Data Engineering Manager
Geneva Trading is a global proprietary trading company that provides capital, technology, high-fidelity data, and professional support for trading teams across multiple asset classes, including digital assets.
About Geneva Trading
Founded in 1999, Geneva Trading operates as a technology-driven principal trading firm with expertise in OTC, algorithmic, discretionary, relative-value, and market-making strategies. Its listed asset classes include energy, metals, fixed income, environmental products, agriculture, equity indices, foreign exchange, and digital assets. The company maintains offices in Chicago, Dublin, and London.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and contribute production code for market-data pipelines, KDB+/Q platforms, data distribution, and supporting tools. You will review designs, debug production issues, set reliability standards, and work with trading and research users on platform needs.
Requirements
- Have at least 7 years of experience in data engineering, market-data infrastructure, or a related area
- Have at least 3 years of technical engineering leadership experience
- Demonstrate current hands-on production coding experience
- Have strong KDB+/Q, tick architecture, query tuning, and production HDB troubleshooting experience
- Demonstrate strong production Python experience
- Have experience building low-latency decoders for real exchange protocols
- Understand multicast, packet capture, sequencing, and gap detection
- Work comfortably in Linux with perf, strace, tcpdump, and numactl
- Own production issues directly
Responsibilities
- Own market-data pipelines from ingestion through normalization and near-real-time delivery
- Integrate exchange-feed capture and third-party vendor data
- Build replay, recovery, and gap-detection capabilities
- Design, maintain, and tune KDB+/Q platforms
- Define dependable data contracts and schemas
- Build validation, monitoring, replay, and analytics tools
- Write production code and review pull requests and technical designs
- Debug production issues and improve alerting and data-quality checks
- Lead engineers while remaining technically involved
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits program
- No direct on-call rotation
