# Data Engineering Manager

Hiring organization: [Geneva](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/geneva)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/678fca2d-636c-44a1-9b20-e8cb2d70830e

Listed on Geneva's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Salary: 180000 – 250000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a small team building and operating market data platforms that serve trading systems, researchers, and increasingly AI-driven tools at a principal trading firm. This is a hands-on role requiring both people management and active coding, focusing on capturing, normalizing, and delivering market data with reliability and correctness as top priorities.

_Our summary, not Geneva's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Q, C++, CI/CD, Docker, Git, Linux, Python

## Required

- 7+ years data engineering or market data infrastructure experience
- Current hands-on production coding
- 3+ years leading engineers while staying technically involved
- Strong KDB+/Q including complex queries, tick architecture, and HDB troubleshooting
- Strong production Python for systems-level code
- Building low-latency decoders for exchange protocols
- Understanding of multicast, packet capture, sequencing, and gap detection
- Linux proficiency with perf, strace, tcpdump, numactl
- Own production issues directly

## Nice to have

- High-frequency trading, market making, or proprietary trading background
- C or C++ for performance-critical components
- Kernel-bypass or high-performance networking experience
- Streaming platforms for real-time data pipelines
- Binary market data encoding standards knowledge
- Open-source contributions to data, market data, or quantitative research tools

Apply on Geneva's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/genevatrading/jobs/5130534007