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Senior Software Engineer – Pricing and Derived Data

A senior engineer on the team that builds a data platform delivering live and end-of-day prices across the firm. Clients range from low-latency trading systems to researchers using historical data.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Design a platform serving consistent prices via warehouse, stream and API
Build snapshot-then-live data delivery without gaps or duplicates
Scale ingestion pipelines for high event rates
Decide which components stay in Elixir and which use other tools
Operate a time-sensitive data product in production

What they ask for

Required

Building data products and leading projects from design to production
Event streaming and change data capture
Open table formats and batch/stream processing
Kafka, Spark, Flink, ClickHouse or similar
Architectural decision-making
Collaboration and communication

Preferred

Elixir
Finance domain knowledge

Education: No degree level stated
Experience: Considerable experience building data products; led significant projects
Languages and tools: Elixir
Kafka
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Spark
Flink
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Build a small streaming pipeline with Kafka that serves both snapshots and live updates
Learn columnar stores such as ClickHouse
Study consistency and time-correctness in market data
Learn how prices are built from exchange feeds

What to study

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