Pine Software Technology Ltd is a software company specializing in trading technology solutions for regulated brokers and trading firms. We build SaaS products that support electronic trading, brokerage operations, risk management, and financial data analysis.
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We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer for the Market Data Platform.
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Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of the Data Platform, focusing on data pipelines, storage, and processing layers.
• Own architectural decisions around data storage, data modeling, and data access patterns.
• Design and build scalable data pipelines for ingestion, processing, and transformation (batch and streaming).
• Develop and maintain high-performance Python-based data processing components and services.
• Work with PostgreSQL and other storage systems to ensure correct schema design, partitioning, and performance optimization.
• Design and maintain streaming data pipelines for real-time market data processing (Kafka or similar).
• Implement data orchestration workflows (Airflow, Dagster, or similar).
• Ensure data reliability and quality: validation, monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Optimize data systems for high throughput and low latency.
• Establish and drive best practices in data engineering, code quality, testing, and CI/CD.
• Define and maintain data contracts, schemas, and governance practices across teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive the technical growth of the data engineering team.
• Collaborate with platform, backend, and product teams to align data domains and interfaces.
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Job requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering (with Python) and 1+ year in a Lead role.
• Strong experience building data-intensive systems and data platforms.
• Advanced proficiency in Python as a primary language for data engineering (data processing, pipelines, internal tooling).
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT pipelines (batch and streaming).
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Flink, or similar).
• Experience with streaming platforms and event-driven data pipelines (Apache Kafka or similar).
• Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, or similar).
• Strong practical experience with PostgreSQL and other data storage systems: schema design, query optimization, indexing, partitioning
• Experience working with analytical databases/data warehouses/data lakes.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling (OLTP, OLAP, dimensional modeling, time-series).
• Experience designing and building high-throughput data ingestion and processing systems.
• Experience implementing data quality, validation, and observability practices.
• Experience with containerization and deployment practices (Docker, CI/CD).
• Strong engineering discipline: clean architecture, testing, maintainability.
• English level: B1-B2
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Nice to Have

• ClickHouse or other analytical / time-series databases, NoSQL solutions
• Kubernetes
• Experience with lakehouse technologies (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
• Experience with real-time analytics systems
• Domain experience in trading/market data systems
• Familiarity with event sourcing
• Patterns: CQRS, Materialized Views, Snapshotting (in data context)
• Experience with cloud services (AWS S3, IAM, etc.)
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What We Offer

• Care from Day One — medical insurance from your first day, including dental care, massage, and professional psychological support.
• Work-Life Balance — 25 days of paid vacation + 30 days of paid sick leave.
• Investment in Your Energy — partial reimbursement for sports and fitness activities.
• Growth & Learning — coverage for English or Ukrainian language courses and a dedicated professional development budget.
• Knowledge Library — office books and access to the Kuka online library.
• Island Relaxation — up to 14 days per year at the company villa in Cyprus.
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Please note, that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering Pine as your next career move!