DriveWealth
Staff Quantitative Developer
$220K–$240K
Office - Chicago · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time in a senior or lead capacity.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship; the company does not sponsor or support employment authorization, including transfers.
About the job
Build and optimize pricing and order-handling logic for an ultra-low-latency, deterministic trading system.
What you'll do
- Implement pricing, order-lifecycle, and trading logic in a low-latency trading engine; translate models and strategies into production code.
- Optimize critical-path performance and contribute to system design for persistence, failover, and recovery.
- Develop automated tests and participate in code reviews, on-call, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
What they ask for
- Strong quantitative or financial-domain background, such as pricing models, market microstructure, order matching, or trading systems.
- Experience building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput production systems, with deep JVM-language knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing deterministic, reproducible systems; grounding in numerical precision and decimal/fixed-point arithmetic; and quantitative data analysis using tabular tools.
- Experience with distributed systems, strong testing discipline, and a bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with a regulated trading venue, market data or trading protocols such as FIX, or trading-related streaming/event-driven architectures such as Kafka.
- Advanced quantitative degree or experience with event-sourced or snapshot-based persistence.
Pay
$220,000 – $240,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
JVM-based language, pandas, Polars, R, FIX protocol, Kafka
AI focus
The company encourages using emerging AI tools and internal technology to improve signal quality, reduce friction, outcomes, product delivery, partner service, and processes; specific AI development work is not stated.
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