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title: 'Risk Developer at DV Trading'
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# Risk Developer at DV Trading

- **Company:** DV Trading
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dvtrading/jobs/4732225005

## Job description

About Us:

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

We are seeking a full-stack developer to join our risk team. This role supports the design, build, and operation of the in-house risk engine, which powers real-time calculation and monitoring of PnL, VaR, greeks, risk slides, and other key risk metrics.

The ideal candidate combines solid backend and frontend development skills with strong DevOps fundamentals and hands-on experience using AI tooling in day-to-day development. You will work closely with senior risk developers, quantitative analysts, and market risk analysts to turn financial models into reliable, production-ready applications and keep them running smoothly under live trading conditions.

Job Responsibilities:

- Build and maintain real-time risk systems used daily by risk, traders, and executives, including:
- 24/5 live PnL tracking
- VaR and other exposure calculations
- Web-based risk dashboards
- Interactive analytical tools
- Alerting and monitoring systems
- Own deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure for risk applications: containerization, pipeline automation, environment management, observability, and incident response.
- Improve system reliability, performance, and availability, with a focus on low latency and stability during market hours.
- Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and debugging.
- Develop and enhance applications that integrate LLM APIs for automation, analysis, and workflow improvements.
- Build responsive front-end interfaces for visualizing and interacting with risk metrics.
- Collaborate with the risk team to understand requirements and implement risk models.
- Write clean, well-documented, and tested code; participate in code reviews and design discussions.

Requirements:

- 4+ years of professional experience as a full-stack developer, preferably in the financial industry or proprietary trading.
- Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, backend logic, and model integration.
- Solid DevOps experience: Docker, CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Linux administration, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana). Experience with Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows, and a practical understanding of how to apply them effectively and safely.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic) into applications, including prompt design, tool/function calling, and evaluation.
- Experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Angular, or Vue).
- Proficiency in SQL and a solid understanding of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL stores (e.g. Redis).
- Understanding of data structures, APIs, and real-time data processing.
- Familiarity with real-time data visualization.
- Exposure to quantitative models or working with quants is a plus.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

DV is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with DV should submit resumes in response to DV’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to DV via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of DV, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DV. DV is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About DV Trading

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DV Trading is a North American-based proprietary trading firm that provides liquidity to global financial markets across derivatives, securities, commodities, and cryptocurrency.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, no external funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Dino Verbrugge and Jared Vegosen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Proprietary Trading
- **Target customers**: Institutional counterparties, commodity producers/users, and qualified investors (B2B). The firm trades its own capital and also offers select strategies to outside investors.
- **Mission statement**: "To adapt, innovate and evolve" in all aspects of the organization.

## Products & Services
- **DV Trading (Core)**: Proprietary trading across futures, options, equities, foreign exchange, fixed income, and cryptocurrency. The firm acts as a liquidity provider and trades on both a quantitative and discretionary basis globally.
- **DV Commodities**: A division specializing in trading commodity products, including crude oil, refined products, natural gas, power, and emissions. One of the world's largest liquidity providers in the energy space, with over 35 desks.
- **DV Securities**: An SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FICC that provides financing solutions (repo and reverse repo) for fixed income portfolios (agency MBS, US Treasuries), processing tens of billions of dollars in trades daily.
- **DV Equities**: An equities-focused proprietary trading firm registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC.
- **DV Investment Management**: Makes select scalable proprietary strategies available to qualified investors (funds of funds, PE, VC, DeFi).
- **Newton Crypto** (via affiliate DVX Capital Markets): A retail-focused crypto trading platform registered with the Ontario Securities Commission in Canada.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 600 employees globally (as of 2025), with 500+ traders and staff across offices in Chicago, New York, London, Toronto, Dubai, Miami, Houston, and the Bahamas.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (bootstrapped). Key partnerships include relationships with prime brokers, FCMs, exchanges (FICC member), and custodial banks.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Completed acquisition and integration of Allston Trading in 2021, adding low-latency systems and trading tools.
  - Rapid headcount growth: from ~300 personnel in 2021 to 500+ in 2022 to 600+ today.
  - Global office expansion to 8 locations across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Diversified multi-asset platform**: DV trades across futures, options, equities, FX, fixed income, crypto, and commodities, allowing them to pivot capital to wherever opportunities arise.
- **Proprietary technology**: Cutting-edge low-latency trading infrastructure and proprietary software built in-house.
- **Strong risk management**: A dedicated risk team and rigorous frameworks designed to maximize risk-adjusted returns while protecting capital.
- **Regulatory infrastructure**: Multiple regulated entities (SEC, FINRA, CIRO, FICC) provide credibility and access to clearing and settlement systems.
- **20-year track record**: Survived and thrived through multiple market cycles since 2006.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Continued growth into new asset classes and geographic markets (recent addition of Dubai, Bahamas offices).
- **Technology investment**: Deepening their proprietary trading platform and low-latency systems.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring experienced traders and graduate hires across all desks, particularly in commodities and technology.
- **Diversification**: Expanding into new strategies and making select proprietary strategies available to outside capital.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include excellence, agility, ownership, curiosity, and unity. The firm emphasizes a flat, collaborative structure where individuals are empowered to take ownership and make decisions.
- **Work environment**: Fast-paced, high-stakes trading environment with a focus on continuous learning and innovation. Traders are given significant autonomy and access to world-class technology.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but presence in 8 global offices suggests a preference for in-office collaboration, typical of proprietary trading firms.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to trade with the firm's own capital (no personal risk), access to cutting-edge technology, and a meritocratic culture where performance is directly rewarded.
- **Engineering culture**: Developers work closely with traders and risk teams to build real-time systems. Tech stack includes C++, Python, Linux, and SQL. Roles range from back-office development to low-latency systems engineering.

## Sources
1. [dvtrading.co](https://dvtrading.co/)
2. [dvtrading.co - Who We Are](https://dvtrading.co/who-we-are/)
3. [dvtrading.co - What We Do](https://dvtrading.co/what-we-do/)
4. [Greenhouse - Back Office Developer (London) Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dvtrading/jobs/4692100005)
5. [LinkedIn - DV Trading LLC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dv-trading)

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