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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 9 days DRW 's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 34% of DRW 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at DRW
- high 132 stale, 0 reposted of 163 open
- Hiring momentum
- 195 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DRW 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DRW .
About this role
As a Software Engineer in Research Technology at DRW, you will be part of a small team focused on building a software platform for researchers conducting compute-heavy analyses on large event-stream datasets. Your responsibilities will include designing and maintaining high-performance software systems, implementing data pipelines, and creating research tooling that enhances the efficiency of quant researchers and trading teams. The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and the use of modern technologies like C++ and Python.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DRW as an employer.
What you need
- 2+ years of professional experience building large-scale, high-performance systems
- Daily use of modern C++ (>=17) and Python
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networking, OS, concurrency, and system design
- Data engineering fluency: designing schemas, choosing storage formats, understanding compression and I/O trade-offs
- Experience designing and operating services or platforms used by other technical users in data-intensive environments
- Comfortable supporting internal users and iterating on ergonomics and workflows
Nice to have
- Rust experience alongside C++ and Python
- Experience running compute at cluster scale: job scheduling, resource management, retries, and reliability
- GPU programming experience
- Familiarity with ML/Deep Learning frameworks
- Prior finance or market-data experience, including low-level market connectivity
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Mentorship and onboarding are emphasized, which may be beneficial for less experienced candidates
- The role involves a mix of software engineering and data engineering, which may appeal to those with diverse skill sets
- Candidates from bigtech, telco, gaming, or research-computing backgrounds are encouraged to apply, indicating a broad acceptance of transferable skills
Summarised from DRW 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by DRW on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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