About Us:
Founded more than 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 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.
DV Commodities is a division within DV Group that specializes in trading commodities markets, including crude oil, refined products, natural gas, power, emissions, metals, softs, and agriculture. DV Commodities' risk management, world-class technology, and talented traders have enabled it to become one of the world’s largest liquidity providers and risk allocators in the energy and commodities spaces. DV Commodities currently has over 35 desks, with traders and staff located in London, New York, Chicago, Houston, and Dubai.
Responsibilities:
- Build and improve a variety of proprietary trading tools to support the trading desks across the business
- Collaborate with other developers, tech leaders, traders, and researchers to outline the technical needs for each trading application
- Work with technology and business stakeholders in iterative fashion to deliver platform functionality
- Architect greenfield solutions to address business needs, and work with equal confidence in established codebases: quickly building context in unfamiliar systems, extending them safely, and improving them as you go
- Use AI to accelerate development while taking full ownership of your code: apply engineering judgment across the entire lifecycle, from design and edge case handling through deployment and production support
Requirements:
- Expected to graduate with a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field by December 2026/January 2027
- Experience programming in either C++ and/or Python in Linux environments, ideally on quantitative or latency-sensitive problems
- Accelerate development with AI tools while fully owning your code from verification through edge case handling
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to work onsite at our London office 5 days a week
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Skills Required
- Expected graduation with a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field by Summer 2027
- Programming experience in C++ and/or Python in Linux environments
- Experience with quantitative or latency-sensitive programming problems
- Ability to use AI tools while owning code verification and edge-case handling
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to work onsite at the London office five days per week
DV Trading Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DV Trading and has not been reviewed or approved by DV Trading.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation structures are described as performance-linked with clear rewards for individual contributions. Feedback suggests a lucrative, competitive environment for traders, quants, and software engineers when performance aligns.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits are portrayed as solid and standard for a financial-services employer, including flexible vacation practices in some postings. Descriptions point to a package that covers multiple needs without excessive complexity.
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Retirement Support — Mentions of retirement matching indicate support for long-term financial planning. While specifics are not always provided, the inclusion of matching is viewed favorably.
DV Trading Insights
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.


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