Quantitative Research Engineer – Trading Systems

DRW; Greenwich; On-site; GBP 132,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group medical, pharmacy, dental and/or

Vision insurance

401k with discretionary employer match

Short/long-term disability

Life and AD&D insurance

Health savings accounts

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

DRW is a diversified trading firm seeking a Research Engineer to join a fast-moving, data-driven team in Greenwich. You will partner with researchers and traders to implement studies, simulate strategies, and develop scalable algorithms that perform in real markets.

You will embed with desks, learn their problem spaces, and build ergonomic engineering solutions while collaborating across teams to push prototypes to production and continuously improve the tech stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• A minimum of 2+ years’ experience using Python in a production setting.
• A strong understanding of quantitative finance and mathematics.
• Experience with linux-based, large-scale, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systems.
• A track record of working directly with end customers, scoping and delivering production systems in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills - you communicate clearly with stakeholders as well as other engineers, fostering a collaborative, supportive working environment.
• Experience with low-level systems programming languages (C/C++, Rust, Zig) is a plus.
• Experience with functional programming is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with researchers to implement research studies, simulate trading strategies, and develop algorithms to compete in financial markets.
• Embed with trading desks, work intimately with traders and portfolio managers, learn about their problem spaces, extract domain models, and build ergonomic, performant and extendable engineering solutions
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deployment
• Evaluate new technology and improve our technology stack on a continuous basis

Skills

Python

Quantitative finance

Low-latency systems

Customer collaboration

C/C++

Rust

Zig

Functional programming

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Linux

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm seeking a Research Engineer to join a fast-moving, data-driven team in Greenwich. You will partner with researchers and traders to implement studies, simulate strategies, and develop scalable algorithms that perform in real markets.

You will embed with desks, learn their problem spaces, and build ergonomic engineering solutions while collaborating across teams to push prototypes to production and continuously improve the tech stack.