Overview: DV is looking for an experienced software developer to work with a small team responsible for development and daily operations of back-office systems that provide services to traders, risk management and accounting.
Job Responsibilities:- Work alongside other software engineers, risk management, accounting and traders to provide real-time and batch processing of data.
- Generate daily reports for the firm and traders from overnight data.
- Design and use of database schemas to facilitate processing of data.
- Monitoring of daily jobs to ensure timely dissemination of vital information.
- Ensuring the flow of real-time trade data to provide accurate intraday position and trade data to risk management and traders.
Requirements:- Python at a senior professional level: typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning
- Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines (start-of-day and end-of-day processing), including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience: schema design, migrations, query tuning, data integrity controls
- Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated quality discipline: automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through
- Fluency with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) as a daily working environment
- Practical experience applying AI: LLM APIs for automation or analysis, and thoughtful use of AI coding assistants with human review
- Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineers: operations, accounting, settlements, and middle office staff
- Ability to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make sound design decisions independently
Nice to Have:- Trade lifecycle domain knowledge for futures and options: trade capture, allocations, give-ups, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions and fees, margin, PnL
- Experience with trading and position platforms (TPOS or similar), broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX/drop-copy ingestion
- Reconciliation and data quality frameworks, and building audit trails
- Experience moving legacy jobs and servers onto a cleaner architecture without breaking daily operations
- DevOps and SRE foundation: Docker, infrastructure as code, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)
- On-prem and bare metal infrastructure exposure alongside cloud
- Agent patterns: tools, guardrails, human-in-the-loop review
- Light front-end skills (internal tools and dashboards)
Benefits: - Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
- Flexible Vacation policy
- Retirement plan with employer match
The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.
Base Salary Range
$150,000-$250,000 USD
The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.
Base Salary Range
$150,000-$250,000 USD
