Engineer- Data Visualization Platform

About the role

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago. Traders provide liquidity through market‑making across commodities, interest rates, ETFs, and equity index options. The firm invests heavily in proprietary technology, continuously re‑engineering trading models and software systems. Technology teams build high‑performance trading software using a team‑based, holistic approach. The Engineer role focuses on designing and maintaining the platform, tools, and processes that expand adoption and benefits from data visualization, reporting, and research. This includes building best practices in Python and data access for notebooks, live dashboards, and dynamic visualizations, supporting data visualization initiatives across trading and technology teams, overseeing cost, reliability, and removing obstacles to adoption. The ideal candidate will work with existing tools such as Looker, BigQuery, Plotly Dash, and Jupyter Notebooks while helping to evaluate and roll out new best‑of‑breed technologies. Belvedere’s culture is guided by its Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Iterative Innovation, and Passionate Discourse.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain internal reporting applications and analytics solutions.
• Develop scalable frameworks that enable technical traders, quants, and developers to conduct research and build visualizations efficiently.
• Optimize data access and query performance to support reporting and visualization workloads.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand reporting needs, and deliver solutions that support decision‑making.
• Propose long‑term solutions that help capture the momentum of commercial and open‑source technologies aligned with emerging company needs.
• Support and enhance the firm's business intelligence infrastructure, including Looker, Plotly Dash and related BI platforms.
• Lead migration efforts across teams as we upgrade tools, libraries and data sources.
• Stay current with emerging BI and data visualization technologies to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong Python development experience focused on data analytics, reporting, and visualization.
• Experience building reporting applications and business intelligence solutions.
• Proficiency with Jupyter Notebooks and visualization libraries such as Plotly.
• Strong SQL skills, including writing complex queries and working with relational databases.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders across technical and business teams.
• Experience supporting or administering BI solutions across teams and user groups.
• Familiarity with data modeling, dashboard design, and reporting best practices.
• Understanding of modern business intelligence and analytics trends.
• Experience working in a collaborative, stakeholder‑facing environment.

Pay

$150,000 - $200,000 a year, with eligibility for discretionary bonuses.

Schedule

Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours, with the ability to be on‑site prior to the start of business on occasion.