Software Engineer, Elixir

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.

The Pricing and Derived Data team is a domain engineering team in the Unified Platform organization, and is responsible for building and maintaining services used to generate prices and manage derived data for all traded products and products used for pricing purposes. We do so by building systems to catalog, ingest, store, and disseminate derived data, thereby ensuring high availability and coherence through the creation of robust services that support both intraday and end-of-day trade data. 

We are 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.

While previous experience working within trading and/or finance is beneficial, we are looking for talented and thoughtful software engineers, not specific industry experience.

Key responsibilities are building reliable systems for financial measures such as:

• Preferred Mark-to-Market settlements, Mark-to-model settlements, and forward valuation of FTRs
• Commodity price curves, equity forward curves and yield curves
• Implied, realized, and constant maturity volatility surfaces
• Unitised option sensitivities, Bond DV01s and BPVs
• Preferred prices for interest rate futures, options on futures, government bonds, swaps, equities and equity options and bond CTDs

Responsibilities:

• Work on a small team as a self-starter, with flexibility and adaptability as the team's priorities adjust to market conditions 
• Hands-on development, design, testing and maintenance of proprietary applications; both existing systems, and greenfield development on new capabilities 
• Provide on-call support as part of our team-wide rotation
• Development primarily in Elixir, with a small handful of systems in Python, Java and C++

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience with relational databases, streaming data stores, and S3-compatible storage
• Experience building distributed, concurrent, or parallel systems
• Proficient with distributed version control systems and asynchronous collaborative workflows
• Competent in CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Elixir/Erlang, or a similar functional programming language
• Fluent in functional, object-oriented, and imperative programming languages
• Experience of more than one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#
• Experience with at least of one of the following languages: C, C++, Rust
• Data structures and design/analysis of algorithms

Nice-to-have:

• Mathematical or statistical background, such as linear algebra, discrete mathematics, statistical regressions
• Exchange traded financial assets or financial engineering

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

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