Software Engineer
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
21-04-2025
Job Specifications
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
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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 ... Know more
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