, and controls that drive exchange-traded fund trading activity.
  • Support product onboarding, trading eligibility, venue configuration, exchange-traded fund/reference relationships, and market-data dependencies.
  • Work with traders and stakeholders to develop strategy enhancements, controls, and workflows.
  • Use market data and order execution data to evaluate strategy behavior and develop execution-quality metrics.
  • Build repeatable analyses to identify configuration issues, data-quality problems, implementation defects, and missed opportunities.
  • Automate data-quality checks, configuration validation, and strategy-health monitoring.
  • Support testing and feature deployments by defining expected outcomes and monitoring production results.
  • Maintain documentation of strategy rules and configuration dependencies.
  • Build practical tools to enhance team productivity.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Tableau or comparable data-visualization tools.
  • Experience with Apache Arrow or comparable in-memory data technologies.
  • Experience with C# or comparable object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience with advanced Excel, automated testing, monitoring, or data validation.

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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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

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