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$180,000 – $250,000
Listed on Geneva’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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