Financial Data Engineer, AI/LLM

Binance; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work arrangement

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Binance is seeking a senior data engineer to build and own the core data foundation for stock and financial market data. You will handle discovery, ingestion, validation, and real-time processing across global markets, enabling reliable data for trading products and AI initiatives.

Join a remote-first, international team with opportunities for impact across a global platform. The role emphasizes data quality, scalable architectures, and collaboration with product, legal, and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data development, big data, or data platforms.
• Proficient in SQL and Flink with large-scale real-time data processing experience.
• Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python; familiar with distributed storage/analytics technologies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct data discovery, ingestion, integration, and governance for financial market datasets, bringing source data to production-ready pipelines.
• Design scalable data models and integration frameworks across multi-market data.
• Build batch-stream pipelines centered on Flink to optimize latency, throughput, and cost for trading-related data.
• Establish data quality, SLAs, monitoring, and automated reconciliation and backfill capabilities.
• Evaluate data sources (vendors, exchanges, APIs) for coverage and stability with cross-team collaboration.
• Define data semantics and contracts with trading product and AI teams to ensure consistent stock data usage.

Skills

SQL

Flink

Java

Python

Scala

Kafka

Spark

ClickHouse

Doris

HBase

Elasticsearch

Education

Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Spark

ClickHouse

Doris

HBase

Elasticsearch

Job description

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, and more. Our mission is to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world.

About Binance

Binance is the global leading blockchain ecosystem, operating the world's largest digital asset trading platform by volume, serving over 300 million users across 100+ countries and regions. We are committed to building a more open financial ecosystem and improving global access to financial services.

Binance is continuously building stock and related financial market products for global users. The relevant data will serve user-facing stock products and Binance AI business scenarios. We are seeking professionals with stock market experience to jointly build reliable, scalable data and financial AI capabilities.

Role Overview

You will participate in building the core data foundation for Binance's stock and related financial market businesses, responsible for the full pipeline from data source discovery, evaluation, ingestion, and integration to unified modeling, real-time processing, quality governance, and data services. Beyond completing defined integrations, we expect you to leverage industry expertise to continuously identify better data sources and technical solutions, enabling new markets, products, and data to serve trading products and AI quickly and reliably.

Working at Binance

• Be a part of the world's leading blockchain ecosystem that continues to grow and offers excellent career development opportunities
• Work alongside diverse, world-class talent in an environment where learning and growth opportunities are endless
• Tackle fast-paced, challenging and unique projects
• Work in a truly global organization, with international teams and a flat organizational structure
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible working hours, remote-first, and casual work attire

Learn more about how Binancians embody the organization's core values, creating a unified culture that enables collaboration, excellence, and growth.

Binance is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having a diverse workforce is fundamental to our success.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research, technical evaluation, ingestion, integration, cleansing, standardization, computation, storage, and servicing of financial market data, covering securities master data, real-time and historical market data, fundamentals, corporate actions, indices, and business-required product and risk data; responsible for source ingestion, raw retention, and stable delivery to knowledge engineering pipelines for content-type data such as announcements, news, and research reports.
• Design scalable unified data models and integration frameworks, handling different markets’ trading calendars, time zones, currencies, security identifiers, listing relationships, lifecycles, and data corrections, supporting rapid onboarding of new markets and sources.
• Build batch-stream unified data pipelines centered on Flink, continuously optimizing latency, throughput, query performance, stability, and cost, while supporting consumer trading products, research analysis, and AI scenarios.
• Establish data quality and service level frameworks, taking responsibility for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and traceability; build automated reconciliation, anomaly detection, monitoring and alerting, raw data replay, backfill, and fault recovery capabilities.
• Evaluate different sources (vendors, exchanges, APIs, file feeds, compliance collection) for coverage, quality, stability, revision mechanisms, and technical fit; collaborate with product, procurement, legal, and compliance teams to clarify usage, display, derivative, retention, and redistribution boundaries; drive rational primary/backup source strategies and alternatives.
• Define data semantics, metric definitions, and service contracts jointly with trading product, data platform, AI engineering, and algorithm teams, ensuring consistent and reliable usage of the same stock facts across different products.
• Drive data engineering efficiency and technical quality improvements, including metadata, data lineage, automated testing, CI/CD, task orchestration, capacity governance, and AI-assisted development.

Requirements

• Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field; 5+ years of experience in data development, big data, or data platforms.
• Familiar with stock markets and the investor research and decision-making workflow; understand trading mechanisms, market data, fundamentals and financial reports, corporate actions, valuation, and major market events; able to explain the complete pipeline of at least one type of financial data from source to user-facing product and key quality risks.
• Proficient in SQL and Flink, with experience in large-scale real-time data processing, performance tuning, stability governance, and production issue troubleshooting.
• Proficient in at least one of Java, Scala, or Python; familiar with Kafka, Spark, and ClickHouse, Doris, HBase, Elasticsearch or other distributed storage and analytics technologies.
• Familiar with data modeling, task scheduling, metadata, data lineage, data governance, and service levels; able to independently resolve cross-system data consistency issues.
• High standards for data quality; able to design reproducible reconciliation, anomaly detection, backfill, and degradation strategies — not just completing data development tasks.
• Experience with data source selection or production ingestion; able to articulate trade-offs between build vs. buy, multi-source verification, vendor dependency, and alternative solutions.
• Strong business understanding and cross-team collaboration skills; able to translate trading, risk, research, or AI problems into clear data models and data contracts.

Bonus

• Experience with stock data at brokerages, market data services, financial data, wealth management, or fintech platforms.
• Familiarity with US stock market structure, trading calendars, pre/post-market sessions, corporate actions, and adjustment rules; experience with other stock markets also a plus.
• Data experience with stock-related derivatives, ETFs, indices, or tokenized products.
• Experience building low-latency market data pipelines, securities master data platforms, multi-market data models, quantitative research platforms, or large-scale backtesting data systems.
• Experience with data anomaly detection, knowledge graphs, financial entity alignment, or building high-quality financial datasets for LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Why Binance

• Shape the future of finance
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure
• Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative enviornment with autonomy
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning
• Competitive salary and company benefits
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)

Binance is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having a diverse workforce is fundamental to our success.

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