DRW is a diversified, technology-led principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 25 years, so has DRW – growing to include real estate, cryptocurrencies, venture capital and several industry acquisitions. With more than 800 employees at our Chicago headquarters and six global offices, we work together to solve interesting problems and capture opportunities. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity, and constant collaboration, with some of the smartest, most passionate people you will meet. 

DRW has an opening on its Treasury Development team. The Treasury developers focus on applications for calculating margin requirements, managing capital, and various reporting functions essential to DRW. The Treasury team is small and new engineers will immediately be tasked with making meaningful contributions to our systems. Candidates should have strong initiative and have proven experience in production operations, technical teamwork and independently driving projects to completion. Developers are expected to gain an intimate understanding of the business by working closely with the Treasury staff to create technical solutions to solve pressing business problems.

At DRW we strive for an environment where technologists are free to pursue solutions to the problems of the business free from arbitrary management constraints and supported by excellent technical resources. All development teams at DRW believe in rapid deployment and feedback, automated testing, and cohesive, transparent, lightly-coupled service architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, programming, and testing a variety of applications
• Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level
• Working on legacy code as well as green field development
• Learning and promoting new technologies
• Providing on-call support as needed
• Collaborating with various software teams, the IT department, trading desks, and other business units
• Working in multiple languages, particularly Ruby

Desirable Experience:

We are looking for strong developers of any stripe, but familiarity with the below will give candidates a leg up in working on Treasury systems.

• Front and back-end development experience
• Ruby, Sinatra, Clojure
• Git
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB, Queueing Systems, Distributed Systems
• Financial services, particularly derivatives, is a plus