The Wolverine companies comprise a number of diversified financial institutions specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. We are recognized as a market leader in derivatives valuation, trading, and value-added order execution across global equity, options, and futures markets.
Data Engineer
Location
Illinois
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$80K - $120K / year
Job Description
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Chicago, IL
Description
We are seeking a motivated, self-directed, and technically outstanding data engineer to join our team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data pipelines that are critical to our business. The ideal candidate enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. You should be comfortable supporting our developers, data analysts, and traders to ensure data delivery is consistent, high-quality, and secure.
Hours
- Hours for this position will be 5:30 AM CST to 2:30 initially and are expected to shift to the evening at a later date.
Location
- Our office is in Chicago, and a Chicago based employee is preferred. However, due to the non-standard working hours required, we will consider a remote employee with the right experience and skillset
What You'll Do
- Pipeline Development: Design, construct, and manage scalable data pipelines.
- Architecture: Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
- Optimization: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
- Data Modeling: Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture and database schemas
- Gather requirements, design solutions, iterate on implementations with peers and business partners, participate in code reviews, and deliver products in a timely manner
- Troubleshoot and solve the most complex problems escalated by support staff, developers, or traders
- Provide insights on and help prioritize tasks to optimize, modernize, and simplify our system on your own initiative, as well as ways to improve usability and scalability
- Document the requirements and usage of tools and systems
- Keep abreast of emerging technologies, new language features, and new APIs or tools
What We're Looking For
- Have 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role
- Languages: Expert-level SQL and proficiency in Python, C#/.Net, or some other programming language
- Broad technical knowledge with strong conceptual understanding of Linux sysadmin (bash)
- Be organized, self-directed, and dependable. Be able to manage your own workload and provide reasonable estimates for task completion
- Have superb analytical and problem-solving skills
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to convey design decisions in both technical and layman's terms
- Familiarity with data pipeline workflow tools like Apache Airflow or similar
- Background in performance tuning for data systems, including caching, indexing, and database optimization
Why Join Us
Our flat organizational structure promotes teamwork across the Firm and offers easy access to senior staff. While we work exceptionally well as a team in the office, our bonds are further strengthened through company events, activities and giving back. Volleyball, soccer, hockey, 5K runs, picnic, parties, and trivia nights provide friendly competition and build better relationships. By getting out of our usual environment and doing out-of-the-ordinary things together, we foster creativity and broaden our imaginations to accomplish new challenges.
Benefits:
- Highly competitive salary & bonus opportunity
- 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
Additional Perks:
- Free breakfast and lunch from our in-house kitchen with rotating menus (including snacks!)
- On-site gym with a subsidized membership
- Frequent company outings
- Opportunity to give back to organizations that help individuals in need in the Chicagoland area
Professional Development:
- In-house education team - classes and resources are offered for continuous learning opportunities
- Mentorship Program through your first six months of employment
The base compensation range for this role is approximately $80,000-$120,000 contingent on experience. Wolverine Trading's total compensation model includes base salary and an annual discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- 401(K), 401(K) matching, Company-sponsored outings, Company sponsored family events, Dental insurance, Disability insurance, Volunteer in local community, Family medical leave, Fitness stipend, Free daily meals, Generous parental leave, Generous PTO, Company-sponsored happy hours, Health insurance, Highly diverse management team, Job training & conferences, Open door policy, Life insurance, Charitable contribution matching, Mean gender pay gap below 10%, Mentorship program, Paid volunteer time, Onsite gym, Open office floor plan, Paid holidays, Paid industry certifications, Pair programming, Paid sick days, Partners with nonprofits, Performance bonus, Promote from within, Recreational clubs, Lunch and learns, Relocation assistance, Remote work program, Restricted work hours, Free snacks and drinks, Team based strategic planning, OKR operational model, Continuing education available during work hours, Mandated unconscious bias training, Vision insurance, Wellness programs, Mental health benefits, Diversity employee resource groups, Hiring practices that promote diversity, Fertility benefits, Employee resource groups, Employee-led culture committees, Meditation space, Mother's room, Bereavement leave benefits
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