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Lead a Position Management team, guiding architecture and design, ensuring system quality, and mentoring developers while collaborating with risk teams and traders to implement solutions.
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 looking for a Position Management Team Lead who can blend together leadership and management skills with software development expertise and knowledge of an options market making risk systems. The ideal candidate will have at least 7+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years leading a software development team or project. You will get to lead a team to work and collaborate with Belvedere quants to apply engineering solutions, and tackle challenges in programming, technology, mathematics and finance. Your initial responsibilities will include guiding the architecture and design of the team’s systems, ensure the production system has high quality and stability, guide the career path of the developers on the team, and do some hands-on development to push projects forward.
What You'll Do
- Work and collaborate with Belvedere’s risk team and traders to implement position management tools and solutions
- Design extensible trading application
- Ensure quality of changes going out to production systems
- Maintain, support and troubleshoot critical trading application
- Apply industry knowledge and technical skills in new and innovative ways
- Encourage the use of best practices throughout the development process
- Mentor and guide the development and career path of developers on the team
- Conduct performance reviews on a regular cadence
What You'll Need
- 7+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of experience leading a software development team or project
- Understanding of basic options market making theory
- Comfortable in multiple programming languages, including C++, C#, and Python
- Applies and holds high-quality standard for code and design
- Well versed in all areas of delivering technical solutions
- Ability to take full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, iterate) of projects
- Great written and verbal communication skills
- Able to develop and empower other developers to optimize output and reach their full potential
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, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.
Compliance
For our trading positions and certain engineering roles, the SIE and Series 57 licenses are required; Belvedere Trading will provide comprehensive study materials and allocate dedicated time during the onboarding process to ensure your success in obtaining these certifications.
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].
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
Top Skills
C#
C++
Python
Belvedere Trading Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
We are located in the Chicago Loop right next to Ogilvie and Union Train Station for easy access to all of Chicago's favorite neighborhoods. Our office is right on the Chicago River with great lunch places to eat and dining alfresco in the summer.
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