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.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
- 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.
About Jane Street
Jane Street, founded in 2000 in New York, is a quantitative trading firm and major liquidity provider in equities, ETFs, options and crypto. It trades $20B+ daily with 2,600+ employees across New York, London and Hong Kong, known for deep OCaml and functional programming culture and rigorous research. In Web3, Jane Street trades spot and derivatives on centralized and decentralized venues and invests via its crypto arm. The process stresses mathematics, reasoning under uncertainty and collaborative problem solving over crypto-native background. Jane Street combines quantitative research, cutting-edge market microstructure analysis, and high-concurrency systems engineering to provide continuous liquidity across global digital asset markets.
