Market Data Developer- UK
Description
Symmetry Investments is a global investment company with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Jersey and Cayman Islands. We have been in business since 2014 after successfully spinning off from a major New York-based hedge fund.
At Symmetry Investments, we seek to engage in intelligent risk-taking to create value for our clients, partners and employees. We derive our edge from our capacity to generate Win-Wins – in the broadest sense. Win-Win is our fundamental ethical and strategic principle. By generating Win-Wins, we can create unique solutions that reconcile perspectives that are usually seen as incompatible or opposites, and encompass the best that each side has to offer:
We integrate fixed-income arbitrage with global macro strategies in a novel way.
We invent and develop technology that focuses on the potential of human-machine integration.
We build systems where machines do what they do best, supporting people to do what people do best.
We are creating a collaborative meritocracy: a culture where individual contribution serves both personal and collective goals - and is rewarded accordingly.
We value both ownership thinking AND cooperative team spirit, self-realization AND community.
Symmetry is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our market data development/support team.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to users of the platform (Address any issues with data access or functionality in a timely manner, respond to ad hoc queries and requests from traders, perform morning system checks to ensure platform is running smoothly)
- Develop and maintain the company's market data aggregation platform (Write code to ingest, clean, and normalize data from multiple sources, optimize performance and scalability, troubleshoot and fix bugs
- Suggest improvements to the platform and implement enhancements (Identify areas for optimization based on user feedback, plan and execute platform upgrades and new feature development)
- Maintain data quality within the platform (Monitor for anomalies or missing data, develop tools to verify data accuracy)
The First 3 to 6 Months
- Learn how data is downloaded, processed, stored in our internal market data system and how it is accessed by users.
- Support user queries related to data quality
- Developing the part of the system which downloads data externally and store them inside our internal market data system.
Hard Requirements
- 3+ years of development experience
- Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python or C#
- Comfortable with a 50% development and 50% support environment
- Adept at working in high pressure situation
- Experience with financial data or market data would be an advantage