Senior Data Engineer (Python)

Location: Remote within the Charlotte Metro area excluding South Carolina, or the Austin Metro area; United States

Company

hirify.global develops research-driven financial and technical products and technology platforms supporting investment management and client financial outcomes.

What you will do

• Build and deliver investment data technology solutions for Research, Portfolio Management, Trading, Analytics, and Reporting.
• Design, develop, test, document, and support scalable application services and data platforms.
• Design and optimize data pipelines across ingestion, validation, quality control, integration, storage, management, and delivery.
• Build high-performance data-transfer tools, maintaining data consistency, refresh rates, caching, and established SLAs.
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, project managers, business clients, and IT management on solutions, estimates, work plans, and technology strategies.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, participate in code and design reviews, and troubleshoot production systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4–5 years of programming experience with open-source Python or equivalent, and 4–5 years of SQL experience.
• Proficiency building RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience applying SOLID principles and Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience with high-performance and highly available data applications, including performance optimization and tuning.
• Experience with automated acceptance testing and writing unit-tested, maintainable code.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity risks and ability to design and build highly secure applications.
• Experience working in dynamic, collaborative software implementation teams; knowledge of IT operations for always-available services.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and waterfall methodologies in software development and integration.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.
• NoSQL database implementation and optimization experience.
• Ability to work across multiple programming languages and platforms.
• Financial services industry knowledge or experience.
• Experience with Kafka, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Elastic Stack, RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker, Okta, OAuth2, or PlainID.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with modern technologies and research-driven financial and technical products.
• Collaborative environment emphasizing curiosity, systematic problem solving, feedback, engineering, and security mindsets.
• Comprehensive benefits supporting employees, families, and careers.
• Educational initiatives and programs focused on career development.
• Equal employment opportunity is provided in accordance with applicable law.