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. 

We are looking for an outstanding Software Engineer with diverse skills to join our Risk Development and Operations team. The Risk team is responsible for developing tools to manage position, market, and derived data to calculate risk measures such as option greeks, VaR, and PnL across broad time and modal domains. While previous experience working the in the trading/finance industry is beneficial, we're looking for talented software engineers, not specific industry experience. 

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on development, design, and testing of proprietary applications
• Work on a small team as a self-starter
• Test at the unit, functional, and integration level
• Working on legacy code as well as green field development
• Provide on-call support as needed
• Collaborate with various software, IT, and trading support teams
• Code in multiple languages and across multiple platforms

Qualifications:

• Capable of collaborating on ETL processes and consuming their results in batch and real-time
• Professional experience with distributed systems
• Proficient in distributed version control systems
• Practiced in imperative, object oriented, and functional languages

 Familiarity with:

• More than one of the following languages: Elixir, Elm, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Julia, Clojure
• More than one of the following languages: Ruby, JavaScript, Python
• At least of one of the following languages: C, C++, C#
• PostgreSQL, the database and the query language
• Data structures and design/analysis of algorithms
• Analysis of concurrency and parallelism for speed/space performance tradeoffs
• Exchange traded financial assets, statistics, or financial engineering
• Front-end behavior organization frameworks such as React, Ember, and Angular 2

Personal traits:

• Strong initiative and a proven track record of independently driving projects to completion
• Takes an active interest in software craftsmanship with a desire to learn and explore programming languages that are new to them
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong attention to detail