Senior Market Data Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; Remote; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading proprietary algorithmic trading firm is seeking a Senior Market Data Engineer to design and maintain systems for managing historical market data. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary and the chance to work with a team that values technical excellence and innovative solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Fully remote position

Innovative working environment

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with financial instruments and markets.
• Strong programming skills in Python, familiarity with Go or Rust is a plus.
• Experience with ETL processes for large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-performance data storage systems for market data.
• Build tools for research teams to access historical data.
• Develop scalable solutions ensuring regulatory compliance.

Skills

Data validation

Data integrity

Problem-solving

Programming in Python

ETL processes

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Senior Market Data Engineer - Algorithmic Trading - Fully Remote

A proprietary algorithmic trading firm who manage the entire trading cycle from software development to strategy creation and algorithm coding are on the lookout for a Senior Market Data Engineer to join their team.

What will the role be doing?

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance data storage systems for capturing and managing large volumes of historical market data from multiple exchanges, brokers, and vendors with robust validation, cleansing, and normalisation processes
• Build internal tools and integrations that provide research teams with easy access to historical data while collaborating with quantitative researchers and traders to optimise data retrieval systems for backtesting and strategy development
• Develop scalable, cost-efficient solutions with sophisticated versioning and reconciliation capabilities that ensure regulatory compliance, data integrity, and efficient querying for growing data volumes

What are we looking for:

• Commercial experience with financial instruments and markets (equities, futures, options, forex) and understanding of historical data usage in algorithmic trading
• Familiarity with market data formats (MDP, ITCH, FIX, SWIFT, proprietary exchange APIs) and market data providers
• Strong programming skills in Python (Go/Rust is a nice to have)
• Experience with ETL processes and data pipeline architecture for cleaning, normalising, and validating large datasets
• Commercial experience building and maintaining large-scale time series or historical market data systems in financial services
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail for ensuring data quality and reliability

What's in it for me:

• Competitive salary of $100,000-$120,000
• Fully remote position - work from anywhere
• Be part of an innovative proprietary trading firm that values technical excellence