Engineering Manager

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 186056 - 253200

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

WHO WE ARE

Headquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade PEAK6 Capital Management is a proprietary options trading firm that has been defining the industry for more than 25 years. While many firms have come and gone PEAK6 Capital Management has consistently delivered liquidity to the options market. We thrive due to our firms special blend of financial acumen ability to manage risk and cutting-edge technology.

PEAK6 Capital Management was brought to life through insatiable curiosity entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to win. We offer incredible opportunities for smart passionate team players to solve complex problems and take calculated risks. We were among the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology in our trading business. Today we continue to leverage our technical ingenuity and operational excellence across several investment areas spanning early-to-mid stage growth capital operational control trading and eSports. Throughout the years weve built and operated several financial technology firms and we continue to evolve.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

Responsibilities: Responsible for leading and managing a cross functional team that creates high quality trusted data for our trading business. Utilize extensive
knowledge in financial engineering and economics to further develop and
improve our tech-based solutions for our traders to identify and validate
new signals as well as sourcing commodity datasets from vendors. Be
responsible for the following: Direct daily operations of department with
Product Managers to help analyze workflow establish priorities develop
standards and set deadlines to write User Stories and fuel discovery for
the team; Meet with department heads managers supervisors vendors
and the team to continuously encourage to invest in their delivery process
to remove friction and increase developer experience; Collaborate with
staff engineers and architects to define technical standards and direction;
Identify and remove bottlenecks as well as connecting engineers across
teams; Support teams current delivery of working software while
balancing time by also collaborating with product managers and traders to
prepare the backlog of upcoming projects; and Drive the career
development of team members including mentoring junior engineers
aligning opportunities to engineers to make cases for promotions and
continuously giving feedback. Position supervises 6 employees.

Educ./experience: Masters degree or foreign equivalent in computer and informationtechnology financial engineering or related field plus two (2) years of
post-baccalaureate experience as an Investment Advisor Market Research
& Strategy Analyst or related position within the finance field.
Experience must include: R Python Matlab; Excel for financial
modeling; Dataiku; Tableau; SQL; and Linear and non-linear portfolio
optimization techniques.

Salary range: $186056 to $253200/year

Location: 888 7th Avenue New York NY 10106

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OUR REWARDS

We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits including healthcare benefits (medical dental and vision EAP) competitive PTO 401k match parental leave and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. As a hybrid workforce we offer our employees the ability to work remotely up to two days a week. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills experience and office location. This position also may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in addition to a range of health & wellness benefits.

PEAK6 is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin age disability veteran status marital status or any other protected characteristic. Our hiring practices ensure that all qualified applicants receive fair consideration without regard to these characteristics.

PEAK6 is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace for all candidates including those with disabilities. We are dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process please contact our HR department at We will work with you to provide the necessary accommodations to ensure your full participation in our hiring process.

Required Experience:

Manager

WHO WE AREHeadquartered in the historic Chicago Board of Trade PEAK6 Capital Management is a proprietary options trading firm that has been defining the industry for more than 25 years. While many firms have come and gone PEAK6 Capital Management has consistently delivered liquidity to the options m...

WHO WE ARE

ABOUT THIS ROLE