Java Software Engineer (Prop Trading)

This firm pride themselves on hiring exceptional individuals that have consistently exceeded the bar – both educationally and professionally. If you have a passion to design and develop some of the most complex prop trading software within one of the most exciting trading teams in the world, you are encouraged to apply!

Responsibilities:

• Build out real time trade management and risk analysis algorithms and visualization tools.
• Write performance sensitive code and algorithms.
• Support the trading desk’s research & analysis workflows - utilizing and extending DRW’s in house data analysis infrastructure.
• Work directly with traders, developers, and researchers in a tight knit team to develop things like low latency trading infrastructure, tools, web UI, and trading strategies.

Requirements:

• Java – at least 5 years’ experience writing Java servers running on Linux.
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business critical applications.

Preferred:

• Trading industry experience is preferred but not required.
• C/C++ ability to maintain and integrate native code – e.g., integrating a C++ library into a Java system.
• Web UIs – you should be able to write UI code to present most of this firms’ tools to users.
• Rust – this firm uses Rust where performance matters.
• Python – 3+ years of professional script development experience