Pricing & Derived Data - Senior Software Engineer

Location: Chicago, United States

Annual base salary: $175,000–$250,000, plus an annual discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm using technology and its own capital to operate across global financial markets and traditional and non-traditional asset classes.

What you will do

• Build and extend a data platform providing intra-day and end-of-day prices across the firm.
• Design systems for pricing millions of instruments across multiple asset classes and exchanges in near-real-time.
• Support clients ranging from low-latency trading systems to researchers using large historical datasets.
• Design ingestion, storage, and distribution for high-volume and/or low-latency data processing.
• Enable consistent prices across warehouses, live streams, and gRPC APIs, including gap-free transitions from snapshots to live updates.
• Make architectural and technology choices across Elixir and other technologies.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience as a strong generalist building data products.
• Significant experience leading projects from design through production operation, including architectural decisions.
• Ability to explain technology trade-offs and why specific choices were or were not appropriate.
• Experience or strong understanding of relevant areas such as event streaming, change data capture, open table formats, and stream and batch processing.
• Understanding of the architectural requirements and suitable use cases for technologies such as Kafka, Delta Lake, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Spark, and Flink.
• Experience designing high-volume or low-latency data processing systems, including ingestion, storage, and distribution.
• Experience scaling ingestion pipelines across single or multiple nodes, including workloads handling thousands or tens of thousands of events per second.
• Experience operating and supporting data products with time- and correctness-sensitive delivery requirements.
• Ability to independently drive projects to completion, collaborate effectively, learn, adapt, and communicate clearly.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with Elixir.
• Prior experience in the financial domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous environment with high-level requirements and freedom to pursue business solutions.
• Culture emphasizing humility, respect, curiosity, integrity, innovation, and challenging consensus.
• Development practices include rapid deployment, feedback, automated testing, and cohesive, transparent, lightly coupled service architectures.
• Employee benefits include medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k with discretionary employer match, disability and life insurance, HSA, and FSA.