Senior Software Engineer | Data Systems | Quant Trading

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Berkeley, IL, United States
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Big Data C++ (Programming Language) Data Infrastructure Data Systems Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Software Architecture Standard Sql Software Engineering Google Cloud
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High Performance Computing Apache Spark Data Pipelines

Job description

We’re partnering with a renowned quantitative trading firm looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to build the large-scale data infrastructure powering its research and trading teams.

This is a software engineering-focused data role, working on the core datasets and pipelines used by Quant Researchers and Traders across the business.

What you’ll work on:

  • Building and operating large-scale data pipelines processing hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of data
  • Owning the quality, reliability, and performance of critical source data
  • Designing scalable systems to deliver data efficiently to research and trading teams
  • Optimizing pipelines to improve latency while reducing compute and storage requirements
  • Migrating existing workloads onto modern data platforms and hardware
  • Building tooling to identify and resolve data-quality issues before they impact downstream users

Requirements

  • Strong experience building large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems
  • Excellent Python and SQL skills with strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP and/or HPC environments
  • Strong system design and software architecture experience
  • Experience with market data, C++, Iceberg/Delta, Spark, Trino or DuckDB is a plus

This is a high-impact opportunity to own foundational data infrastructure within a highly technical trading environment, working directly with the researchers and traders consuming what you build.

If you’re a strong software engineer who enjoys solving difficult data problems at serious scale, I’d be happy to share more.

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