DriveWealth
Staff Quantitative Developer
Office - Chicago · Staff+
No sponsorship$220k-$240kDetected 1 day ago
Distributed SystemsCode ReviewKafkaPandasData AnalysisA/B TestingIncident ResponseComplianceRecruitingCadenceCommunication
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- This is a hands-on engineering role embedded within a high-performance, deterministic trading system, working closely with traders, risk, and quant researchers to translate trading logic into production-grade, low-latency code.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement pricing and order-handling logic within a low-latency, deterministic trading engine
- Partner with quant researchers and trading desks to translate models and trading strategies into deterministic, testable production code
- Optimize critical-path logic to meet strict end-to-end latency targets
- Participate in system design discussions around state persistence and failover/recovery for a clustered, stateful engine
- Write comprehensive automated tests (unit and behavior-driven) to validate correctness of pricing and trading logic under a wide range of market scenarios
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time in a senior or lead capacity
- Proven experience building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput production systems
- To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in office on a hybrid schedule.
Requirements
- Proficiency in quantitative data analysis using data frames or similar tabular tooling (e.g., pandas, Polars, R) for exploring, validating, and back-testing trading logic against historical data
- Experience with distributed systems concepts-consensus/clustering, state replication, and failover
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience with event-sourced or snapshot-based state persistence and schema/data migration strategies
- Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka) in a trading or financial context
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a quantitative discipline
- Prior experience with proprietary or in-house trading platforms/frameworks
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Nice to have
- Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)
Compensation
- $220,000 - $240,000 USD
- To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match.
Benefits
- We also offer Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Disability insurance, and Paid Parental Leave, along with a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance.
- Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.
Company info
- DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.
- There's never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!
- DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier.
- We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems.
- We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world.
- Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.
- Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership.
- DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.
- There's never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity.
- Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street.
- We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do.
- Join us and help build the future of global investing!
- We are seeking a Staff Quantitative Developer to join the team building a core, ultra-low-latency trading system.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application.
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