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Posted October 23, 2026

UP - Analytics/Middle Office - Quant Developer

DRW

Category:Quantitative Development

Location:Chicago

Seniority
Senior
Employment type
Full-time
Salary (per year)
$150k–$200k
Bonus
Yes

Requirements

  • Experience using applied mathematics (linear algebra, optimization, numerical methods)
  • Strong understanding of statistics and probabilities
  • Quantitative modeling of financial products and derivatives
  • Fluent in functional, object-oriented, or imperative programming languages
  • Competent in distributed version control, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Possesses the ability to learn, adapt and grow
  • Demonstrates personal humility, respect for others, and trust in their teammates
  • Capable of independently driving projects to completion but prefers collaborating with teammates
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, but has better listening and communication skills

About the role

The UP - Analytics - Middle Office team is looking for an outstanding Quant Developer with diverse technical and interpersonal skills to join us in the next step of our development as we significantly expand our technical capabilities, enabling us to have an even greater impact across the firm. This team build and maintains services which:

  • Calculate analytic measures across many asset classes
  • Predict theoretical market outcomes based on user-defined what-if scenarios
  • Return analytics for any time horizon

We collaborate closely with risk managers and trading desks to measure option and rate sensitivities and create applications to monitor, manage, and report analytic measures. We’re looking for talented software engineers with proven experience in the trading and finance industry.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with stakeholders and quantitative teams to design and implement complex financial modeling solutions
  • Leverage your expertise in finance and quantitative analysis to architect robust, scalable analytics systems
  • Write readable and well-tested code in multiple languages, paradigms, and platforms
  • Collaborating with various business, development, IT, and trading support teams
  • Provide on-call support as part of our team-wide rotation
  • Keep open communication with our users for support, testing, and ensuring understanding of their needs

What you'll get

  • $150k–$200k base salary
  • group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
  • 401k (with discretionary employer match)
  • short and long-term disability
  • life and AD&D insurance
  • health savings accounts
  • flexible spending accounts

Skills

Linear algebra · Optimization · Numerical methods · Statistics · Probabilities · Quantitative modeling of financial products and derivatives · Functional programming · Object-oriented programming · Imperative programming · Distributed version control · CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes · Elixir · Python · Java · C# · C · C++ · Rust · Pricing · Risk management · Portfolio analytics · Exchange-traded financial assets · Financial engineering · Data structures · Design/analysis of algorithms