Back Office Developer

DV Trading LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options

Employer Paid Life/AD&D insurance

Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Retirement plan with employer match

Job summary

DV Trading LLC, headquartered in Chicago, seeks an experienced software developer to own back‑office systems for traders, risk management and accounting. You will work with a small team on real‑time and batch data processing, reporting and data architecture to support daily operations.

The role emphasizes Python at senior level, SQL expertise, Airflow orchestration, and strong communication with non‑engineers.

Qualifications

• Senior Python proficiency with typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling and performance tuning.
• Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with start‑of‑day and end‑of‑day processing, including retries and recovery.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience: schema design, migrations, query tuning and data integrity controls.
• Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Quality discipline: automated testing, code reviews, incident response, runbooks and post‑incident follow‑through.
• Fluency with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) as a daily working environment.
• Practical AI experience: LLM APIs for automation with human review.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non‑engineers.
• Ability to mentor junior and mid‑level developers and make sound design decisions independently.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers, risk management, accounting and traders for real‑time and batch data processing.
• Generate daily reports from overnight data for the firm and traders.
• Design and use database schemas to facilitate data processing.
• Monitor daily jobs to ensure timely dissemination of vital information.
• Ensure flow of real‑time trade data to support risk management and trading.

Skills

Senior Python

SQL/PostgreSQL

Airflow

CI/CD

Code testing

Mentoring

Communication

AI/LLM integration

Team collaboration

Education

Degree/quantitative field

Tools

Airflow

Docker

PostgreSQL

Grafana/Prometheus

SFTP/FIX ingestion

Job description

About Us

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview

DV is looking for an experienced software developer to work with a small team responsible for development and daily operations of back‑office systems that provide services to traders, risk management and accounting.

Job Responsibilities

• Work alongside other software engineers, risk management, accounting and traders to provide real‑time and batch processing of data.
• Generate daily reports for the firm and traders from overnight data.
• Design and use of database schemas to facilitate processing of data.
• Monitoring of daily jobs to ensure timely dissemination of vital information.
• Ensuring the flow of real‑time trade data to provide accurate intraday position and trade data to risk management and traders.

Requirements

• Python at a senior professional level: typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning
• Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines (start‑of‑day and end‑of‑day processing), including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience: schema design, migrations, query tuning, data integrity controls
• Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated quality discipline: automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post‑incident follow‑through
• Fluency with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) as a daily working environment
• Practical experience applying AI: LLM APIs for automation or analysis, and thoughtful use of AI coding assistants with human review
• Clear written and verbal communication with non‑engineers: operations, accounting, settlements, and middle office staff
• Ability to mentor junior and mid‑level developers and make sound design decisions independently

Nice to Have

• Trade lifecycle domain knowledge for futures and options: trade capture, allocations, give‑ups, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions and fees, margin, PnL
• Experience with trading and position platforms (TPOS or similar), broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX/drop‑copy ingestion
• Reconciliation and data quality frameworks, and building audit trails
• Experience moving legacy jobs and servers onto a cleaner architecture without breaking daily operations
• DevOps and SRE foundation: Docker, infrastructure as code, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)
• On‑prem and bare metal infrastructure exposure alongside cloud
• Agent patterns: tools, guardrails, human‑in‑the‑loop review
• Light front‑end skills (internal tools and dashboards)

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance
• Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Retirement plan with employer match

DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV's posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e‑mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good‑faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range

$150,000—$250,000 USD

The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good‑faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range

$150,000—$250,000 USD