Senior Software Engineer — Mid-Frequency Platform

Drweng; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance

401k with employer match

Flexible spending accounts

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Reference Data team in Chicago. You will work closely with analysts and traders to develop systems for high-frequency trading.

This role offers a salary range of $175,000 to $225,000 depending on experience. The position is hybrid, allowing for flexibility between home and office work.

DRW provides comprehensive employee benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform-level software development experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and a degree in Computer Science.
• Financial market and reference data familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve data and platform capabilities for trading workflows.
• Develop software for data acquisition and visualization.
• Design scalable pipelines and platforms using big data patterns.

Skills

Platform-level software development

Computer science fundamentals

Financial market familiarity

Big data technologies

SQL and data warehousing

Cloud-native deployments

Observability tools

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Tools

Spark

Delta Lake

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Reference Data team in Chicago. You will work closely with analysts and traders to develop systems for high-frequency trading.

This role offers a salary range of $175,000 to $225,000 depending on experience. The position is hybrid, allowing for flexibility between home and office work.

DRW provides comprehensive employee benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.