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Senior Software Engineer, Risk Infrastructure

DRW is a proprietary trading firm, founded and based in Chicago, IL.

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Senior Software Engineer, Risk Infrastructure

DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 30 years, so has DRW – maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital. With nearly 1500 employees at our Chicago headquarters and offices around the world, we work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It is a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.

The Risk Technology team is looking for an outstanding Software Engineer with skills to develop and maintain
infrastructure and tools to support our Risk Management team. Risk Technology builds applications and
services to acquire position, reference, and market data, calculate analytics, and generate reports used to:

  • Measure the risk of the firm at all aggregation levels and any time horizon
  • Monitor and disseminate risk at appropriate aggregation levels
  • Ensure DRW has risk policies, procedures, and operations that align with industry-accepted best practices
    and standards


We collaborate with risk managers and trading desks to measure option and rate sensitivities and create
applications to monitor, manage, and report risk measures, parameters, and limits. While previous experience in
the trading and finance industry is beneficial, we’re looking for talented software engineers with or without
industry-specific expertise.


Responsibilities:

  • Designing, developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API, service, and application platforms
  • Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level
  • Managing compute resources, storage, observability, and continuous integration/deployment systems
  • Collaborating with various business, development, IT, and trading support teams

Qualifications:

  • Hands-on implementation, management, and operation of infrastructure supporting proprietary applications
  • Experience with relational databases, streaming data stores, and S3-compatible storage
  • Fluent in functional, object-oriented, and imperative programming languages
  • Competent in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes


Familiarity with:

  • More than one of the following tools (or similar): Terraform, Dhall, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
  • More than one of the following tools: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redpanda, Cassandra, Scylla
  • More than one of the following languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Java, C#
  • The culture of Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, and best practices

Personal traits:

  • Possesses the ability to learn, adapt and grow
  • Demonstrates personal humility, respect for others, and trust in their teammates
  • Capable of independently driving projects to completion but prefers collaborating with teammates
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, but has better listening and communication skills

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