Associate Data Engineer - Prague
We are partnering with a leading global investment bank that is undertaking a major transformation of its Markets technology landscape. Following the successful launch of a new Data Engineering function in London, the organisation is now expanding into Prague as part of a significant multi-year technology investment programme.
This is a rare opportunity to join as Associate Data Engineer at the beginning of a large-scale build-out and play a key role in shaping the next generation of data infrastructure supporting front-office trading, market data, pricing, risk, and analytics capabilities.
The Prague team will work closely with senior engineering leadership in London and will become a core part of the firm's strategic Markets Data Platform organisation.
Responsibilities
- Building scalable real-time data platforms supporting front-office trading businesses.
- Developing distributed services and microservices using modern engineering practices.
- Designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
- Building high-performance data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and distribution pipelines.
- Developing APIs and services that support market data and trading workflows.
- Working on streaming technologies and real-time data processing frameworks.
- Partnering with engineering, quantitative, and business stakeholders across multiple asset classes.
- Contributing to platform architecture and long-term technology strategy.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- 3 + years experience with commercial experience with Java and python
- Experience building scalable backend systems.
- Knowledge of distributed systems and microservices.
- Experience with Kafka or other messaging technologies.
- Understanding of event-driven architecture.
- Experience developing APIs and service-based architectures.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
