About the role
As a Data Engineer at Da Vinci, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and optimizing the data platform that powers our trading decisions. You’ll work closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers to ensure our data infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and fast — enabling us to unlock new opportunities in a highly competitive environment.
Da Vinci engineers are hired for their passion and technical excellence. You will take ownership of end-to-end projects: from shaping data ingestion pipelines and massive-scale processing systems, to optimizing databases and ensuring data quality. With fast feedback loops and multidisciplinary collaboration, you’ll see the immediate impact of your work in production and continuously refine it for performance, reliability, and innovation.
We value engineers who think creatively, solve complex technical challenges, and are eager to push the limits of what’s possible in data systems. At Da Vinci, you’ll have the freedom to propose bold ideas and the resources to turn them into reality. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a fast-growing company where your contributions directly drive business success.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and workflows
- Build and maintain data infrastructure, including databases and ETL processes
- Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and availability for internal use
- Support the team in data analysis and visualization
- Automate data processing tasks and create tools for data-driven decision-making
- Collaborate with various departments to fulfill data requirements and deliver data-driven insights
- Handle various day-to-day data engineering tasks
Requirements:
- Experience with building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and production-grade data systems
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Hands-on experience with modern data frameworks and databases (e.g. Postgres, ClickHouse, Iceberg, Trino, Kafka, Spark, etc.)
- Serious about data quality and system reliability, taking full responsibility and accountability for your contributions
- Enjoy designing lean, efficient solutions to handle large-scale datasets
- Practical and results-driven attitude, with a focus on delivering business impact
- Good communication skills, with the ability to understand business requirements and explain data concepts to non-technical people
- Desire to work in a multidisciplinary team environment, including collaborating with traders, researchers, and software engineers on a daily basis
Benefits:
- An opportunity to work beside the best in the field
- Base salary of EUR 80 to 100K (depending on the level of experience)
- Excellent variable pay based on performance
- Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company
- Company pension scheme
- 1k yearly budget for learning and development
- Meals during work hours
- Social events and after-work drinks
- Reimbursement of travel costs
- Sponsored gym membership
- In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)
Top Skills
What We Do
Da Vinci was founded in 2015 after a group of passionate trading experts found themselves desiring a new way of working. They wanted to do things differently. At Da Vinci, our goal is to build the best proprietary trading house in the world by doing just that. We strive to keep our work smart and innovative, making the most of our team’s strategic minds to challenge existing ways of thinking. We’ve established a unique approach to trading and have high standards for company culture. We are headquartered in the home of the world’s first stock market — Amsterdam — and spend each day immersed in the city’s rich financial and trading history.
Becoming the best in the world means building a team of first-rate talent with the most innovative ideas. The real value comes from how we work and grow together, making working at Da Vinci challenging and rewarding. We have a lot of fun and truly enjoy what we do; at Da Vinci, we value collaboration, so you can find traders, software engineers, researchers and founders working closely together every day. We are nonhierarchical, support employees moving flexibly within the firm and place no limit on personal growth. No matter their role, everyone is key to sustainably growing Da Vinci into the business we know it can be.
We value excellence in everything we do, encourage employees to take ownership of their work. We believe that our colleagues must consistently feel stimulated and supported in order to reach their full potential and achieve our ambitious goals.
