{"id":1646246,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dv-trading-risk-developer","title":"Risk Developer","company":{"id":716060,"name":"DV Trading","domain":"dvtrading.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/dv-trading","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":25,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.08,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":140,"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":85000,"max_usd":202000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":20},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"Angular","optional":true},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":true},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"MySQL","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true},{"name":"Vue.js","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T20:44:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-02T14:54:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About Us:\nFounded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DVGroup of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. 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:\nWe are seeking a full-stack developer to join our risk team. This role supports the design, build, and operation of the in-house risk engine, which powers real-time calculation and monitoring of PnL, VaR, greeks, risk slides, and other key risk metrics.\nThe ideal candidate combines solid backend and frontend development skills with strong DevOps fundamentals and hands-on experience using AI tooling in day-to-day development. You will work closely with senior risk developers, quantitative analysts, and market risk analysts to turn financial models into reliable, production-ready applications and keep them running smoothly under live trading conditions.\nJob Responsibilities:\nBuild and maintain real-time risk systems used daily by risk, traders, and executives, including:24/5 live PnL tracking\nVaR and other exposure calculations\nWeb-based risk dashboards\nInteractive analytical tools\nAlerting and monitoring systems\n\nOwn deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure for risk applications: containerization, pipeline automation, environment management, observability, and incident response.\nImprove system reliability, performance, and availability, with a focus on low latency and stability during market hours.\nUse AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and debugging.\nDevelop and enhance applications that integrate LLM APIs for automation, analysis, and workflow improvements.\nBuild responsive front-end interfaces for visualizing and interacting with risk metrics.\nCollaborate with the risk team to understand requirements and implement risk models.\nWrite clean, well-documented, and tested code; participate in code reviews and design discussions.\nRequirements:\n4+ years of professional experience as a full-stack developer, preferably in the financial industry or proprietary trading.\nStrong proficiency in Python for data processing, backend logic, and model integration.\nSolid DevOps experience: Docker, CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Linux administration, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana). Experience with Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.\nHands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows, and a practical understanding of how to apply them effectively and safely.\nExperience integrating LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic) into applications, including prompt design, tool/function calling, and evaluation.\nExperience with at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Angular, or Vue).\nProficiency in SQL and a solid understanding of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL stores (e.g. Redis).\nUnderstanding of data structures, APIs, and real-time data processing.\nFamiliarity with real-time data visualization.\nExposure to quantitative models or working with quants is a plus.\nAbility to work independently and collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\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. 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