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Staff Quantitative Developer at DriveWealth

Department: EngineeringEducation: education_optional

Compensation · Listed in posting

$220,000 – $240,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

DriveWealth is hiring a Staff Quantitative Developer to build and maintain a core, ultra-low-latency trading system. The role focuses on pricing and order-handling logic, translating quantitative models and trading strategies into deterministic, testable production code, optimizing critical-path performance, and supporting system design, testing, on-call operations, incident response, and capacity planning. Candidates need at least six years of professional software development experience, strong quantitative or financial-domain expertise, low-latency production-system experience, JVM-based concurrency and performance knowledge, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. The position is hybrid in Chicago, Illinois, with an office cadence set by the hiring manager or team, and pays $220,000–$240,000 USD.

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