DV Trading
Back Office Developer
$150K–$250K
Chicago +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
New York
Chicago
New York
About the job
Develop and operate back-office systems that process trading data and provide timely information to traders, risk management, and accounting.
What you'll do
- Build real-time and batch data processing, reports, and database schemas.
- Monitor scheduled jobs and ensure reliable delivery of daily and intraday trade and position data.
- Collaborate with engineers and business teams on back-office systems and operations.
What they ask for
- Senior professional-level Python skills, including typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning.
- Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems, including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience; workflow orchestration and CI/CD experience.
- Automated testing, code review, incident response, and runbook discipline; fluency with Atlassian tooling.
Nice to have
- Trade lifecycle knowledge for futures and options, or experience with trading and position platforms and related data feeds.
- Reconciliation/data quality frameworks, DevOps/SRE, on-prem infrastructure, or agent patterns.
Pay
$150,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary); $150,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Airflow, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, LLM APIs
AI focus
Apply LLM APIs for automation or analysis and use AI coding assistants with human review; agent patterns are a nice-to-have.
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