DRW

trading

SoftwareEngineer-Risk

$150–175k Chicago, Illinois, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Software Engineer - Risk at DRW. Skills: API, service, application platforms, risk management, analytics. Designing, developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API, service, and application platforms. Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level”

What You'll Achieve.

calculate portfolio sensitivities and value-at-risk (VaR); predict theoretical market outcomes; return risk reports

Industry & Context.

trading
Problems you'll solve

problem-solving skills

Eligibility Requirements

on-call support

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience with financial terminology, VaR methodology, multiple varieties of analytic measures, Designing software for detail-oriented but non-technical finance users, Fluent in functional, object-oriented, or imperative programming languages, Competent in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Elixir, Python, Java, C#, C++, Rust, Parquet, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Pricing, risk management, portfolio analytics, Exchange-traded financial assets, statistics, financial engineering, Data structures, design/analysis of algorithms, LLM-assisted development

Nice to Have

previous experience in the trading and finance industry

What You'll Do.

developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API

and application platforms

and integration level

Code in multiple languages

Provide on-call support

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating with various business, development, IT, and trading support teams; collaborating with teammates

Communication Scope

communication skills

Process & Methodology

independently driving projects to completion

Full Job Description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus. The UP - Risk team is looking for an outstanding Software Engineer with diverse technical and interpersonal skills to join us in the next step of our development as we significantly expand our technical capabilities, enabling us to have an even greater impact across the firm. This team builds and maintains services which: calculate portfolio sensitivities and value-at-risk (VaR) across many asset classes predict theoretical market outcomes based on user-defined what-if scenarios return risk reports for any time horizon We collaborate closely with risk managers and trading desks to measure option and rate sensitivities and create applications to monitor, manage, and report analytic measures. While previous experience in the trading and finance industry is beneficial, we're looking for talented software engineers with or without industry-specific expertise. Responsibilities: Designing, developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API, service, and application platforms Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level Code in multiple

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