Senior Software Engineer – Market Data Platform

Delinian; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401K retirement plan

Flexible work arrangements

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Learning resources

Job summary

Ned Davis Research (NDR) seeks a senior software engineer to work across Java services and SQL Server-backed workflows, handling file-based processing and vendor integrations. You will help modernize the platform, understand legacy systems, and improve data ingestion, validation, and serving for market data platforms.

The role emphasizes leadership across repositories, strong debugging and problem-solving, and a focus on reliable, scalable data ecosystems within the NDR Market Data environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience at senior level.
• Strong Java development background with production systems exposure.
• Experience with databases and file-based workflows.
• Familiarity with SQL Server or similar relational databases.
• Experience with backend data pipelines and integration platforms.
• Strong debugging, system design and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple repositories and shared libraries.
• Excellent communication and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead development across Java services, libraries, and applications.
• Drive improvements to data ingestion, validation, and serving workflows.
• Work with SQL Server schemas and operational databases.
• Integrate vendor feeds and normalize market/reference data.
• Debug difficult production issues across code, data, and infrastructure boundaries.
• Refactor legacy systems safely.
• Improve automated testing around parsing, calculations, and data correctness.
• Help modernize platform architecture and technical practices.
• Support market data ingestion and serving to client-facing processes.
• Document key systems and processes.

Skills

Java

SQL Server

Data pipelines

Production systems

Debugging

System design

Cross-repo collaboration

Communication

Ownership

Vendor integration

Tools

Refinitiv

Bloomberg

Haver

FactSet

MSCI

Job description

Ned Davis Research (NDR) seeks a senior software engineer to work across Java services and SQL Server-backed workflows, handling file-based processing and vendor integrations. You will help modernize the platform, understand legacy systems, and improve data ingestion, validation, and serving for market data platforms.

The role emphasizes leadership across repositories, strong debugging and problem-solving, and a focus on reliable, scalable data ecosystems within the NDR Market Data environment.