Senior Software Engineer, Trading Team

Company: DRW
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Location: London
Job Description:

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

Key requirements

  • 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

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Posted: September 14th, 2026