Software Engineer, Data Acquisition
Nascent, Onsite - Montreal, QC
The role
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. The team has a growing analyst presence in Montreal and in-person collaboration matters so this is an onsite role in our Montreal office.