Software Engineer, Data Acquisition

The Opportunity

You'll own the systems that feed Nascent's trading and research operations with the data they need to compete — building and operating the web scraping and data acquisition infrastructure that runs 24/7 across a heterogeneous fleet of machines, providers, and operating systems. This is a roughly 50/50 split between software engineering and operations: half your time you're writing production code (primarily Rust) to build new scrapers, defeat anti-bot countermeasures, and architect resilient pipelines; the other half you're deep in logs, monitoring dashboards, and fleet health — diagnosing failures, tuning proxies, and keeping a distributed system humming across mixed infrastructure.

You'll work closely with analysts and researchers who depend on the data you deliver. The problems are genuinely interesting: every major website is actively trying to stop you, infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers and bare metal, and the surface area of what breaks is enormous. This role is remote-first. Montreal proximity is preferred — the team has a growing analyst presence there and in-person collaboration matters — but it's not a hard requirement. North American or European time zones work best for team overlap.

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