Backend Developer (Python)
Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here
We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (www.romulus.co) and Robana (www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.
Ideal Background
- At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
- Sound understanding of computer science principles
- Exposure to any of the following
- Financial services
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotic Process Automation
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document Management and Repositories
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
- A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well
Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :
- Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
- Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
- Work Ethic- - We- ve grown up on Wall Street. We work hard, and have aggressive goals. We want our team-mates to be focused, goal-oriented and consistent high achievers.
- Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done, and getting things done right. We want outcome focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.
Work From Home
Package: 7-12 LPA
