2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Embed with trading desks to understand problem spaces, domain models, requirements, and trade-offs.
- Build specialized trading solutions and maintain and extend the central trading platform.
- Own products from prototype through stable production.
- Work across greenfield and legacy systems using C++, Python, and TypeScript.
- Develop ergonomic, performant, extendable, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Provide on-call support as needed.
Requirements
- Up to 7 years of experience using C++ and Python and comfort working across multiple programming languages.
- Experience working directly with end customers to scope and deliver production systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Ability to solve complex problems, identify risks early, and minimize complexity.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills when working with stakeholders and engineers.
- Experience in financial markets, especially delta-one store-of-value and/or FICC options trading.
- Experience with Linux-based, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systems.
- Functional programming experience is a plus.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.