Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Frequency Platform

DRW•Chicago, IL

13h•$175,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Unified Platform (UP) organization as part of our efforts to build a mid-frequency platform. UP consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Optimizing decision-making and research, our platform simplifies implementing new ideas, enhancing our competitive edge. As a Senior Software Engineer on one of the Unified Platform teams, you'll be part of a tight knit team of software engineers working closely with internal users (analysts, quants, traders) to develop innovative systems that enable research and trading. You'll experiment with emerging technologies to process data at scale. You’ll wrestle a mountain of data into human understandable insights. We care deeply about preserving a respectful and diverse team culture. We are a group of polyglots and technologists always seeking to find the right tool for each problem, even if that means learning something new or reviving something old. We value business impact and outcomes over process, and we make decisions based on data. We strive to adapt quickly as business priorities change.

Requirements

5+ years of platform-level software development experience
Strong computer science fundamentals; a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Strong experience with Python and/or any modern programming language
Experience processing high volumes of data at scale
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Comfort working within a globally-distributed team

Nice To Haves

Experience building research platforms and/or supporting mid-frequency trading environments
Big data technologies: Spark, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow and/or Argo Workflows
SQL and data warehousing/lake querying patterns
Cloud-native deployments: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Observability: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry
Financial Markets experience

Responsibilities

Build and evolve data and platform capabilities that support mid-frequency trading research workflows
Partner closely with internal customers to understand their needs and build intuitive self-service tools
Develop software for large scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization
Design and operate scalable pipelines and platforms using modern "big data" and lakehouse patterns
Improve reliability, observability, performance, and ergonomics across platform services
Learn about market microstructure, financial instruments, and markets in which DRW participates or wants to participate in