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# Software Engineer - Risk

- **Company:** DRW - LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Computer-Aided Design, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Web Services, Rust (Programming Language), Parquet, Large Language Models, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Software Version Control, Docker, Elixir, Programming Languages
- **Published:** May 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6817d035a90e7092

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Web services design?, * 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, * 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

## Description

The UP - Risk team is looking for an outstanding Software Engineer with diverse technical and interpersonal skills to join us in the next step of our development as we significantly expand our technical capabilities, enabling us to have an even greater impact across the firm. This team builds and maintains services which:

 * calculate portfolio sensitivities and value-at-risk (VaR) across many asset classes
 * predict theoretical market outcomes based on user-defined what-if scenarios
 * return risk reports for any time horizon

We collaborate closely with risk managers and trading desks to measure option and rate sensitivities and create applications to monitor, manage, and report analytic measures. While previous experience in the trading and finance industry is beneficial, we're looking for talented software engineers with or without industry-specific expertise., * 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, * One of the following programming languages: Elixir, Python, Java, C#, C++, Rust
 * 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
 * Where LLM-assisted development accelerates progress, and where it poses risks


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