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
- 6 weeks of paid vacation
- Monthly after work parties
- Catered breakfast and lunch
- Fully stocked kitchen
- International team outing
Top Skills
What We Do
Graviton is a quantitative investment firm established in 2014. Since our inception, we have created a team of researchers, portfolio managers, and technologists. The use of quantitative analysis and insights in financial markets enables us to compete in some of the most complex and competitive products. As an emerging electronic trading firm, we integrate disciplines such as computer science, finance, systems engineering, and statistics. We have a team of passionate engineers and traders who have built some of the fastest systems for trading. Graviton has some of the most accomplished quantitative traders in India. We have separate trading teams who use a wide range of trading strategies across different asset classes. Each of our trading teams maintains a focus on their individual processes while being supported from the core support team. Our trading teams have strategic autonomy but have access to resources which are shared across the organization like software, technology, and connectivity. They also exchange market data and memberships, compliance and all related support functions which are needed to handle the business process with precision.
