2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software and infrastructure for quantitative financial research.
- Accelerate the research lifecycle from data engineering through feature generation and analysis.
- Integrate diverse data sources including blockchains, exchanges, and data vendors.
- Build integrations with blockchain infrastructure, data management solutions, and data-analysis libraries.
- Perform unit, functional, and integration testing.
- Work independently and within a small team while maintaining a strong user focus.
- Provide on-call support as needed.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Python.
- Experience building complex, maintainable, and safely refactorable systems in modern Python.
- Hands-on experience managing large, evolving timeseries data.
- Working knowledge of type safety and type systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong initiative, independent project ownership, and motivation to continue learning.
- Contributions to open-source crypto projects are a bonus.
- Production experience operating full or archive blockchain nodes at scale is a bonus.
- Experience collaborating with quantitative researchers is a bonus.
- Working knowledge of high-level machine learning concepts and lifecycle is a bonus.
- Experience with functional programming and immutable design principles is a bonus.
- Practical knowledge of major blockchain types and clients is a bonus.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401k with discretionary employer match.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.
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.