Senior Software Engineer, Trading Team
DRW
Overview
In this role you will design, build, and operate the research and production infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage. You will own the full trading stack—from data ingestion to post-trade analysis—working hands-on to enable research and live trading workflows. You’ll contribute to scalable, reliable systems with strong observability and maintainability in a hedge fund setting. This is an opportunity to shape end-to-end trading infrastructure at a firm that values autonomy, innovation, and rigorous engineering.
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
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Prior experience in equity stat-arb in a hedge fund, prop trading or systematic trading environment is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with 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
- strong problem-solving ability
- attention to detail
- ability to work across multiple domains and teams
- end-to-end systematic trading stack
- data ingestion and data pipelines
- research, simulation, and back testing platforms
Reference: WJ-747_30179710