Data Engineer, Talos Trading
Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
Open for applications
Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the bridge connecting institutions to the digital assets market, and to deliver the most pioneering and trusted end-to-end trading lifecycle platform there is.
Role
Who you are
- Computer science fundamentals
- The ideal candidate will have a strong fundamental knowledge of software engineering and data engineering, and will be able to apply their expertise to design and build a modern data processing platform
- Hands-on experience with data modeling and building production grade pipelines using distributed data processing technologies and frameworks (batch and streaming) such as Spark, Flink, Beam, Kafka etc
- Extensive experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Scala, Java), proficiency using SQL for analytics (aggregate & window functions), and mindful about writing clean, maintainable code
- Ability to create elegant and intuitive dataset design; advocate for data quality
- Autonomous self starter that’s solution oriented and with a good understanding of the context between product and business
Desirable
- Using Cloud managed services and data warehouse solutions (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Vertica, Teradata, etc.)
- Building and operating a data lakehouse
- Creating and managing data infrastructure (ideally using Terraform)
- Trading/Finance
What the job involves
- Talos is hiring a Data Engineer to help us design and build our next generation data platform. which will be the foundation for external client reports and dashboards, as well as a playground for internal data analysts and quant developers
- The platform will be used to process and analyze hundreds of terabytes of market data and client trading activity
- It will also systematize and expand broader data initiatives, impacting clients' execution strategy via meaningful data-driven insights
- Build, implement, and maintain high-quality data pipelines based on internal data and external market data sources
- Implement reusable frameworks for data processing and data sharing to consumers
- Analyze data for trends and information most useful to clients; distill data into meaningful decision points for clients
- Liaise with teams such as engineering, research, and business development to help set product roadmap priorities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
So far, the increasing institutional interest in the value of crypto-assets has been stymied by a lack of scaled, efficient, and secure infrastructure that these institutions could use for trade. Talos addresses the problem of digital asset trading between institutions, helping them to securely sidestep these obstacles into a fresh market with potentially huge returns.
The company provides a range of end-to-end, highly configurable tools to populate and facilitate the institutional crypto-asset market from just one platform. Talos' approach is helping to lower the bar for wide-ranging adoption of cryptocurrency, supporting the full lifespan of digital assets trading. That said, because they’re developing the market of an entirely new asset-class, progress is accelerated and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors like PayPal and Fidelity during their Series A funding round, with the funds being used to create an institutional-grade service to help them both shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has made a number of significant partnerships, and also acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will allow its clients to design, validate, implement and manage highly customized portfolios.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
May 2021
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $151m
Company benefits
- Pension
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Remote and flexible working
- Global offsites and team outings
Company values
- Out-of-the-box thinking - We look for entrepreneurial, non-linear thinkers who are passionate about their work and can imagine creative, groundbreaking solutions. After all, we’re seeking to reshape an industry
- Ideas over egos - We take a collaborative and systematic approach to problem solving. Everyone’s voice is heard and appreciated, and everyone is expected to make an impact. New ideas and rigorous debate are commonplace
- Decentralized but tight-knit - Crypto is geographically distributed – and so are we. But we’re close-knit and our doors (real-life and Zoom-life) are always open. Our teams operate with flexibility and autonomy
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Anton Katz
(CEO & Co-Founder)Having served in the Israeli Defense Forces for 3 years, Anton worked at Microsoft in Program Management for almost 2 years and Broadway Technology for a further 6. In September 2018, he left his role as Head of Trading Technology at AQR Capital Management to co-found Talos Trading.
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