DRW
UI/TypeScript Engineer, Commodities Engineering
DRW, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246
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.)
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
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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.)
For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.
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