Trade Support Intern

DRW · Chicago, IL

About the role

Our formula for success is to hire exceptional people, encourage their&nbsp;ideas&nbsp;and reward their results.&nbsp; As a Trade Support Intern, you will gain hands-on experience at the intersection of trading, technology, and operations. Through your contributions to Trade Support, you will help improve the tools, workflows, and processes that keep our trading desks running effectively. How you will make an impact…&nbsp; <ul> <li>Work on refactoring and improving existing scripts within the trade support team.&nbsp;</li> <li>Support trade capture across the full range of desk products, including futures, futures options, equities, equity options, and index options.&nbsp;</li> <li>Provide operational and technical support to the firm's FICC trading desks.&nbsp;</li> <li>Assist&nbsp;with tool functionality and testing to support front-end operations.&nbsp;&nbsp; </li> <li>Contribute to reporting and data analysis.&nbsp; </li> </ul> What&nbsp;you will&nbsp;bring to the team…&nbsp; <ul> <li>Are pursuing a bachelor’s or&nbsp;master’s in&nbsp;Computer Science&nbsp;and have an expected graduation date between&nbsp;December 2027&nbsp;and&nbsp;June 2028&nbsp;</li> <li>Proficiency&nbsp;in Python programming&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience with version control systems (GitHub)&nbsp;</li> <li>Demonstrated experience with development work or similar technical projects&nbsp; </li> <li>Work authorization in the United States without the need for sponsorship</li> </ul> What to expect during the internship…&nbsp; <ul> <li>Meaningful projects:&nbsp;You’ll&nbsp;receive a challenging project to complete&nbsp;during your time&nbsp;here. Each project,&nbsp;advised by a&nbsp;member of your team,&nbsp;promotes a comprehensive learning experience&nbsp;and&nbsp;provides you with&nbsp;meaningful work experience.&nbsp;</li> <li>Community:&nbsp;Throughout the summer,&nbsp;we host&nbsp;a variety of educational,&nbsp;social&nbsp;and team-building activities to foster friendship and camaraderie.&nbsp;</li> <li>Housing:&nbsp;DRW provides fully furnished apartments&nbsp;located&nbsp;close to the office&nbsp;–making your morning commute&nbsp;as easy as possible.&nbsp;</li> <li>Mentorship:&nbsp;You’ll&nbsp;build a professional relationship with an experienced mentor&nbsp;in your field.

Mentors and mentees meet to discuss goals, challenges and professional development&nbsp;and&nbsp;explore&nbsp;the city together&nbsp;at our&nbsp;mentor outings.&nbsp;</li> <li>Education:&nbsp;As technology continues to drive the trading industry forward, both in terms of new products and transaction methods, the future will present us with unique opportunities and challenges. To prepare you for&nbsp;how technology will continue to&nbsp;impact&nbsp;trading’s future landscape, you will complete an options course framed from a developer’s standpoint to help you visualize how your technology solutions will be used in real time.&nbsp;As the trading industry continually evolves, both in terms of new products and transaction methods, the future will present us with unique opportunities and challenges.&nbsp;</li> </ul> DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to&nbsp;operate&nbsp;in markets around the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we&nbsp;operate&nbsp;using our own capital and trading at our own risk.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also&nbsp;leveraged&nbsp;our&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture&nbsp;capital&nbsp;and&nbsp;cryptoassets.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We&nbsp;operate&nbsp;with respect,&nbsp;curiosity&nbsp;and open minds.

The people who thrive here share our belief that&nbsp;it’s&nbsp;not just what we&nbsp;do&nbsp;that matters–it's&nbsp;how we do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;DRW is a place of&nbsp;high expectations, integrity,&nbsp;innovation&nbsp;and a willingness to challenge consensus.&nbsp; The annual base salary for this position is $110,000.&nbsp; For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at <a href="https://drw.com/privacy-notice">https://drw.com/privacy-notice</a>. California residents, please review the&nbsp;California Privacy Notice&nbsp;for information about certain legal rights at&nbsp;<a href="https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice">https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice</a>. #LI-DNI &nbsp;&nbsp;

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