Risk Developer

As a Risk Developer at DV Trading, you will join the risk team to design, build, and operate an in-house risk engine that powers real-time calculation and monitoring of PnL, VaR, greeks, risk slides, and other key risk metrics. You combine solid backend and frontend development skills with strong DevOps fundamentals and hands-on experience using AI tooling. Working closely with senior risk developers, quantitative analysts, and market risk analysts, you turn financial models into reliable, production-ready applications that run smoothly under live trading conditions.

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, including 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, and 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 with Docker, CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Linux administration, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, 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 (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic) into applications, including prompt design, tool/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 (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL stores (e.g. 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 (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Exposure to quantitative models or working with quants

What we offer

• Base salary of $170,000-$225,000 USD
• 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, and AD&D insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• Retirement plan with employer match

About DV Trading

DV Trading is an independent proprietary trading firm founded in 2016 as a spinout from a large brokerage firm. Headquartered in Chicago with over 600 people across North America, Europe, and Asia, DV Trading utilizes its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets. The DV group now includes two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and an investment adviser.