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 join our Unified Platform (UP) team. UP 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. The UP-Finance team is responsible for building and operating the systems that underpin DRW's financial accounting, regulatory reporting, reconciliation, and cost basis infrastructure. This team is looking for application software developers who can help with our broad set of challenges.

What You'll Work On:

• Our systems span the full lifecycle from PnL calculation, general ledger classification, financial reporting and regulatory capital reporting. You'll work across a range of high-impact initiatives including:
  • Delivering on major regulatory, ERP, and financial reporting initiatives
  • Migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes and modernizing our deployment practices
  • Modernizing observability and monitoring across the finance platform
• You'll spend time upfront with accountants, financial analysts, and operations teams to deeply understand business problems, help stakeholders articulate requirements and test assumptions, then turn that into an architecture and a plan. You'll drive your project forward day-to-day, breaking big business requirements into shippable increments and delivering iteratively. This is not a role where you'll be handed detailed specs.
• You'll also spend time reviewing code, providing feedback on design documents, unblocking teammates, and participating in a support rotation.

You'll be right at home if:

• You break large, ambiguous problems into small increments and ship continuously.
• You care deeply about the business domain you work in. You want to understand why the numbers matter, not just how to move them through a pipeline.
• You're comfortable leading a project end-to-end: discovery, architecture, stories, implementation, deployment and support.
• You have strong opinions, loosely held. You challenge ideas constructively and welcome the same in return.
• You focus on reducing operational burden. You'd rather automate a problem away than manage it forever.
• You communicate complex technical topics clearly to both engineers and business partners, and you drive productive debates to resolution.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strength in at least one of Clojure or Python. We have a large Clojure codebase and a growing Python footprint across data pipelines. Experience with Ruby and PL/SQL is also valuable.
• Experience in the finance or accounting domain. You've worked with concepts like PnL, reconciliation, general ledger, regulatory reporting, or cost basis. You don't need to be a CPA, but you should be someone who leans into understanding the business.
• Strong system design skills. You can reason about architectural tradeoffs, distributed systems, and design for reliability and operability
• Solid understanding of relational databases: transactionality, indexing, performance tuning, and data modeling
• Experience building and operating production systems with modern infrastructure (containers, CI/CD pipelines, orchestration)
• A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering culture and the ambition to grow your technical leadership further

Even better if you bring:

• Deep Python expertise — data pipelines, scheduling, tooling. This is an opportunity to have outsized impact.
• Experience with Clojure or other Lisp-family languages
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling — structured logging, metrics, alerting, anomaly detection
• Familiarity with Oracle, Kafka, or Airflow
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code
• Background in reducing operational toil through automation and better system design

The annual base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $225,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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.

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Senior Software Engineer Job Description

Senior Software Engineer will develop information systems by studying operations; designing, developing and installing software solutions; support and develop software team. The Senior Software Engineer will lead a team of developers responsible for building new and support existing websites.

Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills. Creative engineering balanced with high quality and a customer focus. Must be able to work across multiple facets of the project and juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. Strong analytic capability and the ability to create innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is looking to grow their career in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

• First and foremost, developing software our users need
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
• Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Be a persistent, creative problem ­solver
• Remain cool and effective in a crisis
• Stay on the leading edge of development practices
• Passionate about great technologies, especially open source
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in in appropriate field of study
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Fluent with functional, imperative and object-­oriented languages; knowledge of Java, Scala, or Clojure, or JavaScript would be especially useful
• Either strong OOP or Functional Programing and modeling skills
• 4+ years professional experience in professional web development
• Fluent in JavaScript and PHP
• Experience coding, testing and documenting Drupal themes – including all front end functionality and templates – and modules – using contributed modules and developing custom modules as needed
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
• Experience developing software utilizing workflow or ESB software
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

• Know the JVM and the ecosystem of supporting tools inside and out
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies

Senior Software Engineer top skills & proficiencies:

• Analysis
• Software Design
• Software Documentation
• Software Testing
• Teamwork
• Programming Skills
• Software Development Fundamentals and Process
• Software Requirements
• Software Architecture
• Self-Directed
• Multitask
• Communication Skills
• Results Oriented
• High Energy
• Self-Motivated
• Experience Working in an Agile Environment

Senior Software Engineer Job Description

Senior Software Engineer will develop information systems by studying operations; designing, developing and installing software solutions; support and develop software team. The Senior Software Engineer will lead a team of developers responsible for building new and support existing websites.

Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills. Creative engineering balanced with high quality and a customer focus. Must be able to work across multiple facets of the project and juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time. Strong analytic capability and the ability to create innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is looking to grow their career in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

• First and foremost, developing software our users need
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
• Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Be a persistent, creative problem ­solver
• Remain cool and effective in a crisis
• Stay on the leading edge of development practices
• Passionate about great technologies, especially open source
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in in appropriate field of study
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Fluent with functional, imperative and object-­oriented languages; knowledge of Java, Scala, or Clojure, or JavaScript would be especially useful
• Either strong OOP or Functional Programing and modeling skills
• 4+ years professional experience in professional web development
• Fluent in JavaScript and PHP
• Experience coding, testing and documenting Drupal themes – including all front end functionality and templates – and modules – using contributed modules and developing custom modules as needed
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
• Experience developing software utilizing workflow or ESB software
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

• Know the JVM and the ecosystem of supporting tools inside and out
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies

Senior Software Engineer top skills & proficiencies:

• Analysis
• Software Design
• Software Documentation
• Software Testing
• Teamwork
• Programming Skills
• Software Development Fundamentals and Process
• Software Requirements
• Software Architecture
• Self-Directed
• Multitask
• Communication Skills
• Results Oriented
• High Energy
• Self-Motivated
• Experience Working in an Agile Environment

About Droit:
At Droit, we build mission-critical, breakthrough products to advance global regulatory compliance and real-time controls. We are pioneers in computational law and automating intelligent decision making. We see the complexity of rules and regulations as an opportunity. With our award-winning, patented platform, we help our clients systematically identify the right action and improve operational efficiencies in an ever-changing regulatory environment. 

We value intellectually curious, creative people who enjoy solving challenging, interesting problems and building breakthrough products. Our culture and organizational model encourage accountability, collaboration and personal development.  

About this role: 
As Droit’s product offering grows, we’re looking for a talented Fullstack Product Engineer to design, build and own client-facing web applications. You will report to the VP of Engineering and collaborate closely with other members of the Engineering and Product teams. This role is essential to delivering user-centric digital experiences to our team members and clients. If you are excited by the idea of building products that are elegant, functional and loved by their users, this might be the role for you. 

Your primary responsibility will be to develop high-performance web applications to support real-time regulatory services at sophisticated financial firms. You will play a pivotal role in optimizing our tech stack, pioneering the development of efficient and scalable systems, and ultimately deploying our products successfully to clients.

What you’ll do in this role: 

• Understand clients' goals and objectives and develop strategies to help them achieve those goals, including gathering feedback to inform further product development.
• Work end-to-end across the entire development lifecycle from idea to build to deployment to measuring the impact of the feature. This involves breaking down large problems into small, iterative, and shippable components.
• Work closely with Product and User Experience to build roadmaps and deliver functionality in targeted, rapid iterations.
• Drive technical architecture and solution design.
• Build an in-depth understanding of Droit’s products and services and provide technical expertise and BAU production support to customers.
• Plan and manage the delivery of on-prem and cloud deployed products, upgrades, and enhancements to clients in conjunction with our Platform team.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture.
  
  

What we are looking for:  

• Experience and interest in building web applications using User-Centered Design principles.
• Strong understanding of system design, including the ability to architect scalable and efficient front-to-back solutions.
• The capacity to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them, explain the trade-offs, and how they align/impact business objectives.
• Ability to take full ownership of projects that span months, leading from concept through to delivery.
• A high degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems.
• Experience and the desire to work directly with clients/customers to shape product and technical decisions. 
• A collaborative mind-set that enjoys working with others and knowledge sharing to achieve the best results.
• An eagerness to give and receive feedback in an open team atmosphere to better the overall result.
  
  

Desired Technical Experience:  

• Backend: strong proficiency in Java, Node.js/TypeScript.
• Frontend: expertise in modern frameworks, primarily React and TypeScript.
• Infrastructure: experience with modern cloud systems like AWS or Azure.
• Direct experience using relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
• Practical experience in a functional language (e.g. Clojure, Haskell) is a plus.
  
  

What we offer:   

• Competitive compensation, including retirement benefits.
• Holistic benefits for you and your family to support your physical and mental health.  
• A commitment to growth through continuous feedback and experiences.  
• The opportunity to work in close-knit, global teams. 
• Flexibility for where you work and purpose for when we come together in person.  
  
  

NYC Salary information:
We estimate that the base salary for this NYC-based role will be $175,000 - 200,000, inclusion in Droit's discretionary bonus program, and benefits. Individual salaries are determined by factors such as experience, job-related skills, and relevant education.

A little more about Droit:
We believe in maintaining a diverse, innovative and inclusive workforce. Our people join us from a variety of backgrounds, and these diverse experiences help fuel our growth and ensure that our clients receive best-in-class products.  

As we scale, we continue to commit to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or Veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.  

For more details on the company, please visit our website. 

About Droit:
At Droit, we build mission-critical, breakthrough products to advance global regulatory compliance and real-time controls. We are pioneers in computational law and automating intelligent decision making. We see the complexity of rules and regulations as an opportunity. With our award-winning, patented platform, we help our clients systematically identify the right action and improve operational efficiencies in an ever-changing regulatory environment. 

We value intellectually curious, creative people who enjoy solving challenging, interesting problems and building breakthrough products. Our culture and organizational model encourage accountability, collaboration and personal development.  

About this role: 
As Droit’s product offering grows, we’re looking for a talented Fullstack Product Engineer to design, build and own client-facing web applications. You will report to the VP of Engineering and collaborate closely with other members of the Engineering and Product teams. This role is essential to delivering user-centric digital experiences to our team members and clients. If you are excited by the idea of building products that are elegant, functional and loved by their users, this might be the role for you. 

Your primary responsibility will be to develop high-performance web applications to support real-time regulatory services at sophisticated financial firms. You will play a pivotal role in optimizing our tech stack, pioneering the development of efficient and scalable systems, and ultimately deploying our products successfully to clients.

What you’ll do in this role: 

• Understand clients' goals and objectives and develop strategies to help them achieve those goals, including gathering feedback to inform further product development.
• Work end-to-end across the entire development lifecycle from idea to build to deployment to measuring the impact of the feature. This involves breaking down large problems into small, iterative, and shippable components.
• Work closely with Product and User Experience to build roadmaps and deliver functionality in targeted, rapid iterations.
• Drive technical architecture and solution design.
• Build an in-depth understanding of Droit’s products and services and provide technical expertise and BAU production support to customers.
• Plan and manage the delivery of on-prem and cloud deployed products, upgrades, and enhancements to clients in conjunction with our Platform team.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture.
  
  

What we are looking for:  

• Experience and interest in building web applications using User-Centered Design principles.
• Strong understanding of system design, including the ability to architect scalable and efficient front-to-back solutions.
• The capacity to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them, explain the trade-offs, and how they align/impact business objectives.
• Ability to take full ownership of projects that span months, leading from concept through to delivery.
• A high degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems.
• Experience and the desire to work directly with clients/customers to shape product and technical decisions. 
• A collaborative mind-set that enjoys working with others and knowledge sharing to achieve the best results.
• An eagerness to give and receive feedback in an open team atmosphere to better the overall result.
  
  

Desired Technical Experience:  

• Backend: strong proficiency in Java, Node.js/TypeScript.
• Frontend: expertise in modern frameworks, primarily React and TypeScript.
• Infrastructure: experience with modern cloud systems like AWS or Azure.
• Direct experience using relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
• Practical experience in a functional language (e.g. Clojure, Haskell) is a plus.
  
  

What we offer:   

• Competitive compensation, including retirement benefits.
• Holistic benefits for you and your family to support your physical and mental health.  
• A commitment to growth through continuous feedback and experiences.  
• The opportunity to work in close-knit, global teams. 
• Flexibility for where you work and purpose for when we come together in person.  
  
  

A little more about Droit:
We believe in maintaining a diverse, innovative and inclusive workforce. Our people join us from a variety of backgrounds, and these diverse experiences help fuel our growth and ensure that our clients receive best-in-class products.  

As we scale, we continue to commit to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or Veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.  

For more details on the company, please visit our website.