About the role: Our Quantitative team is working on creating a systematic trading product designed for financial markets. The Data Engineer plays a key role in supporting the team and actively participating in the collaborative development of the product, with a particular focus on the data component. Target start date is January 2025

Responsibilities:

Assist the Quantitative team in establishing and managing internal data engineering infrastructures.
Involves incorporating data from diverse sources into a centralized platform, implementing ETL processes, setting up automated data processing pipelines, conducting data quality checks, and ensuring optimal scalability and accessibility of the infrastructure.
Explore and comprehend various types of financial market data, including alternative data characterized by significant volume and a high level of granularity.
Engage with the quant team to grasp the researchers' needs and develop functional data tools tailored for team use.
Maintain and improve the current data engineering infrastructures by adding new features or implementing brand-new components to improve efficiency.

Qualifications/Skills Required:

B.S or M.S in computer science, data science, or other engineering fields
Proficient in Python, have relevant project experience using this language
Strong interest in financial markets data, alternative data analysis
Strong interest in learning new techniques in big data processing and analysis
A fast learner, a detail-oriented person, and with good communication skill

Preferred Qualifications/Skills

Experience in big data engineering in using Python, Java, Spark/Hadoop, SQL etc.
Experience in database management in using SQL, AWS, Google Cloud services etc.
Experience in OOP programming and big data analysis
Knowledge of the financial market and financial securities

Perks/Benefits: We are committed to a culture of exceptionalism, positivity, diversity of thought, and fun. As an employee of Aleto, you are invited to participate in team outings, opportunities for education, remote flexibility, and a collaborative team environment. We offer comprehensive benefits and compensation.

Aleto is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t tolerate discrimination against protected characteristics (gender, age, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, veteran status.) We want all employees (including executives and HR) to treat others with respect and professionalism. In practice, this means that we:

Hire and promote people based on skills, experience or potential and try to reduce bias in every process (e.g. through structured interviews).
Make accommodation to help people with disabilities move about safely on our premises and use our products, services and equipment.

Apart from those actions, we commit to penalizing every discriminatory, offensive or inappropriate behavior. To do this properly, we ask you to report any discriminatory action against yourself or your colleagues to HR. Our company will not retaliate against you if you file a complaint or discrimination lawsuit. Any employee who retaliates or discriminates will face disciplinary action.

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