The Role
The Mid-Level Software Engineer at Valkyrie will lead core application projects, ensuring design integrity and performance in financial trading environments.
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What You’ll Do:
As a Mid-Level Software Engineer at Valkyrie, you will join our interdisciplinary team to conceptualize and author the technologies that power our trading activities in financial markets. Moving beyond simple implementation, you will take primary ownership of core applications, driving their roadmaps and ensuring long-term stability. As an integral member of a nimble company in a fast-paced environment, you will contribute to the full project lifecycle, from initial design discussions to live production support. Working closely with traders, quants, and other engineers, you will help translate stakeholder requirements into technical solutions. Your role is critical to Valkyrie’s bottom line, requiring the vision to solve immediate technical challenges while maintaining the integrity of our broader trading infrastructure. At Valkyrie, you will have an immediate impact by working on our growing queue of critical trading applications.
What You’ll Need:
- Professional Maturity: At least 2 years of full-time experience in a software environment with a history of delivering well-designed code in a production system.
- Technical Mastery: Exceptional proficiency in C++ or C# across multi-threaded, server-client architectures. You should be comfortable moving from concept to execution without needing granular design guidance.
- Project Leadership: Proven track-record of taking full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, and iterate) of complex projects.
- Systems Thinking: Deep knowledge of how individual applications interact within a larger ecosystem (networking, distributed state management, latency optimization), with the ability to diagnose issues that span multiple points of infrastructure.
- Technical Tooling: High proficiency with Git (branching strategies, merge conflict resolution), the command line (Bash/PowerShell scripting), and advanced debugging and profiling tools to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Operational Fluency: Comfort with both Windows and Linux environments and an entrepreneurial attitude that allows you to onboard new technologies quickly.
- Proactive Communication: Comfort resolving uncertainty through direct communication and a proactive approach to unblocking yourself and your teammates.
- Detail-Oriented Mindset: A deep interest in the financial industry and the vision to solve today’s bugs while building for future scalability.
- Must have valid, ongoing, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored or self-initiated immigration filings.
What You’ll Get:
- Competitive salaries and performance bonuses
- Top-tier medical and dental coverage
- Relocation assistance packages
- Generous vacation policy
- Training opportunities and continuing education
- Catered lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Group outings and company parties
- Casual dress environment
Salary range
- $160,000 - $192,500 a year
- This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Our Vision
- Valkyrie’s vision is to be an organization where curious, driven, and innovative people are able to compete and win in the world’s most competitive landscape – the financial markets. Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win. We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.
Top Skills
Bash
C#
C++
Git
Powershell
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The Company
What We Do
Valkyrie Trading, LLC was formed in Chicago in 2011 with the intent of embracing trading opportunities and technology in a modern marketplace. Positioned in the heart of the derivatives trading capital of the world, our firm is dedicated to tackling the complex and practical challenges offered by today’s dynamic financial markets by building high-performance automated trading systems.
