Software Engineer, Cumberland/FICCO Tools Engineering

About this role

DRW's Tools Engineering team seeks a Software Engineer to build and maintain trading systems for Cumberland and FICC options desks. You'll alternate between embedded deployments with trading teams to solve high-impact problems and returning to generalize solutions across the platform.

What you'll do

• Embed with trading desks to understand problems, design domain models, and deliver specialized engineering solutions
• Own products end-to-end from prototype through stable production
• Build, maintain, and extend the central trading platform across multiple languages
• Extract reusable patterns from forward deployments and make tools available to all trading desks
• Work with both greenfield and legacy systems in Python, Java, C++, and TypeScript
• Provide on-call support as needed

What they're looking for

• Python, Java, C++, or TypeScript (2+ years experience)
• Customer-facing delivery in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Complex problem analysis and risk identification
• Clear communication with stakeholders and engineers
• Linux-based, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Financial markets experience (delta one/FICC options preferred)
• Functional programming (plus)
• Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or Engineering background

Benefits

• Annual base salary $175k-$225k based on experience
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Group medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k with discretionary employer match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance