At ABC arbitrage, we are passionate about technology and develop quantitative and systematic trading strategies that span multiple asset classes across all major global financial markets. Our success is built on technology, research, and data with collaboration at the heart of our culture.
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team.
This role is central to shaping and evolving the data platform that fuels our quantitative research and trading. You will work directly with large-scale financial and time series datasets, designing solutions that make data accessible, reliable, and analysis-ready for quants, researchers, and traders. Your mission is not only to build pipelines, but also to unlock insights from data, ensuring our teams can innovate and move quickly with the right information at their fingertips.
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering
- Data platform design & development: Build and evolve scalable, resilient pipelines for ingesting, processing, and structuring large volumes of financial and market data.
- Time series & tick data handling: Manage high-frequency, high-volume datasets with efficient formats (Parquet) and partitioning schemes.
- Data accessibility: Deliver clean, reliable, analysis-ready datasets for quants, researchers, and traders.
- Data products: Develop lightweight, user-friendly dashboards and tools (e.g., Plotly Dash) to expose data insights.
- Data quality & performance: Optimize data models, queries, and processing workflows to ensure reliability, speed, and accuracy.
Technology Stack
- ETL/ELT workflows: Apache Airflow, Python
- Distributed data processing: Apache Spark (performance optimization on large datasets)
- Data storage & query optimization: AWS Athena, S3, related AWS cloud services
About you
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a data engineering or backend software role, ideally in a financial or high-frequency trading environment.
- Strong programming skills in Python (including use of Pandas, PySpark).
- Expertise in SQL, Apache Spark, Airflow, AWS S3, Athena, and Parquet file formats.
- Proven experience managing and transforming high-volume time series data.
- Deep understanding of data modeling, query optimization, and big data performance tuning.
- Experience in cloud infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with financial instruments, trading systems, and market microstructure.
- Experience integrating market data from vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, BMLL…).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Docker).
- Proficiency in distributed computing, and parallel processing techniques.
This offer describes the ideal profile. If you don't have all the skills listed but think you're up to the challenge, don't hesitate to apply!
Information
- Permanent contract available as soon as possible or depending on constraints
- Attractive compensation package including profit-sharing based on operating results
- Position based in Paris, Opéra-Bourse district
- Hybrid remote work
ABC arbitrage is officially certified as a Great Place To Work 2023, and we are ranked among the Top 30 companies in our category!
99% of our employees say that ABC arbitrage is truly a great place to work!
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is a priority. We strive to create an inclusive working environment, conducive to the fulfillment of each individual, while ensuring a harmonious balance between professional and personal life. Our policies in favor of gender equality and people with disabilities are at the heart of our approach.
Top Skills
What We Do
We are a team of enthusiastic technologists, building innovative trading systems and asset management strategies since 1995. We develop systematic arbitrage models for liquid assets all over the world.
The ABC arbitrage Group (Paris, Dublin, Singapour) is listed on Euronext Paris and since its inception has achieved 100% consecutive positive results in fast changing markets. The wholly-owned subsidiaries ABC arbitrage Asset Management and ABC arbitrage Management Asia manage the Group's operational activity.
Our success is based directly on the talent of our employees: 100 people, from 12 different nationalities with an average age of 35 and come mainly from scientific backgrounds.
Our company culture is based on commitment, collaboration, responsibility and innovation.
We encourage new ideas and provide the means to develop them in an agile and pleasant workplace.
We want to meet passionate employees, agile in a technological environment and driven by the discovery of financial markets.
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