Software Engineer, Commodities Engineering

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. 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, and have expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

A rapidly expanding global trading desk is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team in Chicago. In this role, you will design, develop, and test proprietary trading software, leveraging existing tools and infrastructure to focus on business value.

• Work directly with traders, developers, and researchers to develop infrastructure, tools, visualizations, and trading strategies.
• Support the trading desk’s research and analysis workflows, utilizing and extending DRW’s in‑house data analysis infrastructure.

• An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software’s users.
• Willingness to learn more than just engineering.
• Strong communication skills and a team‑oriented mentality—successful engineers can understand how traders think and communicate effectively with them.
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business‑critical applications.
• Comfort working within vague or changing guidelines and the ability to independently determine priorities.

• Java (at least 5 years of full‑stack experience writing Java servers running on Linux)
  OR Python (3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining Python libraries and applications).
• Solid foundation in engineering fundamentals.

• Trading industry experience (preferred but not required).
• Strong quantitative or research background.
• Experience with Type Script and React.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud provider, especially from the perspective of trading firms.
• Options experience.