2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions supporting diverse trading activities.
- Own data products from initial concept through stable production.
- Design, build, and maintain batch-processing and real-time streaming systems for time-series datasets.
- Develop APIs and data-access methods for fast retrieval of historical and live data.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, reliability, and system scalability.
- Provide on-call support as needed.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience using Python, Java, or C++ and the ability to work comfortably across multiple programming languages.
- Experience working directly with end customers to scope and deliver production systems in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience with financial markets, especially delta one, store of value, or FICC options trading.
- Experience with Linux-based, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systems.
- Experience with pipeline orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Dagster.
- Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka, data lake platforms such as Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg, and relational databases.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong problem-solving, risk-identification, communication, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Group 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.
- Annual base salary range of $175,000–$225,000.
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.