Senior Data Engineer (Prop Trading)

TL;DR

Senior Data Engineer (Prop Trading): Design and maintain real-time and historical trading and market data infrastructure with an accent on low-latency distributed pipelines and time-series data collection. Focus on automating monitoring, data quality checks, and building tools/APIs for traders and developers to ensure 24/7 reliability under high volume.

Fully remote (UK or Europe only)

£100,000 - £150,000

Company

A leading prop trading firm operating globally with connectivity to dozens of exchanges, executing millions of trades daily.

What you will do

• Build and maintain low-latency distributed data pipelines
• Develop and run real-time time-series data collectors
• Automate monitoring and data quality checks
• Create tools and APIs for data access
• Collaborate with traders and developers on data needs
• Ensure 24/7 pipeline reliability and observability

Requirements

• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience with trading/market data in production
• Proven work on real-time, high-volume pipelines
• Familiar with distributed SQL/NoSQL

Nice to have

• Clickhouse and S3/data lakes
• C++ on Linux
• Terraform or similar IaC
• Network protocols and exchange data

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote role (UK or Europe only)
• Flat structure, strong engineering culture
• Competitive base + performance-linked bonus
• Flexible working hours
• Biannual off-sites to meet the global team in person