Senior C++ Software Engineer
Belvedere Trading5 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable and extensible trading applications for multiple asset classes.
- Build market data systems that ingest and process raw feeds and implement exchange protocols including CME and Cboe.
- Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, analysts, and engineers to deliver highly available trading systems.
- Optimize systems for concurrency, throughput, and ultra-low-latency performance.
- Maintain, support, and troubleshoot critical trading applications.
- Own projects through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Deliver quality software through automated testing and peer code review.
- Improve development efficiency, reduce operational risk, and promote engineering best practices.
- Coach junior engineers and contribute to peer learning.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience with C++ programming and Python scripting.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with high-performance, multithreaded, and network programming.
- A degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience with financial market concepts, including options trading and engineering.
- Ability to build scalable, architecturally sound solutions and take full ownership of projects.
- Demonstrated success delivering automated trading systems is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Willingness to coach junior engineers and learn from peers.
Benefits
- Interviews are conducted virtually by phone or video during the virtual recruiting process.
- No travel is required.
- Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours is required, with occasional on-site attendance before the start of business.
About Belvedere Trading
Belvedere Trading is a privately held proprietary trading firm and options market maker that builds in-house, low-latency software to trade equity index, ETF, commodity, and interest rate options. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, it earns revenue from market-making and directional trading across U.S. derivatives markets, with teams developing models, FPGA-accelerated systems, and risk tools to identify and capture pricing inefficiencies.