Software Engineer, Production Platform
Aquatic Capital Management· Chicago or London
Posted November 8, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Pay
- $150K – $300K per year
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Location
- Chicago or London
- Work mode
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
About this role
Aquatic Capital Management is a quantitative investment manager applying scientific research and technology to global financial markets. This role owns the production platform that moves research and trading systems into live markets, including builds, deployments, observability, and automation across expanding regions.
What you will do
- Own the platform that moves code, models, and data into live trading with automated dependency resolution and safe deployments
- Own build and release tooling including pinning, promotion, and rollback
- Extend deployment orchestration and scheduling across regions
- Build observability into deployments and production services
- Partner with Research and Trading Operations to automate manual processes
- Improve reliability of production systems including alerting and recovery
- Set engineering standards for clean, maintainable, tested Python
What the employer expects
- BS/MS in CS, Engineering or related, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years professional software development (open to range for right candidate)
- Strong Python; familiarity with Java and C++
- Experience building and operating distributed systems, deployment pipelines, or internal developer platforms
- Familiarity with CI/CD, configuration management, workload orchestration (Nomad/Kubernetes), production debugging
- Comfortable in production environments with high uptime/latency/correctness needs
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- Competitive 401k plan
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance
- Wellness programs, casual dress, snacks, lunch, game room, team events
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, competitive paid caregiver leaves
Skills
- Python
- Java
- C++
- distributed systems
- CI/CD
- Nomad
- Kubernetes
- deployment pipelines
- production debugging
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