UP - Analytics/Middle Office - Quant Developer

DRW • Chicago, IL

21h

About The Position

The UP - Analytics/Middle Office team is seeking a Quant Developer to help expand its technical capabilities and impact across the firm. The team builds and maintains services that calculate analytic measures across asset classes, predict theoretical market outcomes based on user-defined what-if scenarios, and return analytics for any time horizon. The role collaborates closely with risk managers, trading desks, stakeholders, and quantitative teams to measure option and rate sensitivities and build applications to monitor, manage, and report analytics.

Requirements

• Experience using applied mathematics, including linear algebra, optimization, and numerical methods.
• Strong understanding of statistics and probability.
• Experience quantitatively modeling financial products and derivatives.
• Fluency in functional, object-oriented, or imperative programming languages.
• Competence in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with at least one of Elixir, Python, Java, or C#.
• Familiarity with at least one systems-level programming language: C, C++, or Rust.
• Familiarity with pricing, risk management, and portfolio analytics.
• Familiarity with exchange-traded financial assets, statistics, or financial engineering.
• Knowledge of data structures and the design and analysis of algorithms.
• Ability to learn, adapt, and grow; demonstrate humility, respect, and trust; drive projects independently while collaborating; and apply strong problem-solving, debugging, listening, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders and quantitative teams to design and implement complex financial modeling solutions.
• Use expertise in finance and quantitative analysis to architect robust, scalable analytics systems.
• Write readable, well-tested code across multiple languages, paradigms, and platforms.
• Collaborate with business, development, IT, and trading support teams.
• Provide on-call support as part of a team-wide rotation.
• Communicate with users to provide support, assist with testing, and ensure their needs are understood.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
• Group medical insurance.
• Pharmacy coverage.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• 401(k) with discretionary employer match.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Health savings accounts.
• Flexible spending accounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed