Senior Software Engineer, Unified Platform (Reference Data)

• →Develop tools to enable the business to rapidly embrace new opportunities in global markets
• →Partner closely with internal customers to understand their needs and build intuitive self-service tools
• →Develop software for large scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization
• →Work with a team to maintain and extend our global markets reach
• →Learn about market microstructure, financial instruments, and markets in which DRW participates or wants to participate in

• Are motivated to solve hard problems with deceptively simple solutions
• Think a lot about user experience and try to really understand end users’ jobs and pain points
• Think a lot about APIs, modular design and testing
• Love refactoring and keep trying until you find a better answer
• Enjoy making the “right way to do it” the path of least resistance
• Have made a random tool for yourself…and then peers ask for it…then other teams ask for it…
• Are fiercely proud of your project’s reliability, performance and ease of maintenance
• Are excited to learn about financial markets, trading, etc.

• 5+ years of platform-level software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals; a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience with Java, Python or any modern programming language
• Experience processing high volumes of data at scale
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfort working within a globally-distributed team
• A background in some of the following a bonus:
• Java experience
• Python experience
• Ruby experience
• Big data technologies: Spark, Trino, Kafka
• Financial Markets experience
• SQL: Postgres, Oracle
• Cloud-native deployments: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Observability: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana 

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