DRW Trading Group-posted 3 months ago
$175,000 - $175,000/Yr
Intern
Chicago, IL
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

As a Software Developer Intern, you will build advanced trading and risk applications leveraging cutting-edge technology. DRW enables our Software Developer Interns to develop computationally intensive software under the guidance of senior technologists with the goal of deployment during your ten weeks. While your days will have you immersed in complex projects directly driving DRW's progress, your evenings will be spent exploring the city with organized social events to truly discover what it is like to live and work in Chicago.

  • Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary software development solutions across the firm.
  • Create decoders to receive raw packet data from various exchanges and translate it into a more accessible form.
  • Build normalizers which take decoded data and build a book for each instrument traded on that exchange.
  • Develop applications to facilitate communication around executed trades to our compliance team.
  • Identify innovative solutions to complex problems and advocate for their implementation to your team.
  • Conduct robust research using a data driven approach to employ statistical analytics on large data sets.
  • Collaborate with other software developers, quantitative traders and researchers as well as business analysts in cross-functional team environments.
  • Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Machine Learning or any related science discipline with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027.
  • Exposure to network programming (TCP/IP), multi-threaded applications, computational intelligence, algorithms, real-time programming or GUI programming.
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
  • Eagerness to learn and apply what you have learned, and to know the impact of your code.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical reasoning skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Excellent software development skills in C++, Python, or Java and a deep curiosity to learn and absorb new technologies quickly.
  • Meaningful projects with challenging tasks advised by a software engineer.
  • Community activities including educational, social and team-building events.
  • Housing provided in fully furnished apartments located close to the office.
  • Mentorship from experienced professionals in the field.
  • Educational opportunities including an options course framed from a developer's standpoint.
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