Software Engineer at Belvedere Trading, LLC in New York, NY

Summary: Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm that specializes in providing liquidity to the market through market-making activities. The Software Engineer role focuses on designing, building, and supporting high-performance trading systems, offering engineers early in their careers meaningful ownership and exposure to complex technical problems. Responsibilities: - 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 Required Qualifications: - 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 Required Skills: Software development lifecycle, Data structures, Algorithms, Object-oriented design, Performance optimization, Reliability engineering, High availability systems, Intellectual curiosity Benefits: Discretionary bonuses, A variety of benefits