Data Engineer
Summary
Data Engineer for a DeFi trading protocol (hired via recruiter Plexus) in London, owning the protocol's monitoring, parameter systems and data infrastructure. Day to day: build on-chain/market-data pipelines, versioned parameter models, Grafana dashboards and alerting, and backtesting frameworks using Python, SQL and AWS.
Plexus is working with a client in the DeFi trading space. They are a permission less, on-chain trading protocol allowing anyone to trade stocks, commodities, currencies and crypto through a fully transparent, auditable stack. They have raised $30M+ from a strong group of institutional and strategic backers.
They are looking for a Data Engineer to own their monitoring, parameter systems and data infrastructure as the protocol scales.
Role:
- Architecture and maintaining ingestion and transformation pipelines for on-chain events and market data.
- Implementing parameter models as reproducible, versioned code for review and deployment.
- Designing Grafana dashboards and alerting for protocol health and economic correctness.
- Building back testing and replay frameworks to validate parameter changes under stress scenarios.
Requirements:
- Strong Python and SQL experience building production data pipelines.
- Hands-on AWS experience across S3, Athena/Glue, Redshift and ECS/Lambda.
- Proven ability to build monitoring systems with Grafana, including alerting and incident workflows.
- Experience productionising research logic with CI/CD, testing and reproducible environments.
- Competitive compensation package.