About Nascent…
Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We've made venture investments in 50+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.
The Opportunity
As a Data Engineer at Nascent, you would join a hedge-fund like environment, leveraging your skills to create impactful data solutions in a fast-moving and flexible environment. You will own the whole data pipeline that feeds into our trading models, from ingestion to processing, and work closely with Portfolio Managers to ensure adequate data storage and cleanliness. You'll drive critical projects in the team by developing versatile tools for researchers to access data in various formats.
This role leverages a unique skillset, requiring a blend of technical expertise, effective collaboration skills, and an understanding and appreciation of financial markets, aligning your efforts with buy-side interests. This is a high-impact role, designed to advance the strategies that make our team successful.
This role is ideally based in Montreal, Canada with some flexibility for remote. For the right candidate, we're happy to support relocation.
Experience Required
- Ideally 3-8 years of experience in a Data Engineering role, handling large, complex sets of data, in a lean team and high-stakes environment
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines in order to utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights for the trading team
- Ability to automate data collection from many different sources (websocket, REST, S3, etc…)
- Ability to handle reasonably large quantities of data (>10TB), ideally handling time-series data
- Ability to build and maintain an API for the researchers to query the data.
- Demonstrated abilities in one of the Python data frame libraries (Pandas|Polars)
- An aptitude and understanding of financial markets and/or trading environments
- Bonus if you have experience working with data from Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv/Reuters, FactSet
About you
- You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and are motivated by the energy on the buy-side of investing
- You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, valuing strong communication and collaboration
- You are curious about the future of crypto, trading and the financial world as a whole
Our Team & Culture
At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.
Principles that drive our team & work
- Compete to win
- Own your shit
- Explore, experiment, play
- Always be building
- Seek and speak truth
What We Offer
At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.
- The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
- Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
- Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work
- Annual Health & Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000
- Retirement plan matching contributions
- Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
- Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth
- Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats
We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.