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Summer Intern

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Job Type:
Internship
Location:
Chicago, IL USA
Date Posted:
April 30, 2025

About Spartak Trading LLC

Spartak Trading is a proprietary trading firm that is technology-driven, deploying our capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments, and strategies, in financial markets. Spartak Trading is based in Chicago and is a member firm of CME Group and Eurex Exchange.
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Spartak Trading LLC is a privately held, proprietary trading firm in Chicago, and we have memberships at the CME Group and Eurex exchanges.  Spartak maintains a low profile and doesn’t advertise or solicit customers. Over the past few years, we have developed our proprietary trading systems for internal use at various exchanges and we are looking to expand our development team through internship programs and recruitment at various universities.

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The Role

Spartak Trading is seeking ambitious students who are looking to showcase their passion for programming. Open to upperclassmen working on a degree in computer science. During the summer program, you will be working directly with senior programmers and traders, to shape our infrastructure and build supporting software, processes & tools as needed. Throughout the experience, it will be a first-hand look of what a future job in the industry looks like in addition to exploring your interests in the trading world.

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Responsibilities

  • Working closely with senior traders and developers to efficiently load and process large market data captures, analyzing market microstructure
    as directed by senior traders (python, possibly DuckDb).
  • Assist senior developers in reducing latency in production trades, analyzing and tuning performance on modern CPUs, using LIKWID or similar libraries.
  • Performance analysis and tuning at the system level, to reduce jitter.

Qualifications

Must have

  • Must be attending university or graduated with a bachelor's degree

Nice to have

  • C++ familiarity is a plus.
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