Quantitative Developer

Quantitative Developer – DV Trading LLC

$/yr - $/yr

Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. 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.

DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a burgeoning investment adviser.

DV Commodities is a rapidly growing division that specializes in trading crude oil, refined products, natural gas, and related energy markets across US, Europe, and Asia. Our proprietary risk management and trading methodologies along with a strong ability to adapt to changing conditions has allowed DV Commodities to grow into one of the largest financial participants within the global energy complex.

We are looking for an experienced software developer to work with a small team responsible for development of pricing, execution, and risk management of an event‑based trading and market data system. This is a front‑office role embedded within a commodities trading desk.

• Building cutting edge trading applications and enhancing trading GUIs
• Work with trading and quants to build out a pricing and executing algos
• Bring deep technical knowledge such as parallel programming, trading systems, networking, or performance analysis
• Work on cross‑functional teams across trading, quant, and development to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
• Building high‑performance components for simulation and live trading

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS, Engineering or other technical discipline
• Experience developing high‑performance, multi‑threaded applications using Java
• Demonstrated strong ability to program in a scientific computing environment (Python/Num Py/Pandas)
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, OOP, threading, multiprocessing, etc.
• Experience with SQL, No
  
  SQL or tick databases
• Experience working in a Unix environment and git
• Understanding of Java Swing is a plus
• Strong communication skills in verbal and written English
• Domain knowledge in futures & swaps is a plus

Associate

Full‑time

Information Technology and Engineering

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