About Us:
Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. 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. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.
Overview:
DV is looking for an experienced software developer to work with a small team responsible for development and daily operations of back-office systems that provide services to traders, risk management and accounting.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work alongside other software engineers, risk management, accounting and traders to provide real-time and batch processing of data.
- Generate daily reports for the firm and traders from overnight data.
- Design and use of database schemas to facilitate processing of data.
- Monitoring of daily jobs to ensure timely dissemination of vital information.
- Ensuring the flow of real-time trade data to provide accurate intraday position and trade data to risk management and traders.
Requirements:
Python at a senior professional level: typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning
Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines (start-of-day and end-of-day processing), including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery
Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience: schema design, migrations, query tuning, data integrity controls
Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines
Demonstrated quality discipline: automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through
Fluency with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) as a daily working environment
Practical experience applying AI: LLM APIs for automation or analysis, and thoughtful use of AI coding assistants with human review
Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineers: operations, accounting, settlements, and middle office staff
Ability to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make sound design decisions independently
Nice to Have:
Trade lifecycle domain knowledge for futures and options: trade capture, allocations, give-ups, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions and fees, margin, PnL
Experience with trading and position platforms (TPOS or similar), broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX/drop-copy ingestion
Reconciliation and data quality frameworks, and building audit trails
Experience moving legacy jobs and servers onto a cleaner architecture without breaking daily operations
DevOps and SRE foundation: Docker, infrastructure as code, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)
On-prem and bare metal infrastructure exposure alongside cloud
Agent patterns: tools, guardrails, human-in-the-loop review
Light front-end skills (internal tools and dashboards)
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
- Flexible Vacation policy
- Retirement plan with employer match
DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.
The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.
Skills Required
- Python at a senior professional level, including typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning
- Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines, including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, migrations, query tuning, and data integrity controls
- Workflow orchestration experience using Airflow or an equivalent tool, plus CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through
- Fluency with Atlassian tooling including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
- Practical experience applying AI, including LLM APIs and AI coding assistants with human review
- Clear written and verbal communication with operations, accounting, settlements, and middle-office staff
- Ability to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make independent design decisions
- Trade lifecycle knowledge for futures and options, including capture, allocations, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions, fees, margin, and PnL
- Experience with trading and position platforms such as TPOS, broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX or drop-copy ingestion
- Experience with reconciliation and data quality frameworks and audit trails
- Experience migrating legacy jobs and servers to cleaner architecture without disrupting daily operations
- DevOps and SRE experience with Docker, infrastructure as code, observability, Prometheus, Grafana, and structured logging
- Experience with on-premises, bare-metal, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with agent patterns, tools, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review
- Light front-end development experience for internal tools and dashboards
What We Do
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. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser. We invest in exceptional individuals and empower them to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact on our organization. Engaging a diverse group of talented people from different cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds helps provide us with a competitive advantage that drives our success.
