Greenfield Quant Platform Architect

Meraki Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Meraki Talent is seeking a Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer to architect and build a greenfield quantitative technology platform for a multi-asset brokerage. You will own the architecture, standards, and foundational tech powering market data, real-time analytics, pricing, trading and risk management as the platform scales globally.

You'll lead design decisions from day one, shaping the long-term technology strategy and establishing a modern engineering culture with strong CI/CD and

Qualifications

• Production-grade distributed systems experience.
• Large-scale data architecture and real-time processing.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming tech.
• Excellent SQL and data engineering capabilities.
• Proficiency in C++, Java, or Rust or related high-performance languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the architecture for a large-scale quantitative technology platform.
• Build high-performance data infrastructure for historical and real-time market data.
• Develop scalable streaming data pipelines and event-driven systems.
• Architect real-time analytics capabilities used across research, trading and risk.
• Create robust data quality, validation and governance frameworks.
• Build reusable APIs, libraries and shared services for quantitative teams.
• Define engineering standards, CI/CD practices, testing frameworks and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders and product leaders to translate requirements into scalable tech.
• Influence the long-term evolution of the firm's quantitative and trading technology stack.

Skills

Distributed systems

Real-time data processing

Event-driven architectures

SQL / Data engineering

High-performance languages

Tools

Kafka

Spark

PostgreSQL

Job description

Meraki Talent is seeking a Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer to architect and build a greenfield quantitative technology platform for a multi-asset brokerage. You will own the architecture, standards, and foundational tech powering market data, real-time analytics, pricing, trading and risk management as the platform scales globally.

You'll lead design decisions from day one, shaping the long-term technology strategy and establishing a modern engineering culture with strong CI/CD and