Description
Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join the Data Platform team in our Amsterdam office.
We are a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial culture. We value sharp, creative engineers and give them the room and the responsibility to make full use of their abilities.
Your mission is to build and run the platform at the centre of the firm: the source of truth for our proprietary research data, the foundation every department builds on, and the context layer our AI agents depend on. You will make it the place where anyone, human or agent, can find trusted data, understand it, and build on it quickly and safely.
Working closely with our Quants and research engineers, you will help shape how the firm does systematic trading.
Responsibilities
- Own performance at scale. Take ownership of the distributed systems, storage and processing platforms that power our data-intensive applications.
- Build and maintain platform capabilities. Design and maintain the products our users rely on every day: self-provisioned compute, scheduling, transformations, ad-hoc exploration.
- Make the hard design calls. Be part of the group that shapes the data landscape at Flow Traders.
- Run what you build. Keep it reliable on busy days, continuously improve resource usage and cost; investigate and resolve data issues and pipeline failures; build operational tooling and runbooks.
- Enable governance and context for AI. Build and maintain the tools that make good governance possible across the firm.
- Co-develop with AI, responsibly. Use coding agents daily to design, write, test and review code, while owning the correctness of everything that ships.
- Raise the bar around you. Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions and pairing.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and operating multiple data platforms in production, across different domains.
- Strong data modelling and data warehousing experience, including analytical engines.
- Extensive hands-on experience with distributed storage, messaging, batch and stream processing and container orchestration.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java, with high standards for testing and code quality.
- Solid cloud experience across storage, databases and data processing.
- Practical experience with data governance: ownership, lineage, access control, metadata management and data quality frameworks.
Benefits
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year