2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software and infrastructure for quantitative financial research.
- Accelerate the research lifecycle from data engineering through feature generation and analysis.
- Integrate diverse data sources including blockchains, exchanges, and data vendors.
- Test software at unit, functional, and integration levels.
- Work independently and within a small team with a strong user focus.
- Provide on-call support as needed.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Python and experience building complex, maintainable, and safely refactorable modern Python systems.
- Hands-on experience managing large, evolving time-series data.
- Working knowledge of type safety and type systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, initiative, independence, and motivation to learn.
- Preferred qualifications include open-source crypto contributions, production blockchain node operations at scale, collaboration with quantitative researchers, machine learning lifecycle knowledge, functional programming, immutable design principles, and knowledge of blockchain types and clients.
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.