Senior Market Data Platform Engineer – HFT / Quant Trading
Hytech
AI assistant
Job Description
We are looking for a senior Market Data Platform Engineer to build and optimize high-performance data infrastructure supporting quantitative research, trading, and execution. This role sits close to the trading business and requires a strong understanding of how market data is consumed—not just how databases are built.
We are particularly interested in candidates from buy-side quantitative trading, proprietary trading, HFT, or systematic investment firms, rather than traditional banking environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and optimize market data platforms and databases supporting quantitative research, trading, and execution.
- Build and maintain pipelines for real-time/live market data, including tick, order book, trade, reference, and other trading-related datasets.
- Own data ingestion, cleansing, normalization, validation, storage and distribution to ensure high-quality and reliable datasets.
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