DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
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. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
UP (Unified Platform) consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution, accelerating time to market. Optimizing decision-making and research, our platform simplifies implementing new ideas, enhancing our competitive edge.
UP - PI (Platform Infrastructure) creates and operates tooling to make building, running, and changing UP software more scalable, failure-proof, and intelligible. They bridge infrastructure and running services and balance developer autonomy with guard-rails. The team ensures that infrastructure underlying UP services is robust, resilient, and agile to adapt to evolving demands. UP - PI spearheads adoption of new tools and practices across the UP platform.
Expectations:
- Build and operate shared services for dozens of software teams
- Consolidate diverse and redundant approaches to common problems
- Exercise stewardship over critical shared services.
- Enable other teams to focus on business domains.
- Support and teach users of the development platform you build
- Influence outcomes through dozens of software teams
- Embrace variety and challenge
Desirable Experience:
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, Ruby
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes
- Exposure to ETL systems at scale (e.g. Apache Airflow, Argo Workflows)
- Exposure to streaming data platforms (e.g. Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Comfort deploying software to the cloud and on-premises
- Record of accomplishment of empowering other engineers and teams
- Exposure to modern observability practices
- Experience troubleshooting important systems with limited time and information
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What We Do
A diversified trading firm that utilizes our own capital and trades at our own risk. We bring sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to solve complex problems in markets around the world and across many asset classes. We are motivated to compete at the highest level and commit to operate with respect, curiosity and an open mind.
Why Work With Us
The DRW approach is simple: tenure, experience and titles don’t matter as much as ideas, execution and results. We believe in creating opportunity to take on more complex problems, more interesting projects and more specialized skills. It’s a results-driven environment where friendships grow and respect is the norm.
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