Data Engineer / SWE - Hedge Fund - Data Platform - NY - 225k+ TC

You’ll work directly alongside the person leading this rebuild as their first engineering hire on the data side, effectively a left-hand engineer helping build the function from scratch rather than joining an established team. This is a greenfield opportunity: expect to have real input into architecture and tooling decisions rather than executing a pre-defined backlog. You’ll need to be comfortable operating with a lot of autonomy and thinking out loud through problems rather than just picking up tickets.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Help design and build a new data function from the ground up, working closely with the team lead
• Own technical decisions around data infrastructure, tooling, and architecture as the function scales
• Be a genuine thought partner, someone the lead can bounce ideas off of, not just execute assigned tasks
• Operate with significant autonomy in a small, high-trust team

• 2-7 years of software/data engineering experience
• Strong Python, ideally applied to building ETL pipelines, onboarding and integrating vendor data feeds, and building internal tooling/APIs that other teams rely on, not just scripting one-off analysis
• Strong SQL (comfortable well beyond basic joins and indexing)
• Genuinely autonomous and opinionated, comfortable pushing back and thinking through problems out loud rather than just taking direction

We’re partnering with an established systematic hedge fund in New York, running a lean, high-performing team relative to its AUM. The firm is rebuilding its data function from the ground up and looking for an early, foundational hire to help shape it.