Back Office Developer
DV Trading6 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and operate real-time and batch back-office data systems supporting traders, risk management, accounting, operations, and settlements.
- Generate daily reports from overnight data for the firm and traders.
- Design and use database schemas to support reliable data processing.
- Monitor daily jobs and ensure timely dissemination of critical information.
- Maintain the flow of real-time trade data for accurate intraday positions and trade data.
- Own scheduled and batch systems with retries, idempotency, alerting, recovery, and hard start-of-day and end-of-day deadlines.
- Apply automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through.
- Collaborate with engineers and non-engineering stakeholders and mentor junior and mid-level developers.
- Make independent software design decisions and contribute to legacy system modernization.
Requirements
- Senior professional-level Python skills, including typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning.
- Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard operational deadlines.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, migrations, query tuning, and data integrity controls.
- Experience with workflow orchestration such as Airflow and CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated quality discipline through automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through.
- Daily working fluency with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
- Practical experience using LLM APIs for automation or analysis and AI coding assistants with human review.
- Clear written and verbal communication with operations, accounting, settlements, and middle-office staff.
- Ability to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make sound design decisions independently.
- Preferred qualifications include futures and options trade lifecycle knowledge, trading and position platform experience, broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, FIX or drop-copy ingestion, reconciliation and data quality frameworks, audit trails, legacy modernization, Docker, infrastructure as code, observability, on-premises and bare-metal infrastructure, agent patterns, and light frontend development.
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.
- Base salary range of $150,000–$250,000 USD.
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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.