Core Data Engineer
Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of the firm's most fundamental data products, including the Security Master, reconciled ETF compositions, high-resolution historical market data, and records of trades, orders, quotes and inquiries. You will build and monitor automated pipelines on the Data Platform, become an expert in these datasets, explore new sources, and collaborate with teams across the organization so systems are designed with data in mind.
Requirements
- Analytics or data engineering experience, ideally at a startup or scale-up through a growth phase
- Strong data modelling and data quality practice: tests, contracts, lineage, observability in production
- Strong proficiency in Python (ideally familiarity with another statically-typed language)
- Working proficiency with SQL, relational databases and version control systems
- Demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and familiarity with big data solutions
- Have owned something in production, not only built it
- Enjoy working directly with the people who use your data
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to balance stakeholder requirements with data quality, consistency and broad applicability
Responsibilities
- Craft datasets with quants that are aligned, adjusted, point-in-time correct, documented and reproducible
- Develop and own the end-to-end lifecycle of core data products
- Build and maintain data pipelines and quality checks
- Correct day-to-day operational issues and automate manual processing steps
- Design data quality checks and alerts that catch problems that matter
- Build shared foundations such as reference data, instrument identifiers, corporate actions and vendor feeds
- Keep critical pipelines running and support them across time zones
- Collaborate with stakeholders to maximize the value extracted from data
Benefits
- Annual discretionary variable remuneration
- Dedicated academy for learning and development
- Annual company trip, holiday parties, family and sports events
- Volunteer programs and charity support through the Flow Traders Foundation
- Global rotation opportunities
- Lounges, bars, gaming areas, lunches and coffee in offices
- Sports, healthy food and wellbeing programs
- Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
Hiring Process
Submit CV and cover letter; online HackerRank assessment; interview with a Recruiter; technical assessment and final interview with the team.
