Market Data Lead

Market Data Lead | Crypto HFT | Fully Remote | Competitive Base + Bonus

Albert Bow is working with a fast-growing crypto HFT firm headquartered in Dubai and building out its proprietary trading platform across global digital asset venues. They are hiring a Market Data Lead to take ownership of the infrastructure that collects, processes, normalises, and distributes real-time market data across the business.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role sitting closely with C++ engineering, quant research, Python development, and trading operations. You will shape the long-term market data architecture while improving the speed, reliability, and scalability of systems already supporting live trading.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction of the firm’s market data platform.
• Design and build low-latency feed handlers, venue integrations, and internal distribution services.
• Lead connectivity work across exchanges, brokers, and other trading venues.
• Optimise networking, parsing, normalisation, serialisation, and dissemination paths.
• Reduce CPU usage, memory overhead, bandwidth requirements, and avoidable data movement.
• Improve market data monitoring across latency, throughput, dropped messages, data quality, and venue health.
• Standardise how new feeds are onboarded, replayed, tested, and supported in production.
• Prioritise delivery across new venue connectivity, platform improvements, and live production issues.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical standard of the wider C++ and market data function.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience developing high-performance systems in modern C++.
• Hands-on experience with market data, feed handlers, exchange connectivity, or latency-sensitive trading infrastructure.
• Strong networking knowledge across TCP, UDP, WebSockets, HTTP, and related protocols.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including production debugging and performance tuning.
• Experience with multithreading, inter-process communication, shared memory, or lock-free data structures.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, memory management, CPU caches, memory layout, NUMA, and NIC behaviour.
• Previous experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, or owning a major infrastructure area.
• Ability to work directly with engineering, trading, quantitative, and operations stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Market data experience within crypto, HFT, or electronic trading.
• FIX or custom binary exchange protocol experience.
• Kernel bypass technologies such as DPDK, RDMA, Solarflare, or OpenOnload.
• Order book construction, tick normalisation, data replay, or simulation experience.
• Kafka, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, or Kibana.
• Experience building global or multi-region data distribution platforms.

What’s on Offer

• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Direct ownership of the market data layer supporting live trading.
• Opportunity to define the architecture rather than simply maintain an inherited platform.
• Close collaboration with trading and engineering leadership.
• Flat structure with significant technical influence and a clear path to becoming a key leader within the trading infrastructure team.