2 months ago
Montréal, CanadaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Build scalable and performant software using software-engineering best practices.
- Facilitate discussions about code implementation, testing, and software architecture.
- Collaborate with operations and trading teams to keep production systems in optimal condition.
- Research technologies that can enhance trading systems.
- Drive projects and lead new initiatives.
- Resolve challenging design and coding issues with the development team.
- Work with complex real-time market data while ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Explain technical challenges, trade-offs, and potential solutions to traders and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 2 to 10 years of experience building software systems.
- Solid understanding of software-engineering principles and best practices.
- Strong knowledge and experience in Python or C++; experience with both is an asset.
- Passion for financial markets and interest in global events and their influence on market behavior.
- Exceptional attention to detail and focus on data quality and correctness.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for explaining technical concepts and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB, ELK, Docker, TCP, HTTP, or Regex is an asset.
- Experience with relational databases is an asset.
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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.