Market Data Engineer (C#)

Location: New York, hybrid with three days of in-office collaboration and two remote days per week

Salary: $175,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a SaaS capital markets platform services company providing trading, data, analytics, transaction cost analysis, compliance, clearing, and infrastructure solutions across multiple asset classes.

What you will do

• Integrate and support market data feeds from ICE, Refinitiv, S&P, and other providers, including message formats, identifiers, entitlements, and configuration.
• Develop and maintain C# feed handlers and real-time processing systems for trades, quotes, Level 1 data, and supported Level 2 market depth.
• Support equities, futures, options, FX, and fixed income reference, pricing, historical, and intraday data.
• Develop SQL Server and Snowflake ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and analytical workflows.
• Troubleshoot interruptions, data gaps, processing bottlenecks, and production issues while improving reliability, throughput, and recovery.
• Automate validation and operational tasks with Python, modernize workflows using AWS, and collaborate with TCA engineers, product teams, and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of relevant professional experience in software engineering and financial market data systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of equities, futures, options, FX, and fixed income market data, including identifiers, symbology, mappings, and pricing.
• Hands-on C# development building or maintaining feed handlers, market data applications, or real-time data processing systems.
• Strong SQL development and Microsoft SQL Server experience, including complex queries, stored procedures, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on Snowflake and AWS Cloud experience.
• Practical experience integrating external market data feeds, preferably ICE, Refinitiv/LSEG, or comparable vendors.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot production issues independently, own deliverables, and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to independently validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability when using AI-assisted development tools.

Nice to have

• Vendor APIs, feed protocols, entitlement management, and vendor-specific message formats.
• High-volume or tick data, trade and quote normalization, and market data quality controls.
• Snowflake, AWS/S3, Apache Airflow or similar orchestration, and large-scale data processing.
• Trade Cost Analysis, trading analytics, financial data platforms, data governance, and reconciliation.
• Git, CI/CD, Liquibase, automated deployment, or Snowflake/AWS certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment with a hybrid work model balancing office collaboration and remote work.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and HSA accounts, 401(k), and pre-tax transit and parking benefits.
• 22 paid time-off days annually with rollover, paid holidays, parental leave, volunteering time, and milestone PTO additions.
• Professional development days, equipment budget, backup child and pet care, tutoring services, and anniversary bonuses.
• Cell-phone, gym, wellness, healthcare-premium, and meal-delivery subsidies.