Software Engineer

Description:

Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets research. We are seeking a Software Engineer for our team in Gurgaon. Our Core Technology team has some of the best programmers in India working on cutting edge technologies to build a super fast and robust trading infrastructure handling millions of dollars worth of trading transactions every day.

Requirements

• Contribute to all layers of backend systems including databases, APIs and applications

• Design, build and maintain applications for business requirements

• Architect scalable and reliable applications

• Write clean and modular code, following good coding standards and practices

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Be involved in the entire application lifecycle

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of front-end developers, engineers and system administrators

• Devise innovative solutions to address new and complicated challenges

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

• Take lead on projects, as needed

• Work in a high paced competitive environment

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline from a Tier 1 college.

• 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in designing and improving information systems

• Proficiency in Python programming

• Extensive experience working with relational databases and handling large datasets

• Good Understanding of object oriented and asynchronous programming

• Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS

• Knowledge of Linux systems and bash scripting

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Willingness to continuously learn and improve

• Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects

Good to have:

• Experience in Financial services space/domain

• Experience in and understanding of system design decisions

• Experience in leading small teams or projects

Benefits:

Our open and casual work culture gives you the space to innovate and deliver. Our cubicle free offices, disdain for bureaucracy and insistence to hire the very best creates a melting pot for great ideas and technology innovations. Everyone on the team is approachable, there is nothing better than working with friends!

Our perks have you covered.

• Competitive compensation

• 4 weeks of paid vacation

• Monthly after work parties

• Catered breakfast and lunch

• Fully stocked kitchen

• International team outing