Senior Quantitative Developer
DRWAbout the Role
DRW is seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer / Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate state-of-the-art infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies. This role requires hands-on ownership of production trading systems across the full systematic trading stack, from data ingestion through execution and real-time monitoring.
- Architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end production infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies
- Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines for market, fundamental, and alternative datasets
- Develop and maintain research and back testing platforms with realistic transaction cost, execution, and constraint modeling
- Integrate strategies with execution systems and order management, and support real-time trading and monitoring
- Ensure production systems are performant, reliable, observable, and operationally robust
- Build tooling for diagnostics, performance attribution, and post-trade analysis
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