Software Engineer - Cumberland/FICCO Front Office Systems

As a Software Engineer on DRW's Cumberland/FICCO Front Office Systems team, you collaborate directly with traders to build scalable, performant, and reliable production systems that turn alpha signals, risk management, market visualizations, and other trading-critical tools into reality. You operate in two distinct modes: embedding directly on trading desks to solve high-impact problems under urgency, then extracting reusable patterns to benefit all desks. You work at the intersection of customer success and creating quality products that endure.

What you'll do

• Work with best-in-class trading tools for Cumberland and FICC options trading desks
• Take full ownership of the products you create, from prototype to stable production
• Embed with trading desks, learn their problem spaces, extract domain models, and build ergonomic, performant, and extendable engineering solutions
• Build, maintain, and extend the central trading platform
• Work with both greenfield and legacy systems across multiple languages including C++, Python, and Typescript
• Provide on-call support as needed

What you bring

• Up to 7 years of experience using C++ and Python, with comfort working across multiple programming languages
• A track record of working directly with end customers, scoping and delivering production systems in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
• Ability to dive deep into complex problems, develop intuitive understandings, spot risks early, and minimize complexity
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, communicating clearly with stakeholders and engineers to foster a collaborative, supportive working environment
• Experience in financial markets, especially delta one store of value and/or FICC options trading
• Experience with Linux-based, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systems
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

• Experience with functional programming

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $175,000 to $225,000 depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Comprehensive 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

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. The firm trades a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy across all major global markets, and has also expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets using its own capital and trading at its own risk.