Vinter is seeking an individual who will be joining the Vinter team and take on the role of a data engineer. The objective is to deliver a state-of-the-art index calculation and data distribution system, serving the needs of the financial and crypto asset community. 

The job

• You will contribute to the development of a real-time data distribution system.

• The most important KPIs are correct index values and calculation speed.

• You will design, develop, and implement data infrastructure and pipelines that collect, connect, centralize, and curate data from various internal and external data sources

• Expanding our platform’s observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing

• You will help people and companies to get access to a better and fairer global economy.

Our Stack

• Monitoring: Grafana

• Alerting: Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch

• Cloud: AWS

• Database systems: Postgresql (main datastore),  Redis (caching,  data processing)

• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04

• Protocols: HTTP, HTTP/2 WebSocket

• Platforms (packaged in Docker containers): Python, Django, lua (for some Redis scripting)

Requirements

• 2+ experience with Python and preferably the Django framework.

• Experience working in git, docker, and CI/CD development tools.

• Experience developing REST and WebSocket APIs. 

Meriting

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Experience with AWS services.

• Experience with FIX APIs. 

You

• We believe that you are self motivated and that you understand that with freedom comes responsibility

• You stand-up for your beliefs even if it goes against your superiors and you respect those beliefs that go against yours. 

• You cherish colleagues that work hard and try to improve. This includes making mistakes.

• You respect the work of your colleagues while at the same make a true effort to offer constructive advice. 

• You know true excellence only comes from great collaboration and full dedication to the task. 

• You know that, at the end of the day, it is always the client that makes your job valuable and possible.   

• We believe that you lead by example and experience rather than by position or seniority.

Vinter is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law.

Location:  The company office is located in Stockholm Sweden but we accept applicants that want or need to work remotely.

Salary: To be negotiated.

Contract type: Permanent - full time