UI/TypeScript Engineer, Commodities Engineering

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

A rapidly expanding global trading desk is looking for a UI/Typescript Engineer to join their team in Houston OR Austin. In this role, you’ll be expected to design, develop and test proprietary trading software.  The firm has built up a significant set of tools and technology, which you will have access to. You will be expected to pragmatically focus on business value by leveraging our existing tools and infrastructure wherever possible.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Create tools and workflows that enable exploratory research
• Develop products from inception to production, identifying business needs, user experience, and product evangelism
• Craft APIs that enable research productivity
• Build and iterate on platform software to improve developer experience as well as user experience
• Build web user interfaces for data exploration and delivery of research results
• Build systems to enable automated testing of systematic trading web-applications and deployment into our production trading environment
• Collaborate with your peers at DRW as a subject matter expert to learn & contribute to research work across the firm

You’ll be right at home if you have:

• An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software’s users
• Leadership skills and a team-orientated mentality
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business critical applications

Required Technical Experience

• 5 years of experience with web development in a modern front-end framework (React, Angular, Lit, Vue, etc)
• Great working knowledge of Typescript and CSS
• Able to manage complex state management paradigms
• Strong API design and data modeling skills
• User Experience design skills for data-dense Financial/B2B applications, with an appreciation for design systems/component libraries
• Experience writing software with large datasets and high availability
• A keen understanding of browser performance optimization techniques
• Best practices for client-side code testing using tooling such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, React Testing Library, etc
• Familiarity with AG Grid and common charting libraries (HighCharts, D3, etc)
• Experience with at least one "back-end" programming language (Python, Java, C++, C#, Rust, etc.)

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