DV Trading
Risk Developer
$170K–$225K
Chicago · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of professional full-stack development experience; financial industry or proprietary trading experience preferred.
About the job
Build and operate full-stack, real-time risk applications that calculate and display trading metrics, while managing deployment and integrating AI tools and LLM APIs.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain real-time risk calculations, dashboards, analytical tools, and alerting systems.
- Own deployment, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, and reliability of risk applications.
- Collaborate with risk stakeholders to implement models and use AI tools and LLM APIs to improve development and workflows.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional full-stack development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and solid DevOps experience, including Docker, CI/CD, Linux administration, and monitoring/logging tools.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows, and experience integrating LLM APIs.
- Experience with a modern JavaScript framework, SQL, relational databases and/or NoSQL stores, and real-time data processing.
Nice to have
- Experience in financial industry or proprietary trading.
- Exposure to quantitative models or working with quants; Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code experience.
Pay
$170,000 — $225,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, React
AI focus
Use AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows in development, testing, documentation, and debugging; integrate LLM APIs for automation, analysis, and workflow improvements.
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