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Software Engineer – Digital Assets Trading
A data and platform engineering role in the digital assets technology group of a multi-manager hedge fund. It builds the data pipelines and trading-support platforms that feed crypto strategies.
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.
- Evaluate crypto data vendors and wire their feeds into the firm's platforms
- Turn messy on-chain and unstructured data into clean, resilient datasets
- Extend order management, reconciliation and risk tooling for digital assets
- Add monitoring and quality checks so 24/7 data feeds stay reliable
- Answer ad hoc data questions for the business
What they ask for
Required
- Python for reusable data code
- Data pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow)
- AWS deployment
- Large structured and unstructured datasets
- Financial instruments knowledge
- Crypto and blockchain data familiarity
- Applied AI/ML in the software lifecycle
Preferred
- Equities, fixed income or commodities exposure
- Education
- Bachelor's in computer science or a related field
- Experience
- 3+ years of Python, 2+ years running AWS data environments
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- crypto
How to prepare
- Build an Airflow pipeline that ingests exchange and on-chain data into a warehouse with quality checks
- Learn how crypto spot, perpetual and custody data differ and where they come from
- Practise reconciling positions and trades between two sources
- Add monitoring and alerting to a small always-on data job
What to study
- Python and Data Primer
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
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