Software Engineer

About the role

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