Multi-asset market maker pricing securities and derivatives via automated trading
Old Mission is a Chicago-based market maker running automated trading on a C++ and Python core, with Protocol Buffers, WebSockets and OpenGL pointing to custom low-latency and visualization tooling. Its adoption of Bazel alongside a legacy mix of Subversion, Mercurial and three CI systems suggests a build-system consolidation push. Hiring is accelerating and weighted evenly across engineering, research and trading-side finance roles.
Old Mission is a privately held, multi-asset market maker founded in 2008 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm prices individual securities and complex derivatives and provides liquidity and risk transfer to exchanges, brokers and institutional investors. Its focus areas span automated trading, arbitrage and in-house software development. The company employs 201–500 people and hires in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Old Mission's stack centers on C++, Python and Java, with React, TypeScript and Redux on the front end, PostgreSQL and MySQL for data, Docker and Kubernetes for deployment, and Bloomberg for market data. It is adopting Bazel.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating, concentrated in engineering, quantitative research and trading-focused finance roles, mostly at senior and mid levels, across the United States and the United Kingdom.
Job posts point to pricing model development, next-generation trading algorithms, options research infrastructure, automated trading infrastructure optimization in Python, and rollout of new trading systems.
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