Jane Street

Data Specialist

Jane Street  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

About the Position

We're looking for a Data Specialist to help us understand, improve, and maintain the data that fuels our trading. You'll be embedded in an engineering team and will work closely with software developers, traders, and operations professionals across the firm.

Meeting the needs of these groups involves diverse types of work including analyzing, onboarding, validating, and producing large data sets from many different sources. You'll collaborate closely with your direct team and trading desks to understand requirements and improve our software. In this role, you will interface directly with exchanges and data vendors to raise, track, and resolve issues critical to our trading as well as develop deep domain knowledge to help interpret and consume our data, driving business growth in new areas.

About You

  • Strong data analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
  • Programming experience in any language
  • Experience using SQL and relational databases
  • Responsible, organised, with great attention to detail
  • Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Operations, support, and/or project coordination experience is a plus

While prior experience with financial data would be nice, we don’t expect you to have a finance background.

Jane Street

About Jane Street

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.

More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.

Jane Street does not offer any services to individual investors: https://www.janestreet.com/fraud-and-impersonation-warnings/

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
2000
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