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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate research and production infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies.

This is a hands-on engineering role with ownership across the full trading stack, including data ingestion, research tooling, back testing, production strategy deployment, execution integration, real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and post-trade analysis.

The ideal candidate has experience building end-to-end systematic trading systems in a hedge fund or proprietary trading environment. We are also highly interested in strong software engineers from technology companies or adjacent domains who have built complex, data-intensive systems with high standards for correctness, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain production infrastructure for systematic trading strategies
• Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines for research and production use
• Develop and maintain research, simulation, and back testing platforms
• Integrate trading strategies with execution systems and support live trading workflows
• Build tooling for real-time monitoring, diagnostics, performance attribution, and post-trade analysis
• Improve system design, scalability, observability, operational resilience, and maintainability

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience designing, building and operating systems with high complexity.
• Prior experience in equity stat-arb in a hedge fund, prop trading or systematic trading environment is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with the end-to-end systematic trading stack, including data, research, back testing, execution, monitoring, and post-trade analysis.
• Strong system design skills and sound engineering judgment.
• High standards for correctness, reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability

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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.

As a Trading Systems Engineer you’ll collaborate with trading, infrastructure, and software development teams, working closely with exchanges, traders, and developers to support ongoing improvements and keep our trading technology performing at its best.

As markets evolve toward 24×7 trading, we’re expanding coverage to ensure our systems run smoothly during high impact periods that extend beyond the traditional Monday–Friday schedule. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work a non-traditional 5-day shift, depending on what best fits your schedule, for example Tuesday to Saturday, including Saturday working. This flexible coverage model allows you to make a critical impact during peak trading hours while enjoying off days during quieter parts of the week. 

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Keeping trading systems healthy and available by proactively spotting and resolving potential issues
• Responding to trader and engineer requests with both urgency and understanding of the bigger operational context
• Participating in the onboarding of new desks and systems, thinking ahead about how they’ll fit into the broader ecosystem
• Learning the trading environment deeply so you can anticipate challenges and suggest improvements

 What we Value:

• Intent over Instruction: we’ll share what we’re trying to achieve; you’ll help determine the best way to get there
• Responsibility and trustworthiness: you follow through and communicate progress and results clearly
• Continuous learning and adaptability: when conditions change, you adjust while keeping the mission in mind
• Collaboration: you seek input when needed but are comfortable making informed decisions yourself

About You:

• You enjoy diagnosing problems and thinking creatively about solutions
• You’re excited about fast-moving environments and want to see your work make an impact quickly
• You learn by doing and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar technology

Qualifications & Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in trade support, site reliability engineering, or a related technical role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related STEM field
• Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting complex distributed systems
• Demonstrated knowledge of network communications, including use of multicast networking
• Exposure to containerized applications (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience with incident response and root cause analysis
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities under time pressure
• Excellent written and verbal stakeholder communication skills
• Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell) for basic automation tasks
• Competence in a broad range of technologies, spanning cloud platforms, containerization, monitoring/alerting systems, and distributed messaging platforms (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments
• Prior experience supporting electronic trading systems preferred.

Schedule: This position will require working on Saturdays and providing holiday coverage as needed by the department.

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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.

DRW is looking for an outstanding Software Engineer with an expertise in C++ to work in our Singapore office. In this role, you will be a part of our Core Infrastructure team which is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining DRW's low latency trading platform which is deployed global.  You will be tasked with working on various areas of the technical stack including order routing, market data, and risk systems.  

To qualify for this role, you:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working developing high-availability systems in C++ with very tight resource/latency constraints
• Have a background in multi-threaded programming and a strong understanding of hardware/software interaction
• Are comfortable working “under the hood” and you are quite skilled in performance tuning (applications, Linux, socket I/O, etc.) and troubleshooting
• Have experience working with C++ libraries like STL and Boost
• Are up to date on the C++23 standards and have opinions about them
• Have worked on challenging projects that involved things like building a custom compiler, writing a matching engine, or working with large amounts of data in real time
• Have strong English verbal and written communication skills

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in the trading industry or another ultra-low latency sensitive business that involves solving remarkably complex problems
• Experience working with Research teams and Quants
• Experience working within gaming or streaming
  
  

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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.

Our Global Trade Support team provides mission critical support for many of our proprietary and third-party trading systems as well as our proprietary middle and back-office systems.  We support a wide variety of trading teams globally who are participating in many different markets and asset classes.  The team provides technical support and engineering functions that include application support in testing and production environments, software deployment and configuration, and system monitoring.  We work with stakeholders and service providers both internally and externally to ensure a stable and efficient working environment for our trade teams.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Work as part of a global team to establish best-in-class production support, efficient software deployment, configuration processes, and proactive monitoring, with goals of anticipating and avoiding issues before they occur, minimizing downtime and quick recovery from incidents in a 24x7 trading environment.
• Ensure maximum trading system availability to avoid missing any key trading opportunities.
• Troubleshoot trading system production incidents, whether technical or non-technical in nature.  Work with internal teams responsible for proprietary and third-party trading systems and services as well as external teams such as exchanges, brokers and software or service vendors, in time-critical situations.
• Collaborate with traders, DBAs, development, back office, QA, infrastructure, technical support, business development and various management teams around the globe.
• Help end users and developers understand core trading and back-office systems to ensure efficient and correct use of available tools.
• Build documentation for common procedures, troubleshooting scenarios and system architecture.

What’s needed in this role:

• Superior troubleshooting skills and the ability to navigate issues which may not have a pre-defined runbook process.
• Strong communication skills.  The ability to communicate clearly and concisely with colleagues from many different backgrounds both written and verbally.  An understanding of appropriate levels of communication to ensure colleagues and stakeholders remain aware of current status and ongoing efforts during troubleshooting, investigations and projects.
• The ability to work autonomously while still leveraging the knowledge and skillset of colleagues.
• Prior experience supporting high performance trading systems, proprietary trading systems experience preferred.
• Script development experience a plus.
• Linux & Windows platform support experience in a large-scale production environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of network communications, including use of multicast networking.
• Must have some flexibility in work schedule to help ensure team coverage; rotating on-call coverage required.
• Curiosity and the desire to fully understand the technologies and systems you are working with.
• Strong organizational skills, including ability to effectively plan and prioritize.

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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.

Systematic Commodities Portfolio Manager

DRW is looking to bring on a Systematic Commodities PM to join our Singapore team. We are looking for an individual that has experience developing, testing, and executing algorithmic trading strategies across either a single or cross commodity approach. Ideal candidate will be highly systematic in approach and have mid frequency strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, testing and deploying systematic strategies across the Commodity complex
• Act as subject matter expert for Systematic Commodities in improving DRW’s offering of this product and approach
• Understand and manage risk across live strategies
• Conduct rigorous research, backtesting and performance attribution analysis
• Collaborating with technology teams to improve trading infrastructure, algorithms and execution
• Developing a small team to support your strategies to be as optimal and profitable as possible
• Identifying new markets in which to deploy strategies

Key skills:

• A bachelors, masters or PhD in mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science or related analytical field
• 5+ years of profitable trading experience in a Systematic Commodities environment
• Demonstrable experience in successfully building and managing trades
• Broad experience trading in Asia
• Advances quantitative and analytical skills
• Programming experience – Python, R, C++
• Self-starter with strong proactivity, willingness to drive and own projects and identifies opportunity for impact

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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.

As a Trading Operations Analyst, your work will involve reconciliation, balancing of accounts, profit-and-loss calculation and analysis, trade capture and a variety of other activities to support the firm’s trading activities in various asset classes.  In this role, you’ll have regular, direct interaction with a variety of teams, including finance, technology, operations, and the front office.  The ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of professionalism is paramount.

Responsibilities: 

• Perform detailed trade, position, and valuation reconciliation
• Provide assistance in trade capture for all products related to the firm’s activity
• Field reconciliation-related inquiries from a variety of teams within the firm
• Support trade management activities, such as processing expirations, exercises and assignments, corporate actions etc.
• Broad operational support of the firm’s trading desks located in Singapore
• Mastery of the firm’s proprietary trade capture, inventory management, and P&L reporting systems necessary to support the desk’s activity
• Act as process super-user for current functionality and provide critical support and advice regarding needed enhancements to technology, workflows, and processes
• Liaise with technical personnel to secure proper support/coverage for ongoing operations as well as procure enhancements for insufficient or new workflows
• Adopt, integrate, and promote new technology as it becomes available

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of experience in in detail-oriented role working at a working at a hedge fund, prop, or investment bank, ideally in a middle office or back-office function.
• Prior background in exchange-traded futures and futures options, equities and equities options, and FX spot/forwards and options
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, collaborative, and results-oriented environment, and thrive under time-sensitive and high-pressure situations
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or another quantitative field or material equivalent exposure
• Meticulous attention to details and accuracy in work
• Self-starter with strong proactivity, sets ambitious goals, willingness to drive and own projects, and proactively identifies opportunities for impact
• Strong MS Excel and SQL background is required
• Previous experience with Python, SQL, VBA, or PowerQuery are highly preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact and collaborate with global teams

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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.

DRW-NX is looking for a talented Network Infrastructure Architect to join our NSO team (Network Services and Operations). You will play a critical role in building, automating, and ensuring the reliability of some of the most cutting-edge low latency infrastructure in the world.

You will:

• Have the opportunity to work on the fastest network in the world.
• Experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Be part of a driven and dynamic global team focused on designing, improving, managing and monitoring a cutting-edge global network.

As a Network Infrastructure Architect for DRW, you will have two main mandates:

1. Supporting our global infrastructure with a focus on low latency including:

• • Providing operational support for our global wireless and wired high-performance network environments
  • Diagnose and solve network related issues and outages
  • Proactively identifying enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
  • Operating and provisioning monitoring and telemetry systems where applicable
  • Contributing to the documentation of network processes, systems and configurations
  • Participate in network change and code reviews

1. Work on team and department projects such as:

• • Automate our network provisioning and operation
  • New network, colocation or path onboarding
  • New telecom link delivery
  • New monitoring solutions
  • New automation projects
  • Liaise with our internal project team and external service providers for maintenance support
  • Automate repetitive tasks and day to day network processes using scripting and automation

What you’ll bring to the team:

• At least Three to Five years of experience in network automation
• Able to write code and implementation automation using existing framework such as ansible
• Will to learn wireless technologies and low latency networking
• Knowledge of switching, routing, WAN, LAN, and datacenter network architectures
• Good understanding of Linux (Boot sequence, services, processes, network and kernel)
• Ability to deploy and operate a monitoring framework such as Cacti, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus or Tick stack
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
• Ability to work independently and be part of a global team
• A high level of energy and a passion for creativity and innovation
• The flexibility to participate in the rotating weekend maintenance schedule
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

Bonus points for:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer science, Software Engineering or similar
• CCNP or JNCIP certification (R&S or similar)
• Experience working on automation (Python, Ansible/Puppet/Salt etc.)
• Experienced in Python, Go or similar coding language
• Experience with point-to-point wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
• Experience working on low latency or trading networks
• Hands on experience working with containers or pods (docker or Kubernetes or similar)
• Hands on experience with cloud services (AWS)
• Firewall experience (Checkpoint, FortiGate, Palo Alto etc.)

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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.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow while supporting our trading technology. You’ll work closely with trading, infrastructure, and software development teams to keep systems running smoothly. You’ll gain experience working with exchanges, traders, and developers to help resolve technical issues and assist with ongoing improvements.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 1–3 years of experience in trade support, systems administration, site reliability engineering, or a related technical role (internships or projects count!)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM field
• Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP) and ability to use common troubleshooting tools
• Exposure to containerized applications (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Ability to think through and troubleshoot technical problems under time pressure
• Clear communication skills, written and verbal
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for basic automation tasks
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments (basic command line skills)

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Keeping trading systems healthy and available by proactively spotting and resolving potential issues
• Responding to trader and engineer request with both urgency and understanding of the bigger operational context
• Participating in the onboarding of new desks and systems, thinking ahead about how they’ll fit into the broader ecosystem
• Learning the trading environment deeply so you can anticipate challenges and suggest improvements

What we Value:

• Intent over Instruction: we’ll share what we’re trying to achieve; you’ll help determine the best way to get there
• Responsibility and trustworthiness: you follow through and communicate progress and results clearly
• Continuous learning and adaptability: when conditions change, you adjust while keeping the mission in mind
• Collaboration: you seek input when needed but are comfortable making informed decisions yourself

About You:

• You enjoy diagnosing problems and thinking creatively about solutions
• You’re excited about fast-moving environments and want to see your work make an impact quickly
• You learn by doing and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar technology

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California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.

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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.

We are seeking a Network Security Engineer to join the network security team to ensure that our infrastructure and networks are properly protected. They will design, coordinate and implement security controls, audit configurations, and design networks in a hybrid compute environment. A successful candidate will have an attention to detail, the ability to understand what impacts their changes have on the network and relevant associated services.   

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with cross-functional security, technology, and trading teams to design and deploy innovative solutions that enhance both system integrity and trading performance.
• Actively contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of mission-critical trading infrastructure that drives resilient and scalable market operations.
• Implement robust strategies to reduce network risks by leveraging micro-segmentation, port-based security, and other innovative methods.
• Evaluate, diagnose, and implement effective network security solutions such as firewalls, network detect and response, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and VPN concentrators to improve our network security and ensure reliable remote access.
• Leverage automation, AI, and other emerging and innovative technologies to continuously enhance our ability to detect and respond to security events.
• Perform in-depth analysis of network packet captures to investigate security incidents and identify areas for improvement.
• Continuously seek opportunities to automate tasks and streamline security operations for improved efficiency and effectiveness.

  What we’re looking for:

• You are passionate about solving complex problems that enable our company to securely connect from anywhere globally to facilitate new business opportunities.
• You are a network security engineer who thrives on designing, implementing, and supporting cutting-edge security systems that keep our network safe from emerging threats.
• You can get your hands dirty with hands-on experience in firewalls, client VPNs, SASE, NDR, and IDS solutions.
• You enjoy scripting and coding to automate processes and reduce repetitive work
• You have a solid understanding of TCP, UDP, IP, the OSI Model, and Layer 1-4 & 7 principles and security protocols.
• You are a dedicated professional who isn’t afraid of stepping up for on-call duties—even if it means working nights or weekends
• You are someone that continuously seeking innovative improvements to drive high-quality, state-of-the-art, and effective security solutions.
• You are an effective communicator, able to translate complex technical insights into clear, actionable strategies that resonate with cross-functional teams.

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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 Options, 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.

We are looking for an excellent Quantitative Developer to design, develop new and improve existing pricing and trade execution systems for our Asia Equity Options business. As a member of the desk, you will be integral in the interaction between research and trading teams. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge low latency technologies and will be surrounded by senior technologists providing you with the best possible environment to succeed.

How you will make an impact:

• Building and improving high-availability, production systems in C++ and Python with resource and latency constraints
• Analyzing and discussing requirements from stakeholders
• Facilitating discussions on code implementation, testing, software architecture best practices
• Driving projects and leading new initiatives
• Actively engaging with others on the development team to resolve challenging design and coding issues
• Evaluating appropriate new technologies, tools, frameworks and software components for integration

What you bring to the team:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in quantitative software development, preferably at a trading firm or systematic fund
• Strong production experience in Python and C++, including Boost, STL and data analysis workflows (pandas, polars, or similar)
• Strong experience working on highly distributed systems
• A background in multi-threaded programming and a strong understanding of hardware/software interaction
• Solid understanding of ML concepts as applied to systematic strategies, from research through production
• Prior experience working on options or derivative products is a plus
• Dedicated team player and a passionate problem solver with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact and collaborate across research and engineering teams
• Meticulous attention to details and accuracy in work
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, collaborative, and results-oriented environment, and thrive under time-sensitive and high-pressure situations

For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.

California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.

#LI-PR1

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.

We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to work on alpha generation, model development, and the full research pipeline for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies. The position will collaborate closely with the Portfolio Manager and other team members, contributing across all stages — from data processing and feature engineering to backtesting and live deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement predictive signals and features across global equities.
• Work with large, diverse datasets; develop robust feature engineering and point in time (PIT) data cleaning pipelines.
• Collaborate with team members to implement research infrastructure, backtesting frameworks, and analytical tools.
• Build frameworks and tools for performance attribution and ongoing live strategy monitoring.

Requirements

• 2–8 years of experience in quant equities, with a primary focus on alpha research.
• Familiarity with both standard and alternative datasets used in equity stat arb strategies, including data cleansing, ticker mapping, point-in-time (PIT) handling, and other dataset idiosyncrasies.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with SQL and distributed data environments.
• Advanced degree (PhD/MSc) in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related quantitative discipline.

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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.

As a Senior Data Engineer on our Data Experience team, you will play an integral role in bringing vendor datasets into our data platform, governing our centralized data pipelines, consolidating data delivery infrastructure across disparate systems, and working alongside individual Traders, Quantitative Researchers, and Back-Office personnel to best utilize the firm’s data and platform tools.

Technical requirements summary:

• Have extensive experience designing and building data pipelines
• Have experience working within modern batch and streaming data ecosystems
• An expert in SQL and Java or Python
• Extensive knowledge of data modeling techniques
• Able to own the delivery of data products, working with analysts and stakeholders to understand requirements and implement solutions
• Able to contribute to project management and project reporting
• Have experience driving nontrivial data migrations across platforms
• Able to establish, follow, and enforce data modeling standards across a large ecosystem.

What you will do in this role:

• Model, build, and manage data products built atop DRW’s Unified Data Platform.
• Work closely with Data Strategists to determine appropriate data sources and implement processes that onboard and manage new datasets for trading, research, and back-office purposes.
• Design data governance processes that enable discovery, cost-sharing, usage tracking, access controls, and quality control of datasets to address the needs of DRW trading teams and strategies.
• Continually monitor data ingestion pipelines and data quality to ensure stability, reliability, and quality of the data. Design monitoring and quality control software and processes.
• Own the technical aspects of vendor ingestion pipelines, coordinating with vendor relationship managers on upcoming changes, performing routine data operations without breaking internal users, and contributing to the team’s on-call rotation to respond to unanticipated changes.
• Rapidly respond to user requests, identifying platform gaps, and self-service opportunities that make the user experience more efficient.

What you will need in this role:

• 7+ years of experience working with modern data technologies and building data-first products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative, agile, and fast-paced environment, prioritizing multiple tasks and projects, and efficiently handle the demands of a trading environment.
• Proven ability to deliver rapid results within processes that span multiple stakeholders.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills.
• Extensive familiarity with SQL and Java or Python, with a proven ability to develop and deliver maintainable data transformations for production data pipelines.
• Experience leveraging data modeling techniques and ability to articulate the trade-offs of different approaches.
• Experience with one or more data processing technologies (e.g. Flink, Spark, Polars, Dask, etc.).
• Experience with multiple data storage technologies (e.g. S3, RDBMS, NoSQL, Delta/Iceberg, Cassandra, Clickhouse, Kafka, etc.) and knowledge of their associated trade-offs.
• Experience with multiple data formats and serialization systems (e.g. Arrow, Parquet, Protobuf/gRPC, Avro, Thrift, JSON, etc.).
• Experience managing data pipeline orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.), delving deeply into low-level details.
• Proven experience in managing the operational aspects of large data pipelines such as backfilling datasets, rerunning batch jobs, monitoring event throughput, and handling dead-letter queues.
• Prior experience triaging data quality control processes, correcting data gaps and inaccuracies.

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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.

The Machine Learning Researcher will have a deep understanding of the principles behind modern ML algorithms — including recent advances such as transformer-based architectures and other state-of-the-art frameworks — and the ability to turn that knowledge into high-impact, production-ready solutions.

The role involves applying advanced ML techniques to a wide range of forecasting challenges, building scalable ML pipelines, and deploying them in production, while working with high-dimensional, noisy, structured and unstructured datasets. Experience applying ML models in financial markets is desirable, but exceptional candidates with a strong ML background from tech, startups, or academia will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and deploy robust ML models.
• Build and maintain scalable, production-level ML pipelines.
• Extract signals from large, noisy, real-world datasets.

Qualifications

• PhD (or exceptional MSc) in ML, Computer Science, or related field.
• Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of core ML algorithms, and comfortable experimenting with model architectures, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning to produce high-performance and resilient models.
• Proven experience taking ML models from research to live production.

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DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 25 years, so has DRW – maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital. With over 1,000 employees around the world, we work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.

We are seeking a Proprietary Risk Trader who is focused on ETFs, Single Stocks or Futures to join one of our Global Trading teams.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Build, execute, and risk manage discretionary & semi-systematic strategies end-to-end across ETFs and index futures.
• Run ETF market-making and index arbitrage (cash–futures/TRS basis, baskets), and contribute to central risk book decisions to internalize flow and optimize inventory/hedging.
• Analyse flows & themes (macro, microstructure, corporate actions) to generate tradeable hypotheses and P&L.
• Partner with developers/quants to improve models, data pipelines, and execution tooling (Python-first culture).
• Drive execution quality: route selection, algo parameters, participation, and post-trade attribution.
• Contribute to desk risk positioning and runbooks; uphold controls (price bands, notional caps, borrow/recall awareness.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a trader in ETFs or index futures (prop/MM/sell-side delta-one).
• Asia markets experience (HK/SG/JP/KR/TW at minimum). Onshore China (QFI/Stock Connect, futures) is a strong plus.
• Hands-on exposure to ETF MM, index arbitrage, and/or central risk book workflows.
• Strong Python (pandas/numpy; quick prototyping/backtests; comfort with data hygiene & attribution).
• Ability to translate macro/news into positioning; understanding of microstructure (auctions, halts/LULD, tick/lot, fee tiers) and SBL/borrow dynamics.
• Profitable track record in equities/futures (high-level P&L drivers and risk used to achieve it).
• Nice to have
• Experience with internalization/crossing frameworks; broker algo tuning (VWAP/TWAP/POV).
• Corporate-actions & index events playbooks; AP/issuer interactions for Cr/Rd.
• Mandarin/Cantonese language skills (for brokers/issuers/reg materials) are a plus.

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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.

As a Quantitative Developer, you will implement software solutions that use advanced statistical methods and have a direct impact on automated trading strategies across multiple asset classes. You will work closely with our Quantitative Researchers on idea generation and development and will be able to solve challenging technological problems. You will have access to cutting-edge technology, hardware and grid computing and will be given immediate responsibility.

How you will make an impact...

• Design, develop, test and deploy proprietary software solutions for complex algorithmic trading systems
• Optimize large scale data processing and modelling
• Collaborate with researchers to translate research-based trading strategies into production software
• Build software to manage risk and execution of our trading system
• Automate human-decision based trading strategies and implement algorithmic trades from trading ideas
• Manage day-to-day technology requirements of our proprietary trading systems and evaluate new technologies to improve on the current stack

You will be at home if you have...

• A degree in a technical discipline such as mathematics, physics, engineering or computer science with a focus on statistics, optimization and signal processing
• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in the financial markets
• Excellent software development skills in Python
• Strong problem-solving and statistics skills
• Skills in asynchronous and multi-threaded software; handling, maintaining and processing large data sets; and network programming
• A strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• The proactive ability to take the lead on assignments and deliver practical results in a timely manner 

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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.

The Software Development Engineer in Test / Python Developer provides mission-critical support for our core proprietary trading systems. You will develop automated tests for trading platforms used globally by trading and research teams, and contribute to Python production applications such as trade data processing and reconciliation tools. We are seeking a candidate with experience in fast-paced development environments, strong testing skills, and solid Python development experience.

Core Duties:

• Test automation & quality assurance
  • Build a strong understanding of trading system functionality (market pricing, trading operations, trade data access, etc.) and use the Python-based test framework to develop automated test suites
  • Design and implement tests for throughput, functionality, data processing, and latency for Trading Components (Order Adapters, Market Data Publishers, Risk Systems, Exchange Connections, and others)
  • Test trading system releases and support release management
  • Support and maintain test environments
  • Integrate tests into a continuous integration system and provide fast feedback on changes that affect development
  • Perform manual testing when needed (e.g., certification, integration testing)
  • Troubleshoot issues and bugs discovered in testing and help determine root cause
  • Investigate production issues and support root cause analysis
• Python production applications
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance Python production applications such as trade data processing and reconciliation tools
  • Participate in the full software lifecycle for these applications, including design, implementation, deployment, and support

 Requirements:

• 2+ years of Python programming experience
• 2+ years of automation testing experience
• Experience with testing frameworks for unit and integration testing (PyTest)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear written and verbal communication
• Solid understanding of software development and testing practices
• Ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment

Preferred:

• Experience with trading systems
• Experience developing or maintaining production-facing Python applications
• Familiarity with FIX protocol and other financial messaging protocols

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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.

Our Equity Options team is looking for a Trading Systems Engineer (TSE) to provide high performance, mission critical support for our proprietary trading systems. The role is to maintain a healthy trading environment and provide on-the-floor technical support. The TSE will also work on longer-term engineering projects collaborating closely with traders, researchers and developers to ensure maximum trading profitability by contributing to scalable, efficient, performant, clean systems and well-defined workflows. The TSE will coordinate with operations, business liaisons and infrastructure teams to communicate with exchanges, brokers and other external parties to ensure a stable and efficient environment for our option trading strategies.

What you’ll be working on:

• Work as part of a team to establish best-in-class production support, efficient software deployment, configuration processes and proactive monitoring, with the goal of anticipating and avoiding issues before they occur, minimizing downtime and recovering quickly from any incidents
• Understand and potentially develop proprietary process automation and monitoring tools and leverage third-party technologies as appropriate
• Troubleshoot trading system production incidents resulting from internal (proprietary software/systems) or external factors (markets, data feeds, telecommunication lines) in time-critical situations.
• Understanding Option Trading in the APAC region to best enable trading
• Coordinate efforts with European and US Option trading teams to share best practices and ensure continuity and consistency of support in a 24x7 environment
• Understand exchange data center layout and hardware infrastructure to optimise our setup and configuration

Qualifications & Skills:

• 1-3 years working trade support, site reliability engineering or related fields
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field, ideally computer engineering related
• Basic networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and common network troubleshooting tools
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot technical issues under pressure
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal for audiences of varying backgrounds
• Thrives in high-pressure situations while working alongside traders, developers and other engineering teams
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
• Knowledge of database usage (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres)
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation tasks
• Experience with Distributed Systems
• Strong understanding of modern DevOps and CICD
• Experience with using and/or building Restful web services
• Experience with web development technologies (e.g., Javascript React.js, Vue and CSS3)

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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.

We are seeking an experienced Portfolio Manager to help expand our Equity Capital Markets (ECM) investment strategy across the APAC region. This is a hands-on, revenue-generating role that combines risk-taking responsibilities as part of a regional ECM investment mandate with business and relationship development responsibilities.
The position carries explicit risk-taking responsibilities within DRW Global Investments (DRWGI) ECM investment strategy, including aftermarket opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and strengthening key market and stakeholder relationships, leading live ECM deal interactions, and driving the build-out of our APAC ECM investment capability in close coordination with the global ECM investment team.

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