Software and quant developer roles at the high-frequency and prop trading firms: Jane Street, Jump, Optiver, DRW, IMC, Tower and Virtu.
Tower Research Capital, a quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, is hiring a Systems Developer for its PAAS team in Montréal (posted 2026-10-05, bilingual posting). The role covers designing and running bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, building Kubernetes operators, and maintaining developer tooling and documentation; pay is not stated.
DRW, a Chicago-headquartered trading firm, is hiring a Service Reliability Engineering Technical Lead for its Container Infrastructure team in Chicago or Austin (posted 2026-10-02). The team runs a Kubernetes platform of hundreds of clusters and thousands of nodes for trading desks; pay is $250,000 to $300,000.
Tower Research Capital is hiring a Research Platform Engineer in New York for its Core Engineering team (posted 2026-10-02), to build a multi-tenant research compute platform orchestrating large-scale ML workloads across GPUs and CPUs. Pay is $200,000-$300,000, and the work involves close collaboration with quant researchers and portfolio managers.
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