DRW
About the Company
At DRW, we identify and capture trading and investment opportunities globally. What sets us apart is our diversified approach—trading across many asset classes and instruments, in markets around the world, with horizons from seconds to years. We succeed by leveraging technology, research and risk management.
We offer the best of both worlds: the opportunity and spirit of a startup and the benefits and stability of an established, experienced firm. Our employees work hard to solve interesting problems, and their results are rewarded. We value continuous learning—from our outcomes, from the environment and from each other. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity, and constant collaboration, with some of the smartest, most passionate people you’ll meet.
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Chez DRW, nous identifions et saisissons les opportunités de négociation et d'investissement au niveau mondial. Ce qui nous différencie, c'est notre approche diversifiée : nous négocions sur de nombreuses classes d'actifs et d'instruments, sur des marchés du monde entier, avec des horizons allant de quelques secondes à plusieurs années. Nous réussissons en nous appuyant sur la technologie, la recherche et la gestion des risques. Nous offrons le meilleur des deux mondes: les opportunités et l'ésprit d’une entreprise en démarrage, et les avantages et la stabilité d'une entreprise établie et expérimentée. Nos employés travaillent dur pour résoudre des problèmes intéressants et leurs résultats sont récompensés. Nous valorisons l'apprentissage continu – de nos résultats, de l’environnement et de chacun de nous. C’est un lieu où les attentes sont élevées, la curiosité est profonde et la collaboration est constante, et où l’on retrouve quelques-uns des individus les plus intelligents et les plus passionnés que vous puissiez rencontrer.
Listed Jobs
- Company Name
- DRW
- Job Title
- Senior Software Engineer
- Job Description
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DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 30 years, so has DRW – maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital. With over 2000 employees and offices around the world, we work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Unified Platform (UP) organization. UP consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Optimizing decision-making and research, our platform simplifies implementing new ideas, enhancing our competitive edge.
As a Software Engineer on one of the Unified Platform teams, you'll be part of a tight knit team of software engineers working closely with internal users (analysts, quants, traders) to develop innovative systems that enable research and trading. You'll experiment with emerging technologies to process data at scale. You’ll wrestle a mountain of data into human understandable insights.
We care deeply about preserving a respectful and diverse team culture. We are a group of polyglots and technologists always seeking to find the right tool for each problem, even if that means learning something new or reviving something old. We value business impact and outcomes over process, and we make decisions based on data. We strive to adapt quickly as business priorities change.
What You’ll Do In This Role
Develop tools to enable the business to rapidly embrace new opportunities in global markets
Partner closely with internal customers to understand their needs and build intuitive self-service tools
Develop software for large scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization
Work with a team to maintain and extend our global markets reach
Learn about market microstructure, financial instruments, and markets in which DRW participates or wants to participate in
This Could Be a Good Fit If You
Are motivated to solve hard problems with deceptively simple solutions
Think a lot about user experience and try to really understand end users’ jobs and pain points
Think a lot about APIs, modular design and testing
Love refactoring and keep trying until you find a better answer
Enjoy making the “right way to do it” the path of least resistance
Have made a random tool for yourself…and then peers ask for it…then other teams ask for it…
Are fiercely proud of your project’s reliability, performance and ease of maintenance
Are excited to learn about financial markets, trading, etc.
What We Need On The Team
At least 2-3 years of platform-level software development experience
Strong computer science fundamentals; a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Strong experience with Java, Python or any modern programming language
Experience processing high volumes of data at scale
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Comfort working within a globally-distributed team
A background in some of the following a bonus:
Java experience
Python experience
Ruby experience
Big data technologies: Spark, Trino, Kafka
Financial Markets experience
SQL: Postgres, Oracle
Cloud-native deployments: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Observability: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
London, United Kingdom
On site
01-04-2025
- Company Name
- DRW
- Job Title
- Observability Site Reliability Engineer
- Job Description
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DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
Our Observability team provides mission critical support for many of our centralized logging, metrics and tracing tools used throughout the firm. They manage the deployment and administration of these applications ensuring multi-tenant and highly available operation. In addition, they help interface with other teams to effectively use these tools to get the most out of the data produced. It's a fast-paced, dynamic environment that provides new technical challenges constantly and demands that you learn new things daily.
What You Will Do In This Role
Provide best in class support for our suite of applications
Troubleshoot production system incidents and create artifacts for postmortems to ensure that similar failures in the future are avoided
Develop automation to facilitate administrative tasks supporting the onboarding and maintenance various users and groups
Test and automate upgrades of our applications to remain on our vendor's latest releases
Constantly be improving our own logging, monitoring and alerting practices
Interact with vendor support to debug and drive third-party issues to resolution
Interface with other teams to be an ambassador of good observability practices
Help teams identify data to ingest and how to make use of this data through dashboards and alerting
Required Experience
5+ years of industry experience using various logging and monitoring tools
Coding experience to automate repetitive tasks
Familiarity with CI/CD systems and workflows
Familiarity with git or other version control systems
Persistent drive to improve workflows and make things better
Ability to troubleshoot complex problems
Solid written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work well on a team as well as independently
What Will Make You Stand Out
Experience using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus and other observability tools
Experience using kubernetes to deploy and maintain systems
Experience using Jsonnet or other templating tools to render complex yaml/json
Familiarity with gitops workflows
Solid configuration management concepts and skills
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
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London, United Kingdom
On site
13-04-2025
- Company Name
- DRW
- Job Title
- Software Engineer
- Job Description
-
DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 30 years, so has DRW – maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital. With over 2000 employees and offices around the world, we work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Unified Platform (UP) organization. UP consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Optimizing decision-making and research, our platform simplifies implementing new ideas, enhancing our competitive edge.
As a Software Engineer on one of the Unified Platform teams, you'll be part of a tight knit team of software engineers working closely with internal users (analysts, quants, traders) to develop innovative systems that enable research and trading. You'll experiment with emerging technologies to process data at scale. You’ll wrestle a mountain of data into human understandable insights.
We care deeply about preserving a respectful and diverse team culture. We are a group of polyglots and technologists always seeking to find the right tool for each problem, even if that means learning something new or reviving something old. We value business impact and outcomes over process, and we make decisions based on data. We strive to adapt quickly as business priorities change.
What You’ll Do In This Role
Develop tools to enable the business to rapidly embrace new opportunities in global markets
Partner closely with internal customers to understand their needs and build intuitive self-service tools
Develop software for large scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization
Work with a team to maintain and extend our global markets reach
Learn about market microstructure, financial instruments, and markets in which DRW participates or wants to participate in
This Could Be a Good Fit If You
Are motivated to solve hard problems with deceptively simple solutions
Think a lot about user experience and try to really understand end users’ jobs and pain points
Think a lot about APIs, modular design and testing
Love refactoring and keep trying until you find a better answer
Enjoy making the “right way to do it” the path of least resistance
Have made a random tool for yourself…and then peers ask for it…then other teams ask for it…
Are fiercely proud of your project’s reliability, performance and ease of maintenance
Are excited to learn about financial markets, trading, etc.
What We Need On The Team
At least 2-3 years of platform-level software development experience
Strong computer science fundamentals; a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Strong experience with Java, Python or any modern programming language
Experience processing high volumes of data at scale
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Comfort working within a globally-distributed team
A background in some of the following a bonus:
Java experience
Python experience
Ruby experience
Big data technologies: Spark, Trino, Kafka
Financial Markets experience
SQL: Postgres, Oracle
Cloud-native deployments: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Observability: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
London, United Kingdom
On site
21-04-2025
- Company Name
- DRW
- Job Title
- Senior Software Engineer, Treasury
- Job Description
-
DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity, and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Unified Platform (UP) team. UP consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Within UP, the Treasury team is responsible for building systems that efficiently allocate capital and facilitate centralized, optimal management of firm resources. We work from high-level requirements where programmers are expected to gain an intimate understanding of the business. We strive for an environment where developers have the autonomy to pursue business solutions without arbitrary management constraints. We are a group of polyglots and technologists always seeking to find the right tool for each problem. Broadly, the development teams at DRW believe in rapid deployment and feedback, automated testing, and cohesive, transparent, lightly-coupled service architectures.
You'll Be Right At Home If
You can work alone but prefer working as a team.
You are passionate about providing business impact through technology.
You are comfortable leading large, complex data projects end-to-end.
You thrive on innovation and constantly seek new, creative solutions to existing problems.
You care more about learning and problem-solving than being right.
You focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
You enjoy design, modeling, and programming regardless of the language or platform.
You are excited to directly collaborate with subject-matter experts to build the best solution.
What You Will Be Working On
You'll be helping DRW manage capital efficiently by developing and maintaining simple and robust data pipelines written mostly in Ruby, Python, and Clojure that perform complex analysis on firm and market data.
You will architect and maintain highly resilient systems that sit in the critical path of operations.
You'll build deep domain expertise as you work on problems that touch a variety of asset classes and trading concepts.
You'll find innovative ways to integrate disparate technologies and provide valuable insights to the business.
You'll enable the communication mechanism for that data whether it be alerting, dashboards, ad-hoc querying, or complex data visualization.
You'll work closely with your customers inside the firm to bring reliable, concrete, and introspect-able numbers to support critical firm operations.
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
London, United Kingdom
On site
21-04-2025