Senior Software Engineer - Trading Data Fabric

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions. 

High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. 

Trading Data Fabric (TDF) builds and manages a data and research platform that enables Belvedere to capture and analyze high-volume, high-quality data in Google Cloud. We manage pipelines that capture real-time market data, trading actions, and complex internal valuation and position data. These stream into real-time trading engines and our data warehouse for historical analysis.

Our Senior Software Engineers are responsible for system development, pipeline implementation, data warehouse architecture, data quality automation, and operational oversight. They participate in all aspects of our software development lifecycle, from design to testing to deployment, and have both a love of technology and an interest in the financial markets.

Don’t know a lot about finance or trading? No sweat. Belvedere Trading University (BTU) program will teach you everything you need to know once you join the team.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and development of features and capabilities within our proprietary research platform for engineers, quants, traders and executives 
• Identify and leverage cloud, commercial and open-source technologies to accelerate our roadmap 
• Efficiently facilitate decisions by analyzing risk, effort, cost and benefit
• Solve our most complex technical challenges while leaving a legacy of documented and reliable code
• Innovate in both greenfield and existing projects, driving impactful improvements and new feature development 
• Support the continuous operation of live systems capturing and processing critical trading business data 
• Mentor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Work in a collaborative team environment encouraging constant learning and innovation from all levels of the company to build the future of technology and finance
• Participate in our in-house learning and development curriculum via peer-led lectures to obtain knowledge about the fundamentals of trading and our proprietary trading systems 

What You'll Need

• Delivery Leader – Previously led delivery of new APIs and data centric Services to production
• Technical Expert – Deep knowledge of Python and JVM languages. Experience with streaming frameworks like Spark, Beam, Flink and app-dev frameworks like Spring
• Cloud Native – Intuitive understanding of Cloud technologies for compute, storage and security
• Data Specialist – Experience integrating traditional databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and APIs with modern Data Warehouses (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake), Streaming Frameworks (e.g. Pulsar)
• Performance Minded – Expertly track and optimize performance and costs with tools, metrics and scalable designs
• Business Mindset – Engage with traders and analysts across the company to better understand their needs and design solutions that will be readily adopted
• Strong Communicator – Engage with teams and business units, sourcing new ideas and reaching consensus on shared initiatives 

Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.

Core Values

The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Iterative Innovation, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.

Our Stance

Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.

Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.

Through our efforts to provide a safe environment for you and our team members, all interviews for this position will be conducted virtually via phone or video. We will continue to actively hire and onboard new team members virtually through the remainder of the year unless otherwise noted. Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to recruiting@belvederetrading.com.

Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours with the ability to be on-site prior to the start of business on occasion 

Amount of Travel Required: None

Sponsorship: Not available for this position