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Sr Software Engineer

CME Group
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/7/2026
CME is relentlessly focused on developing the world's most advanced electronic trading, post trade processing and risk management systems. We are the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives market place providing risk management solutions that help drive the global economy. Our customers include leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations, and individual traders.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual to join the Elysian team, working as a full stack developers on a C#/Typescript based physical commodities based trading platform, running on the Google Cloud Platform using the latest dotnet and related technologies. The successful candidate will be involved in rolling the application out to new customers and new markets, making decisions that shape the future of the software, and will be able to take advantage of multiple GCP training programs and gain valuable cloud qualifications.

Principal Accountabilities

  • System Design and Development:
    • Contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of robust and scalable applications
  • Platform Maintenance and Optimization:
    • Assist with ongoing technical support, troubleshooting, and bug fixes
    • Contribute to the optimization of system performance, scalability, and reliability.
    • Proactively identify and address technical debt and system vulnerabilities.
  • Automation and Efficiency:
    • Contribute to automation initiatives across the team, reducing manual effort and improving processing speed.
    • Develop scripts and utilities for routine tasks, reporting, and analysis.
  • Documentation and Best Practices:
    • Adhere to coding standards, version control, and software development best practices.
    • Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.
  • Troubleshooting application production issues in conjunction with other support staff and development teams
  • Bug management ownership (capturing, assessing and owning the rectification of system issues and bugs reported by clients, developers and release team)
  • Deployment management and automation (Building releases, documenting release notes and ownership of the quality of each release)
  • Participates in story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.
  • Works well in a team, fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation.
Essential Criteria

  • Bachelor's degree (with honours) or equivalent, but substantial relevant experience could substitute
  • Strong knowledge of C# .NET and Javascript/Typescript/React, with demonstrable experience
  • Experience coding in a story-driven, agile environment
  • Strong knowledge and experience of SDLC methodologies; agile is a big advantage.
  • Expertise in Object Oriented Design and Patterns
  • Experience with cloud environments and CI/CD and automated testing

Professional Attributes

  • Proactive and resourceful, action orientated and accountable
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with keen attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Good organizational and time management skills

CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $111,100-$185,100. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

Important Notice: Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more here.

Salary : $111,100 - $185,100

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