Senior Market Data Engineer (C)

TL;DR

Senior Market Data Engineer (C): Building and optimizing high-frequency market data pipelines for global exchanges with an accent on low-level raw data parsing and order book reconstruction. Focus on implementing large-scale historical MBO data projects and ensuring latency-sensitive data alignment across multiple markets.

Location: Fully Onsite in either Hong Kong or Singapore

Salary: £2,000,000 - £5,000,000

Company

hirify.global is a professional search firm specializing in high-frequency trading and financial technology recruitment.

What you will do

• Mentor junior engineers and lead talent pipeline development.
• Cultivate and institutionalize team-level sanity check protocols and high-frequency data engineering best practices.
• Develop standardized delivery whitepapers for data engineering processes.
• Implement full-lifecycle, large-scale historical MBO data projects across multiple global markets.
• Perform native PCAP processing and low-level raw data parsing using C.
• Conduct vendor selection and quality differentiation for international market data providers.

Requirements

• Must be based in or able to work onsite in Hong Kong or Singapore.
• 5+ years of experience in global exchange market data/tick data engineering.
• High proficiency in C with exceptional capabilities in PCAP processing and raw data parsing.
• Hands-on mastery of Order Book Reconstruction, Snapshot Recovery, and latency-sensitive data alignment.
• Extensive experience with direct exchange feeds and vendors such as MayStreet, Pico, Databento, or Refinitiv.
• Profound understanding of global derivatives and futures market data architectures.