Trexquant
Senior Data Engineer (USA)
$150K–$200K
Stamford, Connecticut +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- Stamford, Connecticut
New York, New York - Experience
- 5+ years of data engineering experience in a systematic trading, quantitative research, hedge fund, or financial technology environment.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure that turns financial and alternative vendor feeds into reliable, research-ready datasets for quantitative research and simulation.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain ingestion pipelines for market, reference, tick, and alternative data.
- Own dataset normalization, validation, storage, and lifecycle management; build monitoring and operational tooling.
- Optimize Python- and SQL-based workflows and collaborate with researchers and engineering teams to onboard datasets and improve data quality.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of data engineering experience in systematic trading, quantitative research, a hedge fund, or financial technology.
- Python and SQL experience building large-scale data ingestion and ETL pipelines.
- Strong Linux experience and deep knowledge of financial data across multiple asset classes, including market, tick, reference, and vendor feeds.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Parquet, Arrow, object storage, and columnar databases.
Pay
$150,000–$200,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, Linux, Parquet, Arrow
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