Data Engineer

FIRM OVERVIEW

Massar Capital Management is an award-winning hedge fund with superior performance that prides itself on its dynamic, entrepreneurial culture. We trade across global markets including commodities, foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, and derivatives. Our investment philosophy combines fundamental understanding of individual assets with a quantitative and data driven process. We build proprietary technology and develop statistical methods to leverage public and in-house data sets. Our team members combine strong technical skills with a passion for problem solving and an intellectual curiosity about financial markets.

The data team delivers infrastructure and models to deploy valuable data across the business. Working closely with our researchers and traders, we build resilient and easily maintainable data models and pipelines. Additionally, our developers support live trading by maintaining pipeline operations and enhance our data platform by developing new frameworks, libraries, and services, thereby enhancing team efficiency, throughput, and code quality.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of investment research teams' data needs and provide the right solution to them
• Develop, test, and optimize Python data applications, frameworks, and services
• Collaborate with technologists and researchers to align data applications and platforms with evolving business needs
• Write and review technical documentation, including requirements for researchers and proposals for platform enhancements, as well as production support guidelines
• Frequently take the lead on production support operations

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s in a technology related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)
• 3+ years’ experience with Python (inc. Numpy & Pandas) as well as significant experience with SQL, as a software developer, quantitative developer or data engineer
• Experience developing and shipping production quality data pipelines
• Strong design, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with any of the following systems/tools is a plus: Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, any RDBs, any columnar database technology, Redis, gRPC, Protobuf

COMPENSATION

The all-inclusive salary for this position is between EUR 75,000 and EUR 95,000 depending on your specific qualifications