Data Engineer

Data Engineer - London (Hybrid) | Up to £250,000 + Benefits

Are you a technically exceptional Data Engineer with a background in crypto, Web3 or capital markets? This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth HFT firm in London at the heart of their market data product one already trusted by serious clients across global crypto markets.

What's in it for you?

Up to £250,000 DOE + benefits

Hybrid working from central London

Small team, no layers, no corporate theatre

Work directly alongside the founding team on critical, high-impact problems from day one

Key requirements:

Advanced degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering or similar = essential

Experience in crypto, Web3 or capital markets = essential

2–4 years building real data infrastructure that others depended on

Strong Python and strong Rust

Solid AWS experience, comfortable standing up your own infra and debugging distributed systems

Strong SQL and a genuine instinct for data quality

UK-based with full right to work in the UK (no sponsorship available)

London-based or willing to self-relocate from elsewhere in the UK

Day to day:

Building and maintaining data ingestion from CEX and DEX venues — WebSocket feeds, REST, on-chain and keeping them live when exchanges do exchange things

Normalising, validating and reconciling data, gap detection, dedup, schema drift

Owning storage and delivery: time-series and historical datasets, APIs and client feeds, and the SLAs behind them

Building monitoring and alerting so data quality issues are caught internally before a client ever sees them

If you are a Data Engineer with capital markets or crypto experience apply now or email

alicia@forwardrole.com

Please note this role cannot offer sponsorship and you must be based in the UK