Market Data Engineer

We are seeking highly motivated and talented people to join the Boerboel team. As a member of the team you will be working with passionate and curious colleagues who thrive on solving complex problems. Boerboel is an office-first firm. While we offer flexibility to our employees, remote work is not available at this time.

About Us

Boerboel Trading is an electronic trading firm, active across a wide range of asset classes and regions, with offices in NYC, Chicago, London, and Malta. We engage in rigorous quantitative analysis to deploy systematic trading strategies over multiple time horizons. Trading and research employees of the firm are graduates from a wide spectrum of quantitative disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, mathematics and physics. Our employees apply their scientific methodologies to the analysis of extensive financial data sets.

Summary

As aMarket Data Engineer, you will work closely with our research, development, and infrastructure teams to manage capture, normalization, and distribution of petabytes of historical market data from exchanges around the world.

Objectives

• Manage large scale, time sensitive market data capture and normalization pipelines
• Maintain and improve our internal formats formats and common downstream research data
• Collaborate with infrastructure to ensure reliability of packet capture process
• Implement robust data validation and monitoring of new sources
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, and timely resolution of issues
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining extremely large-scale ETL pipelines
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting, familiarity with C
• Knowledge of computer networking fundamentals
  
  

Preferred

• Previous experience with binary market data specifications (ITCH, MDP3, etc)
• Understanding of high performance filesystems and columnar storage formats
  
  

This position is eligible to be based in New York, NY or London, UK. In compliance with applicable U.S. pay transparency laws, the anticipated base range for this role is $100,000 - $200,000 annually in New York, NY. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package.

Eligible employees can participate in our benefits package which include health insurance, retirement savings plan, PTO, etc. Offerings may differ depending on location.