Developer Experience Engineer at DRW | England, GB | Rezi

Developer Experience Engineer at DRW

Developer Experience Engineer

DRW · England, GB

1 months ago

Developer Experience Engineer

DRW · England, GB

2 months ago
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About the Role

The Developer Experience team provides mission-critical services to DRW's software engineering community. This dynamic role involves end-to-end service ownership, development through strategic projects, and dedicated support to internal customers. You will tackle build challenges, refine observability and alerting systems, and build great developer workflows, enabling all engineers at DRW to do their best work.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with leaders, trading teams, and developers to act as a force multiplier for the engineering population.
  • Work within a US & UK based team with product and technical ownership of services including source control, build artifact repositories, AI-powered development tools, and other software development and delivery tools.
  • Participate in a scheduled support rotation during UK business hours to assist internal engineering teams with diagnosing complex CI workflows, managing central infrastructure in Kubernetes, and ensuring tools are fully leveraged.
  • Investigate and resolve intricate systems or build issues during support rotations, building valuable relationships with other DRW development teams.
  • Improve service reliability, performance, and observability of firm-wide critical infrastructure and tooling.
  • Work in a hybrid infrastructure environment (cloud and on-prem) using infra-as-code patterns to reliably manage and scale services.
  • Educate users on tools, conduct end-user demonstrations, and maintain high-quality self-service documentation.

Requirements

  • Strong technical background.
  • Strong relationship building and communication skills.
  • Drive to positively influence all areas of the organization's software delivery life cycle (SDLC).
  • Stellar written communication skills.
  • Pragmatism, balancing present needs with future optimizations for sustainable solutions.
  • Problem-solving skills, comfortable handling tasks from low-level OS issues to architecting artifact storage solutions.
  • Excitement for Continuous Integration and Delivery.
  • Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, dedication to learning, and a collaborative spirit.
  • Demonstrated experience with building high-quality solutions and owning them throughout their entire lifecycle.
  • A growth mindset and a bias for action.
  • Previous experience building tools for measurably improving developer experience and productivity.

Skills

  • Debugging and triaging complex systems
  • Configuration management tooling (e.g., Terraform)
  • Managing highly available Linux systems (on-prem and cloud)
  • Supporting containerized applications (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, FluxCD, ArgoCD, Helm)
  • Providing direct support to internal engineers with customer empathy
  • Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java)

Location

  • London

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 3-5 years of development experience

About the Company

  • 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, operating 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 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.