Core Data Engineer
Flow Traders20 days ago
Base Salary
$165k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate underspecified quantitative research questions into aligned, adjusted, point-in-time-correct, documented, and reproducible datasets.
- Develop and own the end-to-end lifecycle of core data products, including pipelines, quality checks, operational support, and automation.
- Design data-quality checks and alerts that identify issues affecting trading strategies while minimizing noise.
- Build shared foundations for reference data, instrument identifiers, corporate actions, and vendor feeds.
- Support critical pipelines across multiple regions and continuously operating digital-asset markets.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve data-related workflows and data usage.
Requirements
- Experience in analytics or data engineering, preferably in a startup or scale-up growth environment.
- Strong data modeling and data-quality practices, including tests, contracts, lineage, and production observability.
- Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency with SQL, relational databases, and version control systems.
- Demonstrated experience with large datasets and familiarity with big-data solutions.
- Previous ownership of production systems or data products.
- Ability to work directly with data users and balance stakeholder requirements with quality, consistency, and broad applicability.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Financial data experience, including prices, market data, transactions, or instruments, is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with point-in-time data, look-ahead bias, and survivorship bias is preferred.
- Experience with modern cloud data stacks, Airflow, Kafka, GCP, Polars, Pandas, Spark, Apache Beam, or Apache NiFi is preferred.
- Experience in trading, systematic funds, brokerages, crypto exchanges, or market-data companies is preferred.
- On-call or incident-response experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $165,000 to $210,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.
- All employees are eligible to share in the company’s success through annual discretionary variable remuneration based on company, group, and individual performance and contribution.
- The role supports markets across multiple regions and digital-asset markets that operate continuously, with team coverage across time zones.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache BeamApache KafkaApache SparkDatabricksdbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformPandasPythonSQL
Categories
Data Engineering
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders builds electronic trading technology and acts as a principal liquidity provider in exchange-traded products, derivatives, fixed income, and digital assets across global markets. Its revenues come from market making and proprietary trading, using in-house software to quote and manage risk on- and off-exchange for institutional counterparties. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Flow Traders is publicly listed on Euronext Amsterdam and operates across multiple financial centers.