Senior C++ Engineer: Low-Latency Trading Systems
Lever, Inc.
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Job summary
Belvedere Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance market data systems. This role focuses on ingesting and processing raw market data feeds, implementing exchange protocols such as CME and Cboe, and optimizing systems for concurrency, throughput, and ultra-low latency performance.
You’ll collaborate closely with traders, quantitative researchers, analysts, and engineers to solve complex
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience with C++ and Python scripting.
- Strong OO design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience in high-performance, multi-threaded, network programming.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain).
- Excellent written and verbal communication; entrepreneurial mindset.
- Experience with financial markets and options trading is a plus.
- Willingness to coach junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable trading applications.
- Collaborate with traders to deliver scalable, highly available software.
- Improve development processes and reduce operational risk.
- Maintain and troubleshoot critical trading applications.
- Deliver quality systems through automated testing and code reviews.
- Apply industry knowledge in innovative ways.
- Encourage best practices throughout the development process.
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Job description
Belvedere Trading, a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance market data systems. This role focuses on ingesting and processing raw market data feeds, implementing exchange protocols such as CME and Cboe, and optimizing systems for concurrency, throughput, and ultra-low latency performance.
You’ll collaborate closely with traders, quantitative researchers, analysts, and engineers to solve complex
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