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title: 'Junior Software Engineer at Valkyrie Trading'
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# Junior Software Engineer at Valkyrie Trading

- **Company:** Valkyrie Trading
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2021-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/valkyrietrading/b9907031-0625-49f9-9fbe-7b5618e3640c

## Job description

What You’ll Do:

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will join our interdisciplinary team to conceptualize and author the technologies that power our trading activities in financial markets. As an integral member of an aggressive and nimble company, you will have the opportunity to tackle challenges in programming, networking, technology and finance. Your initial responsibilities will include the development and improvement of our growing queue of critical trading applications that add significant value to Valkyrie’s bottom line.

What You’ll Need:

- Bachelor’s degree or a strong foundation in computers and programming
- Exceptional ability to produce clean, efficient code in C++ or C#
- Experience in building complete, multi-threaded server-client applications
- Knowledge of database and network technologies a plus
- Ability and willingness to take full ownership (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, iterate) of projects
- Comfort resolving uncertainty and communicating for issue resolution
- Willing to work on a collaborative team
- Exemplary attention to detail and a deep interest in the financial industry
- Vision to solve today’s problems while building future solutions
- Entrepreneurial attitude with a keen attention to both structure and detail
- Comfort with both Windows and Linux environments
- Be eligible to start a full-time role within the January 2027 – August 2027 timeframe.
- Must have valid, ongoing, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored or self-initiated immigration filings.

What You’ll Get:

- Competitive salaries and performance bonuses
- Direct mentoring from senior software engineers
- Top-tier medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Relocation assistance packages
- Generous vacation policy
- Training opportunities and continuing education
- Catered lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Group outings and company parties
- Casual dress environment

Salary range

- $140,000
- This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Our Vision Valkyrie’s vision is to be an organization where curious, driven, and innovative people are able to compete and win in the world’s most competitive landscape – the financial markets.   Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win.  We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.

## About Valkyrie Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valkyrie Trading builds high-performance automated trading systems to embrace trading opportunities in modern derivatives markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: James Yeung (Co-Founder and Partner)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Capital Markets / Proprietary Derivatives Trading
- **Target customers**: The firm trades for its own account (not client-facing). It operates in B2B market infrastructure and is a market-making/prop trading firm.
- **Mission or purpose**: To tackle complex and practical challenges in dynamic financial markets by building cutting-edge technology from the ground up, with a focus on quantitative innovation and data-driven decision-making.

## Products & Services
- **Automated Trading Systems**: Proprietary, in-house developed high-frequency and algorithmic trading software for derivatives (options, futures).  
- **Quantitative Research & Modeling**: Data science-driven strategy development that bridges trading and software teams.  
- **Market Making & Execution**: Real-time trading operations across global derivatives exchanges.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total employees ~44 (as of 2026); headcount growth -1.9% YoY.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external funding rounds disclosed. Partners include James Yeung, Sean Tseng, Brian Severyn.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for Junior Software Engineer, Junior Derivatives Trader, and Trade Support Engineer roles (2026-2027 start dates). LinkedIn follower growth of +19.7% year-over-year. High employer rating (4.4/5, 22 reviews) and strong culture/career scores (4.6/5).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Collaborative, flat structure**: “No one is a cog in the machine” – developers, traders, and quants work closely together, iterating daily.
- **In-house technology**: All trading systems built from scratch, giving full control over speed and optimization.
- **Data-centric culture**: Decisions guided by quantitative analysis, not intuition.
- **Location in Chicago’s derivatives hub**: Access to talent and proximity to CME/CBOE.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through talent**: Prioritizing campus recruiting for junior roles (no internships for 2026-2027, but a potential Trading Boot Camp is being explored).
- **Technology & automation**: Continually improving trading system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- **Global expansion**: Distributed workforce (United States, Namibia, Germany, Canada) and European hours trading desk.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly collaborative, data-driven, and entrepreneurial. Employees report very high culture and career satisfaction (4.6/5).
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: All current job listings are **on-site** in Chicago, IL.
- **Benefits**: Health insurance (PPO/HMO/HSA), dental, vision, daily lunch, discount gym memberships, performance bonuses.
- **Engineering culture**: Developers work on real-time trading systems, solving challenging problems in programming, networking, and latency optimization. Direct impact on firm profitability.
- **Compensation**: Competitive – Senior Software Engineer ~$165K/year, Senior Trader ~$174K/year (based on public salary data from LinkedIn).

## Sources
1. [valkyrietrading.com – What We Do](https://www.valkyrietrading.com/what-we-do/)
2. [valkyrietrading.com – Careers & Benefits](https://www.valkyrietrading.com/careers/)
3. [LinkedIn – Valkyrie Trading](https://linkedin.com/company/valkyrie-trading)
4. [Lever – Valkyrie Trading Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/valkyrietrading)
5. [Built In Chicago – Valkyrie Trading Profile](https://www.builtinchicago.org/company/valkyrie-trading)

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