Real-Time Back Office Engineer - Python, SQL, Airflow

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

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.