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Company

We are a privately held proprietary trading firm specializing in providing liquidity to financial markets in the US and around the world. We combine the latest technology and robust risk management with a talented group of professional traders to employ a disciplined and adaptable approach to trading across a diverse range of asset classes.

Culture

We are a team of extraordinary people who have created an environment that is directly correlated with our firm’s success. We share a vision guided by common principles - collaboration, communication, and innovation, which empower our entrepreneurial employees to think critically, share ideas, and solve problems. Our proven track record of long term stability, our flat organizational structure, and work life balance are all essential to supporting our culture and dynamic workplace.

Trading

We execute various trading strategies across listed derivatives and securities markets on numerous global exchanges. We use our own capital and do not answer to third party investors or clients. Through our passion for trading, we are committed to continually exploring new markets and generating new strategies to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Technology

Our proprietary trading platform is built to respond to the needs of an ever-changing and competitive trading environment by providing speed, innovation, transparency, and accuracy. Our technology serves the needs that span from sophisticated algorithms to outright trading and gives us the ability to implement a vast array of complex strategies and provides us with the edge required to thrive in today's dynamic trading environment.

Open positions

Trading Assistant
Systems Engineer
Technology Operations Engineer
FPGA Design Engineer

Eagle Seven is always interested in meeting qualified candidates who are interested in becoming a member of our team. If you do not see an open role that fits your profile, please apply with our General Application

General Application

Trading Assistant - Chicago

Eagle Seven, LLC is seeking a Trading Assistant who will be responsible for supporting all aspects of trading desk operations.

The right candidate will have a passion for capital markets, work well in a collaborative team setting and be a motivated self-starter. Flexibility to work Asian/European shift is also required for this role.

Primary Responsibilities include:

Monitoring algorithmic trading strategies
Performing post trade analysis on a variety of algorithmic trading strategies
Performing start of day position and activity reconciliations
Completing end of day PNL and position reporting
Communicating with internal technology groups regarding trading system issues
Assisting quantitative traders in performing research for new trading strategies

Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, engineering, finance, or related field
Strong analytical, quantitative and problem solving skills
Experience with Python is preferred
Proficient in Excel
Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion in making decisions
2-3 years (academic or professional) financial experience preferred, but not required

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
Company Contributions to a Health Savings Account (with enrollment into a High Deductible Health Plan)
Dental coverage through Principal
Vision coverage through VSP
401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
Company Paid Life Insurance
Company Paid Disability Insurance
Paid Time Off
Flexible Spending Account
Pre-tax Transit Benefits
Complimentary Lunch and Beverages

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Systems Engineer - Chicago

Eagle Seven Technologies, LLC is seeking a Systems Engineerto help lead technical design, planning, and implementation of our hardware and Operating System strategy. This role will serve as a technical expert with direct influence over the design and implementation of our trading systems. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, have a strong sense of ownership and be driven to provide technical solutions to business problems.

Primary Responsibilities include:

Providing technical expertise and guidance to structure a hardware strategy including standards, life-cycle periods, vendors, and capacity
Serving as technical operating system expert for Linux and Windows; directing migration to new OS standards, maintaining images and OS patches
Establishing guidelines and methods for the installation and management of host operating systems
Evaluating new hardware and software technologies; talking to hardware vendors, stay informed and up-to-date on next generation trading hardware, and making recommendations on new hardware platforms and other network technologies
Developing new applications and scripts to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency

Maintenance, administration and capacity planning of data storage solutions
Maintaining the monitoring and alerting systems

Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field
5+ years’ experience in System Engineering/Administration or related field
Experience with scripting languages and source control; Python and Git preferred
Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef or Salt
Experience administering Windows Active Directory and Group Policies
Strong working knowledge of Hyper-V / SCVMM
Strong knowledge of storage technologies (EMC, Isilon, NetApp, XIV) and file systems (NFS, GlusterFS, ZFS)
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
Motivated to identify and problem solve issues in a timely manner
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to work independently and in a team
Knowledge of the financial industry preferred

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
Company Contributions to a Health Savings Account (with enrollment into a High Deductible Health Plan)
Dental coverage through Principal
Vision coverage through VSP
401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
Company Paid Life Insurance
Company Paid Disability Insurance
Paid Time Off
Flexible Spending Account
Pre-tax Transit Benefits
Complimentary Lunch and Beverages

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Technology Operations Engineer - Chicago

Eagle Seven Technologies, LLC is seeking a Technology Operations Engineer. Our Operations Team is at the intersection of trading, development and systems administration and plays an integral part of our firm’s success. The team manages the deployments, scheduling, monitoring and troubleshooting for multiple trading strategies. We are seeking an experienced individual with a strong sense of ownership to help us solve complex problems and improve our processes and tools. The ideal candidate is someone who can anticipate challenges and help build tools to make the environment work easier, faster, and more reliably. Must have the ability to work rotating shift schedule.

Primary Responsibilities include

Monitor the trading system and work to identify and resolve issues
Identify, diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems to keep trading online
Work with Risk and Trading desks to understand and facilitate trading requirements
Manage daily changes and communicate status to the company
Automate software distribution and deployments for Linux and Windows applications to speed up our application deployments
Build new tools to manage our system and reduce effort and errors

Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
Financial industry experience is required
1-3 years of experience using, managing, or developing on Linux systems
Fluent with Windows and Linux platforms
Proficient in a scripting language, preferably Python
Comfortable with distributed version control like Git, Mercurial, or Subversion
Familiar with configuration management systems like Salt, Puppet, or Chef
Familiarity with monitoring tools, such as Solarwinds, Nagios, Cacti, etc.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
Motivated to identify and problem solve issues in a timely manner

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
Company Contributions to a Health Savings Account (with enrollment into a High Deductible Health Plan)
Dental coverage through Principal
Vision coverage through VSP
401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
Company Paid Life Insurance
Company Paid Disability Insurance
Paid Time Off
Flexible Spending Account
Pre-tax Transit Benefits
Complimentary Lunch and Beverages

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FPGA Design Engineer - Chicago

Eagle Seven Technologies, LLC is seeking a FPGA Design / Verification Engineer to become an integral member of the hardware engineering team dedicated to the development of HDL solutions for our high frequency, low latency electronic trading systems. The candidate will participate in projects that involve both software and hardware. The tasks will include all design lifecycle sub-processes, including: technical specification, design, implementation and testing. The candidate will be expected to model, simulate and analyze complex systems and processes, including: research and implementation of advanced concepts, technologies, products, processes and/or methods. In addition candidates will be creating and implementing test plans for validating various designs within the team. The role will be a part of the development team and provide the individual with exposure to traders and strategy developers. The ideal candidate should have a passion for finance and a strong sense of good software design. The successful candidate will also be a self-starter, have a strong sense of ownership and be driven to provide technical and intellectual solutions to business problems.

Primary Responsibilities include:

Production of technical specifications and functional designs
Implement designs using Verilog / System Verilog
Simulating, Debugging and Verification of designs
Participate in design and architecture decisions for modules and FPGAs
Participate in Hardware Process Development and Improvement
Researching / Analyzing designs, concepts, processes, technologies and/or products

Skills and Experience:

Bachelor or Masters in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other related disciplines
Ability to contribute as an individual as well as a part of the team to share responsibility for development of high frequency, low latency trading systems
HDL Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, VHDL or VHDL-2008
Experience with FPGAs and CPLDs from vendors: Xilinx, Altera, Microsemi (Actel), and/or Lattice
Experience with FPGA design and Verification Tools
Experience Integrating embedded systems
Experience with Riviera, Modelsim, or Questasim simulators
Experience with Synopsys tools for design
High-reliability design and verification
Understanding of TCP/IP, Datapath Pipelines, State Machines, Arithmetic Operations
Experience with advanced verification techniques: Assertion-based Verification, UVM, and Constrained Random Verification
Programming and Scripting skills: C, C++, TCL, bash, PERL, Python, batch
Simulink Autocoding to HDL
Control Theory implementations on FPGA / ASIC
Digital Signal Processing on FPGA / ASIC
Experience with exchange protocols such as FIX/Fast, OUCH, ITCH, etc.

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
Company Contributions to a Health Savings Account (with enrollment into a High Deductible Health Plan)
Dental coverage through Principal
Vision coverage through VSP
401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
Company Paid Life Insurance
Company Paid Disability Insurance
Paid Time Off
Flexible Spending Account
Pre-tax Transit Benefits
Complimentary Lunch and Beverages

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550 West Jackson Blvd, Suite 1400

Chicago, Illinois 60661

Phone Number

312.801.8500

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