Equities Data Engineer
DRW
New York, NY
Finance / Banking / Insurance, Engineering, Information Technology
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
We are seeking an Equities Data Engineer to join the MASS (Multi-asset Systematic Strategies) trading team. In this role, you will be responsible for onboarding, transforming, and managing diverse financial datasets. You will collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and quantitative developers to analyze equity and futures data, identify alphas, and develop global delta-one trading strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with traders, researchers, and analysts to deliver well-structured data that powers trading strategies, predictive models, and AI/ML applications.
- Build, automate, and maintain resilient pipelines for cleaning, validating, and transforming batch and streaming data that feed into medallion architectures.
- Develop observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to provide complete visibility into pipeline reliability and performance.
- Optimize tiered data storage and elastic processing across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments to ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions.
- Enforce data governance, controls, and security standards to preserve confidentiality and operational integrity.
- Implement data quality frameworks (validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection) to detect gaps, staleness, and corporate action/market data inconsistencies.
- Maintain point-in-time correctness across datasets used for research and live trading; ensure reproducibility of signals and backtests.
- Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams to productionize pipelines, improve runtime efficiency, and meet latency and availability requirements.
- Over five years of demonstrated experience designing ingestion pipelines.
- Familiarity with equities, equity indices, futures, or delta one trading data preferred.
- Experience processing real-time and batch financial market data.
- Proven ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment and handle trading environment demands.
- Strong understanding of financial point-in-time and time-series data and analysis.
- Proven expertise in developing data quality control processes to detect gaps or inaccuracies.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for data pipelines.
- Competent in both on-premise Linux systems and cloud platforms.
- Proficient in automated testing, CI/CD practices, and MLOps.
- Well-versed in compressed and optimized file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg.
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About the company
Company website•Capital Markets, IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services
At DRW, we identify and capture trading and investment opportunities globally. What sets us apart is our diversified approach—trading across many asset classes and instruments, in markets around the world, with horizons from seconds to years. We succeed by leveraging technology, research and risk management.
We offer the best of both worlds: the opportunity and spirit of a startup and the benefits and stability of an established, experienced firm. Our employees work hard to solve interesting problems, and their results are rewarded. We value continuous learning—from our outcomes, from the environment and from each other. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity, and constant collaboration, with some of the smartest, most passionate people you’ll meet.
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Chez DRW, nous identifions et saisissons les opportunités de négociation et d'investissement au niveau mondial. Ce qui nous différencie, c'est notre approche diversifiée : nous négocions sur de nombreuses classes d'actifs et d'instruments, sur des marchés du monde entier, avec des horizons allant de quelques secondes à plusieurs années. Nous réussissons en nous appuyant sur la technologie, la recherche et la gestion des risques. Nous offrons le meilleur des deux mondes: les opportunités et l'ésprit d’une entreprise en démarrage, et les avantages et la stabilité d'une entreprise établie et expérimentée. Nos employés travaillent dur pour résoudre des problèmes intéressants et leurs résultats sont récompensés. Nous valorisons l'apprentissage continu – de nos résultats, de l’environnement et de chacun de nous. C’est un lieu où les attentes sont élevées, la curiosité est profonde et la collaboration est constante, et où l’on retrouve quelques-uns des individus les plus intelligents et les plus passionnés que vous puissiez rencontrer.