Software Engineer, Commodities Engineering

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

A rapidly expanding global trading desk is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team in Chicago. In this role, you’ll be expected to design, develop, and test proprietary trading software. The firm has built up a significant set of tools and technology, which you will have access to. You will be expected to pragmatically focus on business value by leveraging our existing tools and infrastructure wherever possible.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Build out real-time trade management and risk analysis algorithms and visualization tools.
• Write performance-sensitive code and algorithms.
• Support the trading desk’s research & analysis workflows - utilizing and extending DRW’s in-house data analysis infrastructure.
• Work directly with traders, developers, and researchers in a tight-knit team to develop infrastructure, tools, visualizations, and trading strategies.

You’ll be right at home if you have:

• An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software’s users.
• Leadership skills and a team-oriented mentality.
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business-critical applications.

Required technical experience:

• Java – at least 5 years of full stack experience writing Java servers running on Linux.
• Python - 3+ years of professional script development experience.

Nice to have:

• Trading industry experience is preferred but not required.
• C/C++ - ability to maintain and integrate native code – e.g. integrating a C++ library into a Java system.
• Web UIs – you should be able to write user interface code to present the majority of our tools to users.
• Rust – we use Rust where performance matters.

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