Senior Software Engineer - Trading Data Fabric

Belvedere Trading • Chicago, IL

288d • $200 - $250

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• $200 - $250 a year
• Discretionary bonuses
• Access to a variety of benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior