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What they do

DV Trading is a proprietary trading firm. It trades with its own capital and provides liquidity to markets around the world, in futures, fixed income, equities, options, foreign exchange, and crypto. The DV Group also includes DV Commodities, DV Securities, DV Equities, and DV Investment Management. It has more than 600 people. DV was founded in 2006.

What they value

• Technology, teamwork, and merit: DV says these let its teams do their best work.
• Never being satisfied with past success, and challenging the norms.
• Hiring to learn, advance, and succeed together.

Where they hire

Most roles are in New York, Chicago, London, and Hong Kong. Others are in Singapore, Dubai, and Toronto. Singapore has a systematic trading desk with trader, researcher, and portfolio manager roles. Four roles are remote, including a portfolio manager and a night-shift support engineer. One Chicago posting describes a fully in-office environment. No posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

Of the 73 roles, 25 are internships or graduate roles for 2027. DV Equities has the most roles, 20, then Trading with 18, and DV Commodities and Technology with 14 each.

• Trading: traders, portfolio managers, and relative value traders, who trade price gaps between linked assets, in Chicago, New York, London, Singapore, and Toronto, who run and grow their own strategies.
• DV Equities in Hong Kong: quantitative researchers, traders, and software developers in the Asia-Pacific equities market-making business.
• DV Commodities: traders and C++ and quantitative software engineers in New York and London. Engineers build a new fast, low-latency electronic trading platform.
• Technology: DevOps, systems, risk, and back office developers, mostly in Chicago, and summer interns in AI, DevOps, databases, and security.

Most US postings give a pay range. A C++ software engineer in New York earns $180,000 to $250,000. Most US summer interns are paid $40 to $50 an hour.

What they look for

Most roles ask for Python. Many technical roles ask for C++, SQL, or Linux. Many trading and research roles ask for a strong base in math, probability, and statistics, and an interest in markets. Many ask you to stay calm and communicate clearly under pressure.

Graduate and intern roles ask for a degree in a quantitative field such as math, statistics, or computer science. Experienced trader and portfolio manager roles ask for two to five years at a trading firm or bank and a profitable track record. Senior C++ roles ask for seven or more years of modern C++. A few roles ask you to use AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.