Senior C++ Software Engineer

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.

Belvedere Trading is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance market data systems. This role focuses on ingesting and processing raw market data feeds, implementing exchange protocols such as CME and Cboe, and optimizing systems for concurrency, throughput, and ultra-low latency performance.

You'll collaborate closely with traders, quantitative researchers, analysts, and engineers to solve complex challenges across technology, mathematics, and finance. The ideal candidate has experience building automated trading systems and a proven track record of developing scalable, architecturally sound solutions that directly support business objectives.

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable, extensible trading applications, and deploy successful enterprise-level applications that can be leveraged across a variety of asset classes
• Work alongside traders to develop and deliver scalable and highly available software systems
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our development process and reduce operational risk
• Maintain, support, and troubleshoot critical trading applications
• Deliver quality systems through automated testing and peer code review
• Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
• Encourage the use of best practices throughout the development process

• 7+ years of Experience with C++ programming and Python scripting languages
• A strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in high performance, multi-threaded, network-programming
• Demonstrated success in delivering automated trading systems is a plus
• Ability to take full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain) of projects
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
• Willingness to coach junior engineers in addition to teaching and learning from peers
• A degree in computer science or any related engineering discipline
• Experience with financial market concepts, including options trading and engineering