Software Developer Intern (Python)

DRW is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm. We trade our own capital at our own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments, and strategies in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 25 years, so has DRW—maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets, and venture capital. With over 1,000 employees at our Chicago headquarters and offices around the world, we work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus, and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity, and thoughtful collaboration.

Quantitative Developer Intern

As a Quantitative Developer Intern, you will implement software solutions that use advanced statistical methods and have a direct impact on automated trading strategies across multiple asset classes. You will work closely with our Quantitative Researchers on idea generation and development and will be able to solve challenging technological problems. You will have access to cutting-edge technology, hardware, and grid computing, and will be given immediate responsibility. While your days will be immersed in complex projects directly driving DRW's progress, your time will also be packed with education, responsibility, problem-solving, and social events to experience what it is like to work at DRW.

How you will make an impact...

• Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary software solutions for complex algorithmic trading systems.
• Optimize large-scale data processing and modeling.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate research-based trading strategies into production software.
• Build software to manage risk and execution of our trading system.
• Automate human-decision-based trading strategies and implement algorithmic trades from trading ideas.
• Manage day-to-day technology requirements of our proprietary trading systems and evaluate new technologies to improve the current stack.

You will be at home if you have...

• Are pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics, or any related science discipline with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Excellent software development skills in Python.
• Strong problem-solving and statistics skills.
• Skills in asynchronous and multi-threaded software; handling, maintaining, and processing large data sets; and network programming.
• A strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

What to expect during the internship...

• Meaningful projects: You’ll receive a challenging project to complete during your time here. Each project, advised by a software engineer, promotes a comprehensive learning experience and provides you with meaningful work experience.
• Community: Throughout the summer, we host a variety of educational, social, and team-building activities to foster friendship and camaraderie.
• Mentorship: You’ll build a professional relationship with an experienced mentor in your field. Mentors and mentees meet to discuss goals, challenges, and professional development and explore the city together at our mentor outings.

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.

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