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This role involves designing and building high-performance trading systems, collaborating with traders, and supporting application performance while ensuring code quality and reliability.
Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm with offices in Chicago, New York, Boulder, and Singapore. 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. We operate best within a team environment where we challenge each other to deliver value consistently and share in the success of the company.
Riverside Capital Markets (RCM) is a joint venture between our five founding partners and Belvedere Trading. Our teams specialize in Market Making and Quantitative Trading in Equity & ETF Options, ETFs, Futures and Futures Options. We have teams based in New York, Chicago and remote locations that utilize both internal and external software solutions for trading. We look for savvy individuals and teams who are looking to help build great businesses in the trading landscape.
Our team is seeking a Software Engineer to help design, build, and support high‑performance trading systems. This role is ideal for engineers early in their careers who want meaningful ownership, exposure to complex technical problems, and the opportunity to work closely with quantitative traders and experienced engineers in a fast‑paced environment.
You will contribute across the full software development lifecycle while developing systems that are reliable, performant, and aligned with business objectives. We’re looking for engineers who are intellectually curious and motivated to continually evolve and develop.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and enhance scalable, extensible applications that support real‑time trading across multiple asset classes
- Implement, test, deploy, and maintain performance‑critical systems with a focus on reliability and correctness
- Troubleshoot and support production applications in time‑sensitive environments
- Collaborate with engineers, quantitative researchers, and project stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Write clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code that meets high quality standards
- Analyze and solve complex technical problems, balancing performance, readability, and extensibility
- Participate in code reviews and apply best practices in software design and development
- Continuously learn about trading systems, markets, and new technologies through hands‑on work and team knowledge sharing
What You'll Need
- 1–3 years of professional software development experience (or equivalent internships, co‑ops, or applied project work)
- Experience across multiple phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and support
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design
- Experience building performant, reliable, or highly available systems (academic, professional, or personal projects)
- Ability to reason about trade‑offs and choose appropriate tools or approaches for a given problem
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability for the systems you help build
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and improve
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.
Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
Belvedere Trading New York, New York, USA Office
New York, New York, United States
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