Software Engineer - Risk

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API, service, and application platforms
• Testing at the unit, functional, and integration level
• Code in multiple languages, paradigms, and platforms
• Collaborating with various business, development, IT, and trading support teams
• Provide on-call support as part of our team-wide rotation
• Keep open communication with our users for support, testing, and ensuring understanding of their needs

Qualifications

• Experience with financial terminology, VaR methodology, multiple varieties of analytic measures
• Designing software for detail-oriented but non-technical finance users
• Fluent in functional, object-oriented, or imperative programming languages
• Competent in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with one of the following programming languages: Elixir, Python, Java, C#, C++, Rust
• Familiarity with one of the following data formats: Parquet, Delta Lake, Iceberg
• Pricing, risk management, and portfolio analytics
• Exchange-traded financial assets, statistics, or financial engineering
• Data structures and design/analysis of algorithms

Personal traits

• Possesses the ability to learn, adapt and grow
• Demonstrates personal humility, respect for others, and trust in their teammates
• Capable of independently driving projects to completion but prefers collaborating with teammates
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, but has better listening and communication skills

Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $175,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a 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.