Senior Software Engineer, Trading Team

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience designing, building, and operating systems with high complexity.
• Prior experience in equity stat-arb in a hedge fund, prop trading, or systematic trading environment is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with the 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.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate research and production infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies.
• Own hands-on engineering work across the full trading stack, including data ingestion, research tooling, back testing, production strategy deployment, execution integration, real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and post-trade analysis.
• 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.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support

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We are DRW, 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, and 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, and we value high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus.

last updated 34 week of 2026