Head of Market Data Development and Engineering (Crypto)

Location: New York; hybrid/flexible working arrangements.

Base salary: $220,000–$250,000 USD annually, plus discretionary bonus and equity incentives.

Company

hirify.global provides digital asset infrastructure, trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, tokenization, and AI/HPC data center infrastructure.

What you will do

• Define and execute unified market data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges, decentralized venues, and traditional markets.
• Design scalable, low-latency architecture for tick-level, order book, reference, historical, and on-chain data.
• Lead a small development team while building a Market Data API, custom feed handlers, integrations with vendor platforms, Kdb+, and Databricks, and managing the internal market data messaging bus.
• Build relationships with exchanges, aggregators, node providers, and vendors; support negotiations, licensing, and exchange agreements.
• Oversee normalization, monitoring, alerting, ingestion, entitlement controls, audit trails, governance, and data quality across market data sources.
• Manage the global market data budget, optimize costs, partner with infrastructure teams on hybrid on-premises/cloud environments, and enable research, backtesting, and production trading.

Requirements

• 10+ years of custom development experience with real-time market data platforms within a trading firm, hedge fund, or financial institution.
• Knowledge of key market data vendors, exchanges, and licensing models.
• Strong understanding of trading workflows, asset classes including equities, futures, options, FX, and fixed income, and real-time, reference, and historical data.
• Experience with low-latency data systems, market data feeds, APIs, and streaming technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams and establishing market data onboarding, validation, and lifecycle management practices.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with on-chain data, blockchain nodes, and crypto data providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements and flexible paid time off.
• 3% 401(k) company contribution, company-paid health and protective benefits, and paid parental leave.
• Family planning benefits for US employees.
• Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry, with coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace.
• Daily snacks, weekly breakfasts and lunches, employee resource groups, and entrepreneurial colleagues.
• AI adoption is encouraged, including generative AI, automation platforms, and data copilots.