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!

• Competitive compensation
• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• Monthly after work parties
• Catered breakfast and lunch
• Fully stocked kitchen
• International team outing