Quantitative Software Engineer (DV Commodities)
DV Trading4 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build quantitative trading tools including signal research, backtesting frameworks, and strategy monitoring.
- Develop and productionize fundamental energy-market models covering supply and demand, inventory, flows, curves, and spreads.
- Build analytics and visualization tools for markets, positions, and PnL drivers.
- Design pipelines to ingest, clean, store, and access market, fundamental, and alternative data.
- Integrate models and tools with event-based risk, market-data, and pricing platforms.
- Test, monitor, document, and iteratively improve models and tools based on trader feedback.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, or another quantitative discipline.
- At least 2 years of professional experience building quantitative trading tools, models, or analytics in a financial or commodities setting.
- Strong Python skills in a scientific-computing environment, including tools such as NumPy, pandas, SciPy, or statsmodels.
- Grounding in statistics, time-series analysis, and data modeling; machine-learning experience is a plus.
- Experience building data pipelines, working with large datasets, and using SQL, NoSQL, or tick databases.
- Experience with data visualization and dashboarding tools such as Plotly/Dash, Streamlit, or Grafana.
- Knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and object-oriented programming; Java or C++ is a plus.
- Experience with Unix and Git.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Docker, Airflow, or Luigi.
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to work closely with traders.
- Energy-market, futures, and swaps domain knowledge is a plus.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- HSA, FSA, and dependent-care options.
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance, plus voluntary LTD, life, and AD&D insurance.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Retirement plan with employer match.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About DV Trading
DV Trading is a privately held proprietary trading firm that makes markets and deploys its own capital across equities, futures, options, and commodities. Headquartered in Chicago and founded in 2006, it operates globally and spun out of a large brokerage in 2016. The firm provides liquidity to exchanges and offers hedging solutions to commodity producers and users; affiliates include broker-dealers and a cryptocurrency market-making business.