Senior Trading Software Engineer
Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker founded in Chicago. It develops proprietary trading models, software, and risk-management systems, and operates across Chicago, Boulder, New York, and Singapore.
About Belvedere Trading, LLC.
Belvedere Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker specializing in financial markets, including options, indices, commodities, equities, and equity strategies. The company uses proprietary trading models, software platforms, quantitative research, and risk-management capabilities to identify market inefficiencies and execute trading strategies. It also provides capital, infrastructure, operational support, and strategic guidance to backed trading groups and partners, and may acquire established trading teams or their intellectual property. The company recruits and trains quantitative traders, researchers, software engineers, and operations professionals through its Belvedere Trading University program.
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About the Role
Work with traders and quantitative researchers to design and evolve automated options trading infrastructure across trading logic, system performance, and FPGA integrations. The role emphasizes real-time systems, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and scalable engineering practices.
Requirements
- Experience with full-cycle software development in trading or other high-performance domains
- 5+ years of professional experience in modern C++; Java experience is a plus
- Strong network programming skills, including raw sockets, latency tuning, and packet handling
- Ability to debug, profile, and optimize complex systems
- Self-directed approach to identifying and solving system issues
- Experience in fast-paced environments where reliability and performance are critical
- Proactive approach to anticipating risks and performance bottlenecks
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Responsibilities
- Solve low-latency trading problems and optimize performance-critical code
- Collaborate with trading engineers to improve system performance and scalability
- Contribute to application development, network optimization, and platform tuning
- Partner with hardware and networking teams to drive low-latency performance gains
- Use data to guide decisions and identify optimization opportunities
- Design and implement performance-critical solutions for real-time trading
- Enhance performance architecture for evolving trading strategies
- Build platform features and refine existing systems for high-speed trading