About Us
BlackEdge Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. As a market maker, our primary role is to provide liquidity in financial markets by always being willing to buy and sell. No matter the market conditions, we are ready to facilitate the objectives of investors. Over the last decade we have established a presence as a major player in multiple US markets, and are excited to expand our footprint further.
BlackEdge's success is built on a foundation of deep collaboration between trading and technology. Our traders lean on their quantitative education, options theory training, years of experience, and internal drive to push us forward into new markets and products. Our tech team leverages a breadth of experience in technical innovation with a disciplined, iterative, scientific approach to ensure they build exactly what our traders need. Together we chase excellence by working to get a little bit better, every single day.
Our Space
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CAREERS
New to Trading?
Top notch traders are essential to our success. Our rigorous onboarding program comprises technical courses taught by senior traders, a mock-trading environment, and practical on-desk training. Great traders come from many backgrounds. We seek out the best people in their respective fields and help grow their skillset so they become valuable members of the BlackEdge team.
Our trading team helps develop new trading strategies, software, and techniques for options market making. Ideal candidates have a foundation in math, engineering, or computer science and love solving challenging problems. We pride ourselves not only on our trading and decision making, but also our ability to leverage and constantly improve our modeling and technology.
Trader’s responsibilities include pricing options and managing inventory risk, analyzing short- and medium-term trading results, and driving longer-term projects to evolve our trading strategy, tools, and system.
New to Financial Technology?
Just like our traders, members of our technology team often arrive to BlackEdge with no trading industry experience. Our engineers have come from Big Tech companies, small web startups, and PhD programs. While our core trading system is primarily written in C++ and C#, experience in those languages is far from a prerequisite for success. What matters most for success in our industry is how your approach to engineering technology systems, your passion to grow and learn, and your excitement about competing in the trading industry.
BlackEdge’s small size and collaborative environment enable every member of our technology team, from fresh intern to seasoned partner, to scale their impact across every trading team at the firm. In an industry where latency is measured in nanoseconds, bandwidth in gigabits, and storage in terabytes, unique and interesting challenges abound.
CULTURE
We know our success is driven by the individuals that make up our firm. We are committed to providing the best environment for success on and off the trading desk. Our office is located in the trendy Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago. Out of the office, we regularly meet up for happy hours, dinners, and social events across the city.
During the day, we offer several benefits for a productive environment:
Lunch Program and fully stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks
Casual dress code
Massage therapy program
In-office fitness center and Golf Simulator
Remote Work
We recognize in the post-covid era that remote workers are going to be an important part of our company. For entry-level employees, we currently require an in-office start to help build your skillset and learn how to trade the BlackEdge way. For more senior staff, there is an option to work remotely. Our tech team has built an exceptional virtual environment that allows us to connect with employees across the globe.
Giving Back
BlackEdge Capital is committed to giving back to the community. Since its founding in 2009, Blackedge Capital has been a corporate sponsor of many local and international organizations whose missions range from creating safe drinking water in Ethiopia, to helping impoverished youth in our local community of Chicago.
BlackEdge is committed to being a carbon neutral entity. We seek to build a company with driven, responsible employees. Giving back to our community and the world at large is a reflection of that goal.
See what we’re up to
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Come see us today at the University of Wisconsin! @UWMadEngr https://t.co/L2VIDZtniv
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We look forward to seeing all the students at UM today! @UMengineering @UMich https://t.co/kVXOtk3Ee1
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Come see us on campus next week! 9/12-University of Michigan 9/13- Notre Dame University 9/15- University of Wis… https://t.co/DzRclDAtB9
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Proud to be a part of Luries Children’s Hospital Step Up for Kids event! @LurieChildrens https://t.co/Tfo7Ngz0vA
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