Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Distributed Market Data Systems

A leading global quantitative investment firm is seeking a Software Engineer to join a newly established team building a next-generation market data platform.

This is a rare opportunity to work on a greenfield project developing globally distributed, high-performance systems that support real-time data processing and quantitative research at scale.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and building cloud-native platforms for processing and distributing real-time data
• Developing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
• Architecting scalable infrastructure capable of handling large volumes of streaming data
• Collaborating closely with researchers, data scientists, and engineers across the business
• Contributing to the technical direction of a brand-new platform from the ground up

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience with distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Background building real-time, event-driven, or streaming data platforms
• Strong systems design skills
• Experience writing high-performance, production-grade code
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have

• Kafka or similar streaming technologies
• Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
• Python, Java, Scala, C++, or Rust
• Modern data technologies such as Arrow, Polars, Flight/gRPC
• Market data or financial systems experience
• SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience

Why Apply?

• Greenfield engineering environment
• Significant ownership and technical influence
• Complex distributed systems challenges at scale
• Work alongside world-class researchers and engineers
• Top-of-market compensation package

Candidates from technology companies, fintechs, data infrastructure teams, and high-scale distributed systems environments are encouraged to apply.