Research

You build the software a trading research team uses to test ideas, simulate strategies and get them into live markets. The seat is a Research Engineer on a systematic research team at DRW in London, with options as the team's market. Systematic means the trading follows rules written in code rather than a person deciding trade by trade. Options are contracts giving the right to buy or sell something at a set price, and a systematic options team needs software to price them, test strategies on past data and run them live.

You sit between the quantitative researchers who have the ideas, the traders who use them and the technologists who keep it all running, and you contribute across the whole stack, from software design and data engineering to distributed computing and quantitative modelling.