Software Engineer, Trading

DRW; Greater London; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer in London to design and develop research, trading, and post-trade software in C++ and Python. You will contribute to market data handling, feature computation, portfolio optimization, and execution management in a high-availability, low-latency environment.

The role requires 5+ years of professional C++ experience, deep concurrency knowledge, and a track record building mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional C++ experience.
• Built complex, mission-critical systems in modern C++ that are maintainable and safely refactorable.
• A working knowledge of type safety and type systems.
• Developed high availability distributed systems with tight latency constraints.
• An understanding of computer networking, the related technologies, and their tradeoffs.
• Practical knowledge of fundamental statistics and numerical recipes.
• Experience writing software for the trading domain.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong internal motivation and a continual desire to learn.
• Bonus points if you have collaborated with quantitative researchers.
• Bonus points if you have a working knowledge of high-level machine learning concepts and lifecycle.
• Bonus points if you have experience with functional programming and immutable design principles.
• Bonus points if you have worked in Cython and effectively integrated C++ and Python stacks

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software needed for research, trading, and post-trade analysis.
• Develop software such as market data handling, feature and signal computation, portfolio optimization, and execution management.
• Work in multiple languages, particularly C++ and Python.
• Test at the unit, functional, and integration levels.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders, and other software engineers.
• Provide on-call support as needed

Skills

C++ experience

Concurrency (C++/Python)

Type safety

Distributed systems

Networking basics

Statistics & numerics

Trading domain

Communication skills

Self-motivated learner

Research collaboration

Functional programming

Cython integration

Python

Job description

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional C++ experience
• Built complex, mission-critical systems in modern C++ that are maintainable and safely refactorable
• A deep understanding of concurrency concepts and their applications in C++ and Python
• A working knowledge of type safety and type systems
• Developed high availability distributed systems with tight latency constraints
• An understanding of computer networking, the related technologies, and their tradeoffs
• Practical knowledge of fundamental statistics and numerical recipes
• Experience writing software for the trading domain
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong internal motivation and a continual desire to learn
• Bonus points if you have collaborated with quantitative researchers
• Bonus points if you have a working knowledge of high-level machine learning concepts and lifecycle
• Bonus points if you have experience with functional programming and immutable design principles
• Bonus points if you have worked in Cython and effectively integrated C++ and Python stacks

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software needed for research, trading, and post-trade analysis
• Develop software such as market data handling, feature and signal computation, portfolio optimization, and execution management
• Work in multiple languages, particularly C++ and Python
• Test at the unit, functional, and integration levels
• Collaborate with researchers, traders, and other software engineers
• Provide on-call support as needed

Technologies

• Support
• Machine Learning
• Python

More

We are DRW, a diversified trading firm with over three 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, and we value high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus. Cumberland Systematic is our multi-asset trading team focused on mid- and high-frequency fully systematic strategies in the delta one space. We trade 24/7 globally, with our team located primarily in Chicago and London. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help design and develop the full stack needed to enable a global trading operation with high availability requirements.

last updated 36 week of 2026