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Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DVTrading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DVgroup affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.\nOverview:\nDVis 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.\nJob Responsibilities:\nWork alongside other software engineers, risk management, accounting and traders to provide real-time and batch processing of data.\nGenerate daily reports for the firm and traders from overnight data.\nDesign and use of database schemas to facilitate processing of data.\nMonitoring of daily jobs to ensure timely dissemination of vital information.\nEnsuring the flow of real-time trade data to provide accurate intraday position and trade data to risk management and traders.\nRequirements:\nPython at a senior professional level: typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning\n\nProduction ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines (start-of-day and end-of-day processing), including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery\n\nStrong SQL and PostgreSQL experience: schema design, migrations, query tuning, data integrity controls\n\nWorkflow orchestration experience (Airflow or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines\n\nDemonstrated quality discipline: automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through\n\nFluency with Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) as a daily working environment\n\nPractical experience applying AI: LLM APIs for automation or analysis, and thoughtful use of AI coding assistants with human review\n\nClear written and verbal communication with non-engineers: operations, accounting, settlements, and middle office staff\n\nAbility to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make sound design decisions independently\n\nNice to Have:\nTrade lifecycle domain knowledge for futures and options: trade capture, allocations, give-ups, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions and fees, margin, PnL\n\nExperience with trading and position platforms (TPOS or similar), broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX/drop-copy ingestion\n\nReconciliation and data quality frameworks, and building audit trails\n\nExperience moving legacy jobs and servers onto a cleaner architecture without breaking daily operations\n\nDevOps and SRE foundation: Docker, infrastructure as code, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)\n\nOn-prem and bare metal infrastructure exposure alongside cloud\n\nAgent patterns: tools, guardrails, human-in-the-loop review\n\nLight front-end skills (internal tools and dashboards)\n\nBenefits:\nDiscretionary bonus eligibility\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance\nHSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options\nEmployer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance\nVoluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance\nFlexible Vacation policy\nRetirement plan with employer match\nDVis not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DVshould submit resumes in response to DV’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DVvia e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DVis proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\nThe 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.\nBase Salary Range\n$150,000—$250,000 USD\nThe 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. 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