Senior .NET Desktop Engineer - Trading Systems

DRW; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with employer match

Short/Long-term disability insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Health savings accounts

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our options trading desk in Chicago. You will design, build, and maintain data-intensive desktop applications and libraries using C# and .NET, working with quants, traders, and other developers to deliver robust systems.

Responsibilities include optimizing rendering, memory, and startup performance, ensuring uptime and traceability, and owning software through the full lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related discipline or relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with substantial experience building C#/.NET desktop applications.
• A thorough understanding of C# UI development and tooling.
• Should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment that continually embraces the latest technologies and techniques.
• Effective communication skills, ability to read and write high and mid-level architecture documentation
• Awareness of emerging technologies/standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain data-intensive desktop applications and reusable libraries using C# and modern .NET
• Develop and maintain systems to ensure application performance, integrity and reliability for maintaining maximal up-time, and logging and traceability to aid in the support of mission-critical production systems
• Profile and improve rendering, memory usage, concurrency, reactive data pipelines, and application startup performance
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, traders, and other developers
• Own software through its full lifecycle, including design, implementation, automated testing, instrumentation, deployment, staged rollout, and production support
• Leverage AI-assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate delivery, improve software quality, and evolve the team’s engineering practices.

Skills

C#/.NET desktop apps

UI development

Team collaboration

Effective communication

Architecture documentation

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Job description

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our options trading desk in Chicago. You will design, build, and maintain data-intensive desktop applications and libraries using C# and .NET, working with quants, traders, and other developers to deliver robust systems.

Responsibilities include optimizing rendering, memory, and startup performance, ensuring uptime and traceability, and owning software through the full lifecycle.