Staff Software Engineer, Market Data - Remote

Jobgether; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Competitive equity package

Five weeks annual leave

Private healthcare

Home office stipend

Annual travel allowance

Job summary

Jobgether's partner company in Portugal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Market Data to design and build a next-generation data platform. You will own backend services, real-time feeds, and historical datasets for institutional customers, operating across distributed systems and AI-assisted tooling.

In a remote-first, international team, you will mentor engineers, guide architectural choices, advise on data models and streaming infrastructure, and ensure reliability, performance, and data

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building distributed backend systems with high reliability and performance.
• Strong real-time streaming knowledge including state management, backpressure, and recovery.
• Deep understanding of data correctness, timestamps, and schema evolution across services.
• Proficiency in Rust or Go and solid CS fundamentals.
• End-to-end ownership of software systems from design to production and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate distributed backend systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering market data.
• Build streaming infrastructure handling event ordering, timestamps, and data replay.
• Develop reliable data feeds and APIs with defined delivery guarantees and scalable performance.
• Collaborate with teams to define data models and integrate new data sources.
• Establish and improve SLIs/SLOs, monitor latency and data quality across the platform.
• Lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

Rust

Go

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Mentoring

AI-assisted development tools

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Jobgether's partner company in Portugal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Market Data to design and build a next-generation data platform. You will own backend services, real-time feeds, and historical datasets for institutional customers, operating across distributed systems and AI-assisted tooling.

In a remote-first, international team, you will mentor engineers, guide architectural choices, advise on data models and streaming infrastructure, and ensure reliability, performance, and data