Trade Support Intern

Our formula for success is to hire exceptional people, encourage their ideas and reward their results.

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…

• Work on refactoring and improving existing scripts within the trade support team.

• Support trade capture across the full range of desk products, including futures, futures options, equities, equity options, and index options.

• Provide operational and technical support to the firm''s FICC trading desks.

• Assist with tool functionality and testing to support front-end operations.

• Contribute to reporting and data analysis.

What you will bring to the team…

• Are pursuing a bachelor's or master's in Computer Science and have an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028
• Proficiency in Python programming
• Experience with version control systems (GitHub)
• Demonstrated experience with development work or similar technical projects

What to expect during the internship…

• Meaningful projects: You'll receive a challenging project to complete during your time here. Each project, advised by a member of your team, promotes a comprehensive learning experience and provides you with meaningful work experience.
• Community: Throughout the summer, we host a variety of educational, social and team-building activities to foster friendship and camaraderie.
• Housing: DRW provides fully furnished apartments located close to the office -making your morning commute as easy as possible.
• Mentorship: You'll build a professional relationship with an experienced mentor in your field. Mentors and mentees meet to discuss goals, challenges and professional development and explore the city together at our mentor outings.
• Education: 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 how technology will continue to impact 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. 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.

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

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 leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it's not just what we do that matters-it''s how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

The annual base salary for this position is $110,000.

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