Risk Developer

As a Risk Developer at DV Trading, you will build and maintain the in-house risk engine that powers real-time calculation and monitoring of PnL, VaR, greeks, risk slides, and other key risk metrics. You join a team of senior risk developers, quantitative analysts, and market risk analysts to turn financial models into reliable, production-ready applications that run smoothly under live trading conditions. DV Trading is an independent proprietary trading firm founded in 2016 that uses its own capital and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain real-time risk systems used daily by risk, traders, and executives, including 24/5 live PnL tracking, VaR and other exposure calculations, web-based risk dashboards, interactive analytical tools, and alerting and monitoring systems
• Own deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure for risk applications: containerization, pipeline automation, environment management, observability, and incident response
• Improve system reliability, performance, and availability, with a focus on low latency and stability during market hours
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and debugging
• Develop and enhance applications that integrate LLM APIs for automation, analysis, and workflow improvements
• Build responsive front-end interfaces for visualizing and interacting with risk metrics
• Collaborate with the risk team to understand requirements and implement risk models
• Write clean, well-documented, and tested code; participate in code reviews and design discussions

What you bring

• 4+ years of professional experience as a full-stack developer, preferably in the financial industry or proprietary trading
• Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, backend logic, and model integration
• Solid DevOps experience: Docker, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins, Linux administration, and monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows, and a practical understanding of how to apply them effectively and safely
• Experience integrating LLM APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic into applications, including prompt design, tool or function calling, and evaluation
• Experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework: React, Angular, or Vue
• Proficiency in SQL and a solid understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and/or NoSQL stores such as Redis
• Understanding of data structures, APIs, and real-time data processing
• Familiarity with real-time data visualization
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Exposure to quantitative models or working with quants

About DV Trading

DV Trading is an independent proprietary trading firm founded in 2016, part of the DV Group of financial services firms headquartered in Chicago with over 600 people across North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm uses its own capital and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets. DV Group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and an investment adviser.