[Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer

[John Hunter]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Steve Schwarz <steve at agilitynerd.com> wrote:

> I was just making the distinction between developing for a software firm vs.
> developing software within a trading firm. They are different environments.
> Nothing more, nothing less. I have no experience with software development
> w/in a trading firm so I can't comment positively or negatively about
> them. Since I worked at TT I know the high caliber of people working there
> and the technical skills they bring to developing their products.

I work at a trading company -- it's a blast.  Best job I ever had.
I've recruited people on this list to work here too -- they seem
pretty happy too.  My group is fast paced, we code in python all day,
we get real time feedback on our work, everyone is pretty friendly.
Our company is also open source friendly -- one of the things I
discussed with them when I was hired was my desire to remain lead
developer of matplotlib and they were supportive since they were heavy
users of OSS, and wanted to be supporters as well.

I don't think you can paint any industry with a single brush -- it
depends on the people you work with.

JDH