Software Engineer, Python, GD1

P2P; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A diversified trading firm is seeking a Python Engineer to join its established trading team in London. This role involves improving trading software and collaborating directly with traders and researchers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python and experience in trading-related applications, with minimum 3 years of professional development expertise.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional development, demonstrating excellent understanding of Python.
• Strong preference for experience developing trading-related software.
• Must be able to teach others.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of our team of global Software Engineers.
• Improve existing code and develop new tools.
• Collaborate directly with traders and researchers.

Skills

Python

Trading-related software experience

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Job description

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.

We are seeking a Python Engineer to join an established multi-asset trading team with a global presence. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence the design and architecture of a growing system and ensure efficient development and deployment of revenue-generating solutions as part of an innovative front office team. Candidates should have strong initiative and have proven experience independently driving projects to completion. We work from high-level requirements and programmers are expected to gain an intimate understanding of the business and work directly with Traders and Quantitative Researchers on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of our team of global Software Engineers embedded in our Global Delta One business, working on its automated trading platform
• Improve existing code and develop new tools
• Collaborate directly with traders and researchers to identify solutions and/or create technical specifications and clearly articulate value add of new capabilities
• Manage a technology backlog from ideation to deployment
• Collaborate with traders, researchers, software engineers, and support engineers elsewhere within the organization

Qualifications

• Strong preference for experience developing trading-related software or coming from a complex technology-based organization
• Minimum of 3 years of professional development, demonstrating excellent, detailed understanding of Python
• Able to analyze business requests and translate to technical specifications and solutions
• Able to teach others
• Experience optimizing distributed systems
• Experience of data-intensive systems development
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Must be able to come into our London office 5 days per week

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