Senior Software Engineer, Unified Platform - Analytics - Middle Office

Drw
London, UK
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Data Analysis Clojure Computer Programming Continuous Integration Software Debugging Python (Programming Language) Microsoft Office Object-Oriented Software Development Ruby
+7 more
Scala (Programming Language) TypeScript Erlang Kotlin Software Version Control Docker Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Job description

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 analytic measures across many asset classespredict theoretical market outcomes based on user-defined what-if scenariosreturn analytics for any time horizonWe 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.ResponsibilitiesDesigning, developing and maintaining greenfield and legacy API, service, and application platformsTesting at the unit, functional, and integration levelCode in multiple languages, paradigms, and

Requirements

platformsCollaborating with various business, development, IT, and trading support teamsProvide on-call support as part of our team-wide rotationKeep open communication with our users for support, testing, and ensuring understanding of their needsQualificationsExperience using applied mathematics (linear algebra, optimization, numerical methods)Strong understanding of statistics and probabilitiesFluent in functional, object-oriented, and imperative programming languagesCompetent in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, and KubernetesFamiliarity withElixir, or more than one of the following: Elm, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, F#Python, or more than one of the following languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Java, C#Data structures and design/analysis of algorithmsExchange-traded financial assets, statistics, or financial engineeringPersonal traitsPossesses the ability to learn, adapt and growDemonstrates personal humility, respect for others, and trust in their teammatesCapable of independently driving projects to completion but prefers collaborating with teammatesExcellent problem-solving and debugging skills, but has better listening and communication skillsFor more information about DRW’s processing activities and our use of job applicants’ data, please view our Privacy Notice at California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at #J-18808-Ljbffr

About the company

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.The UP - Analytics - Middle Office team is looking for an

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