Risk Developer
DV Trading8 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain real-time risk systems for PnL tracking, VaR and exposure calculations, dashboards, analytical tools, alerting, and monitoring.
- Own deployment, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure, environment management, observability, and incident response for risk applications.
- Improve system reliability, performance, availability, low latency, and stability during market hours.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and debugging.
- Develop applications integrating LLM APIs for automation, analysis, and workflow improvements.
- Build responsive frontend interfaces for visualizing and interacting with risk metrics.
- Collaborate with risk developers, quantitative analysts, and market risk analysts to implement financial models.
- Write clean, documented, and tested code and participate in code reviews and design discussions.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional full-stack development experience; financial industry or proprietary trading experience is preferred.
- Strong Python proficiency for data processing, backend logic, and model integration.
- DevOps experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Linux administration, and monitoring or logging tools; Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code experience are a plus.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants, agentic development workflows, and applying them safely and effectively.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs, including prompt design, tool or function calling, and evaluation.
- Experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
- Proficiency in SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL and/or NoSQL stores such as Redis.
- Understanding of data structures, APIs, and real-time data processing, plus familiarity with real-time data visualization.
- Exposure to quantitative models or collaboration with quants is preferred.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Tech Stack
AngularAnsibleDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactRedisSQLTerraformVue.js
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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.