Software Engineer, Commodities Engineering

Job Description

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join their commodities engineering team in Chicago. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing proprietary trading software, leveraging the firm's existing tools and infrastructure. This role requires close collaboration with traders, developers, and researchers to develop infrastructure, tools, visualizations, and trading strategies, as well as supporting the trading desk's research and analysis workflows.

• Work directly with traders, developers and researchers
• Support the trading desk’s research & analysis workflows

Requirements:

• An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software’s users
• Experience owning the end-to-end (frontend and backend) delivery of the solution
• Strong communication skills and a team-oriented mentality
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business critical applications
• Java (at least 5 years of full stack experience writing Java servers running on Linux) OR Python (3+ years of professional software engineering experience in building and maintaining Python libraries and applications)
• Solid foundation in engineering fundamentals

DRW offers:

• Comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts