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Early Career Talent Partner - Technology & Platform

Belvedere Trading · Chicago, IL · $70,000–$90,000 a year · Full time · Talent

Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a recruiting season where you had to balance many requisitions at once.

What they are checking: Whether they can manage volume and priorities without letting the candidate experience suffer.

Tell me about a time you turned around a poor candidate experience.

What they are checking: Whether they notice and fix problems that could hurt the firm's reputation on campus.

How do you stay current on what technical students care about when choosing a first job?

What they are checking: Whether they stay connected to students and adapt the firm's pitch as the market changes.

What would you do

How would you recruit strong early career software engineers when big tech companies compete for the same students?

What they are checking: Whether they can position a proprietary trading firm's technology work in a way that appeals to engineers.

How would you partner with engineering managers to design a fair technical interview process?

What they are checking: Whether they can help create consistent, job-relevant assessments rather than just scheduling interviews.

An engineering team keeps rejecting candidates you think are strong. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can use data and calibration discussions to align with hiring managers on the bar.

How would you explain what a platform engineering intern does at a trading firm to a student who has never heard of market making?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the business well enough to describe the work clearly and accurately.

How would you build a more diverse pipeline of technology candidates?

What they are checking: Whether they have practical, specific ideas for reaching underrepresented engineering students.

About the work

What do you look for in a new graduate engineer's resume, and what signals do you think are overrated?

What they are checking: Whether they understand technical hiring well enough to screen fairly and spot real ability.

How would you use data to decide which universities and events are worth the investment?

What they are checking: Whether they measure recruiting results and shift resources based on what actually produces hires.

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The full job description

As published by Belvedere Trading.

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. Our People Team department focuses on delivering employee-first solutions to the business. We go all-out to understand and support our team member's needs, leverage data to gain insights and trends, and advance our human-capital-related applications for efficiency and consistency. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.  The People Team is comprised of Employee Experience, People Operations, Talent, and People & Development. These groups work closely together to bring in the best talent for Team Belvedere and from day one, make sure that all team members have all the tools they need to succeed and develop through their tenure. We believe university and early career hiring helps our company look at problems in alternative ways, integrate fresh perspectives, and innovate. We're currently looking for an Early Career Talent Partner to own intern, entry-level, and early career hiring for our Technology & Platform team, building the pipeline of engineers who will build and scale the systems our trading business runs on. This role will be responsible for attracting and hiring high-potential colleagues, developing quality relationships with technical student groups, and building a strong employer brand among the college communities that produce top engineering talent. You will own stakeholder relationships with Technology & Platform leadership and strategically partner with the business to drive hiring and lead best practices in technical talent acquisition.

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