2 days ago
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build a comprehensive data platform extending the existing pricing system.
- Ensure consistent prices across warehouse queries, live streams, and the gRPC API.
- Enable clients to load snapshots and transition to live updates without gaps or duplicates.
- Lead high-volume and/or low-latency data processing projects covering ingestion, storage, and distribution.
- Scale ingestion pipelines across single and multiple nodes.
- Operate and support data products with time- and correctness-sensitive delivery requirements.
- Make architectural decisions and evaluate appropriate technologies for different system components.
Requirements
- Significant experience building data products and leading projects from design through production operation.
- Experience making and explaining architectural and technology choices.
- Relevant experience with event streaming, change data capture, open table formats, and stream and batch processing.
- Examples of designing or operating high-volume, low-latency, distributed, or correctness-sensitive data systems.
- Strong generalist engineering capabilities and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively.
- Prior Elixir or financial-domain experience is not required, but interest in both areas is expected.
- Excellent listening and communication skills, with humility, adaptability, and respect for teammates.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401k with discretionary employer match.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.