Market Data Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Market Data Engineer (Fintech): Designing and maintaining a petabyte-scale market data lakehouse infrastructure with an accent on high-performance ingestion, order-book reconstruction, and storage optimization. Focus on building robust pipelines using Apache Iceberg, Spark, and Rust to support real-time trading and quantitative research.

Location: Remote (Global)

Salary: $7,000–$8,000/month

Company

A technology-driven organization operating in the financial markets sector, managing the full trading cycle from strategy development to high-frequency execution.

What you will do

• Design and maintain the Market Data Platform, managing the full path from raw exchange feeds to research-ready data.
• Decode and normalize raw exchange feeds (pcap, multicast UDP, ITCH, FIX) into a unified canonical model.
• Own the Apache Iceberg-over-S3 lakehouse, managing partitioning, schema evolution, and storage cost optimization.
• Develop shared access services and producer SDKs in Python and Rust for internal data consumption.
• Implement reliability and observability frameworks, including SLAs/SLOs and data-quality dashboards on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with Quant Research and DevOps teams to translate requirements into scalable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production-grade data systems and lakehouses from scratch.
• Expert-level Python (Polars/PySpark) and strong proficiency in SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi.
• Solid fundamentals in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and AWS S3.
• Experience with market data protocols (ITCH, FIX, UDP) and order-book reconstruction is a strong plus.
• English fluency for documentation and international collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust for high-performance capture and decoding.
• Familiarity with market data vendors like OneTick, Refinitiv, Bloomberg, or ICE.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps (ArgoCD).

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from anywhere in the world with a flexible schedule.
• Modern tech stack with no legacy systems or bureaucracy.
• Compensation for health insurance, sports, and professional development.
• Collaborative, results-driven culture in a globally distributed team.