2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test full-stack applications spanning APIs through user interfaces for digital asset operations.
- Partner with business teams to translate ambiguous problems into technical plans and shipped software.
- Own deployed software end-to-end, including deployment, operations, and on-call support.
- Work across greenfield systems and existing codebases.
- Build and improve tooling and processes involving CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and internal cloud systems.
- Collaborate with software teams, trading desks, and business units.
- Mentor teammates and raise engineering practices on a small team.
- Evaluate and champion useful new technologies where appropriate.
Requirements
- Strong senior-level software engineering experience with crypto or digital-asset systems experience preferred.
- Deep Python expertise is a meaningful differentiator.
- Experience with cryptoassets, digital-asset operations, custody or wallet platforms, or closely adjacent high-stakes money-movement systems.
- Experience with DeFi, smart contracts, staking, or other on-chain systems is desirable.
- Full-stack development experience with Python and FastAPI.
- Strong relational data modeling fundamentals.
- Experience with GitOps and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with job orchestration systems such as Airflow or Prefect.
- Ability to independently drive projects to completion, work from high-level requirements, and engage deeply with business problems.
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About DRW
DRW is a privately held proprietary trading firm that uses its own capital to trade and invest across global markets and asset classes, powered by technology and research. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Chicago, it develops trading systems for strategies ranging from seconds to years and manages its own risk rather than external client money. The firm operates internationally from multiple offices.