Software Engineer, Cboe
Test
+ Incentive compensation packages & Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
2+ days a week in office
Market infrastructure and tradable product provider
Be an early applicant
Market infrastructure and tradable product provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Incentive compensation packages & Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a trusted, inclusive global marketplace that enables people to pursue a sustainable financial future.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for engineers who can architect test solutions, write robust automation code, and contribute to our continuous integration pipeline
- This requires detailed analysis of technical and financial business requirements to design test scenarios that realistically represent real-world trading activity
- Strong programming experience in Python
- Proven experience designing and developing automated test frameworks and test infrastructure
- Linux/Unix proficiency as an end user and ability to perform basic system administration tasks
- Version control experience with Git or similar systems
- SQL experience (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience with continuous integration tools
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and testing methodologies
- Track record of writing maintainable, well-documented code
- Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to articulate technical concepts clearly
- Detail-oriented with excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues
- Preferred: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Preferred: Experience in one or more relevant financial areas (market data, order management, algorithmic trading, financial systems integration and protocols, etc.)
- Preferred: Understanding of networking concepts and distributed systems
What the job involves
- Cboe Europe is seeking a highly motivated, technically skilled Software Engineer in Test to join our Quality Engineering team
- This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining sophisticated automated test frameworks and test cases for our proprietary trading systems
- You will work as part of an engineering team, writing production-quality code to ensure the reliability and performance of one of Europe's largest equities and derivatives trading platforms
- This is a software engineering role with a testing focus—not a manual testing or UI testing position
- As a Software Engineer in Test at Cboe Europe, you will be responsible for ensuring quality across our trading infrastructure, which includes three equities exchanges, one derivatives exchange, one trade reporting facility, and a platform for systematic internalizers
- You'll program these tests into automated code that continuously validates new releases as part of our CI/CD methodology
- Designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests, frameworks and test infrastructure using object-oriented programming principles and production-quality code
- Extending and improving our proprietary Python-based test automation framework
- Analyzing complex technical and business requirements to design comprehensive test scenarios
- Creating detailed test documentation and test plans for new features
- Identifying, documenting, and tracking defects; verifying fixes resolve issues completely
- Performing root cause analysis on test failures and system issues
- Supporting and maintaining test environments, ensuring they remain stable ("green")
- Contributing to continuous integration pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
- Looking for opportunities to improve overall product quality and testing efficiency
- Working closely with software development, business, and trade desk teams
- Supporting complex projects involving multiple Cboe systems
- Providing input into project scheduling and estimation
- Participating in code reviews and design discussions
- Participating in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) and knowledge sharing
Our take
Cboe provides market infrastructure and tradable products, including options, offering trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants globally. Promising to operate an inclusive and trusted marketplace, its services ultimately enable participants to access a sustainable financial future.
The company is truly global, offering solutions across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and meeting the specific needs of its customers from where they are based. Its reach is echoed in the creation or acquisition of entirely new markets and market models, many of which served as the first of their kind, and hence have grown to become some of the largest, most relied upon out there.
Cboe intends to build upon the momentum that it continues to snowball year-on-year, growing its presence across North America whilst refining its latest innovations. For its participants, it will find new ways to enhance the overall equities markets while improving the customer experience on its platforms.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Fred Tomczyk
(CEO)Previously worked as Lead Independent Director for Sagen. Also sits on the Board of Directors for Unity Willis Towers Watson and The World Federation of Exchanges.
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