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Senior Platform Data Engineer

Flow Traders is a market making firm headquatered in Amsterdam.

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Senior Platform Data Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Platform Data Engineer to join our growing Data team in our Amsterdam location. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!

Platform Data Engineers at Flow Traders are responsible for maximizing the value of our data. You will develop and maintain platform capabilities like self service offerings to Data platform users, improve resource utilization on platform and deliver business use cases. Working closely with Quantitative Traders and Fundamental Analysts, you will make data available, performant and accessible, choosing the right technology for the task.

Platform capabilities include but are not limited to: Self-service ETL templates, Self-service job scheduler, self-provisioning of user clusters, value added services (monitoring & alerting), configurable Data Quality rules, Metadata Management, decisions on data modelling/ data storage/data format. Proposing and implementing new platform capabilities/technology.

 

What You Will Do

  • Develop and maintain platform capabilities
  • Develop and maintain data infrastructure and data intensive applications
  • Create insights and make data available, accessible and performant for business
  • Work closely with Business, helping Quantitative Traders and Fundamental Analysts
  • Support operations with deployment and configuration of data infrastructure
  • Mentor and coach less experienced colleagues 

 

A Day in The Life 

A typical day for a Senior Platform Data Engineer is a blend of short cycle maintenance and ongoing development work. It starts with checking the data monitoring systems for alerts and deciding what needs immediate attention or can picked up in the next development cycle. From there you will attend a stand-up meeting with your team. This is an opportunity to catch up on progress of development, raise problems and discuss plans for the rest of the day.

 

What You Need to Succeed

  • Strong background in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • In-depth knowledge of at least one of the programming languages: Java, Scala, Python.
  • In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with distributed systems and frameworks: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Cloud providers: GCP (preferred), AWS, Azure
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-a-code technologies: Terraform, Ansible
  • Experience with streaming data processing
  • Experience working closely with Data Scientists and Data Analysts
  • Proficiency in Linux OS

 

Recruitment Process

  1. Submit your application
  2. Technical assessment
  3. Motivational Interview 
  4. Technical Interview(s)
  5. Cultural Fit Interview

 

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer a competitive salary, an annual discretionary profit share and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

  • Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
  • Our own company boat
  • In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
  • In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
  • Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
  • Weekly chair massages
  • Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
  • Global rotations between our offices worldwide
  • and more!

 

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.