Senior Software Engineer - Data

About the role

Do you want to help define the future of finance? Are you a strong software engineer passionate about data, distributed systems, and delivering impact at scale? Are you looking for a values-driven company that invests in its people and gives you the autonomy to shape critical systems, while staying close to the code?

Responsibilities

• Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer.
• Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines.
• Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products.
• Explore and integrate new technologies (e.g., data orchestration or cloud-native tools) to optimise performance and scalability.
• Take shared ownership of data systems, from design to deployment and ongoing improvement and support.
• Perform thoughtful peer reviews that raise code quality and share best practices across the team.
• Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic.
• Leverage and deploy AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively.

Requirements

• Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Ability to design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration.

Qualifications

• Experience in stream processing frameworks and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience working in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Interest in AI-driven tooling for engineering workflows.
• Interest in crypto and blockchain technologies.

Skills

• Scala
• Spark
• Databricks
• AWS
• Airflow
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Functional Programming

Benefits

• Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• Remote Work Budget: $650 budget to set up your home office space.
• L&D Budget: $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + US Public Holidays.
• Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
• Enhanced Parental Leave: We provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave.
• Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
• 401k: Company match included.
• Mental Health: Full access to Spill mental health support.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Flexible.