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We are hiring for a Python Developer at Wissen Technology!

📍 Location: Pune (Hybrid)

💼 Experience: 3–6 Years

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate / 15 days preferred

🔧 Key Skills:

• Strong experience in Python

• Hands-on with Pandas & NumPy

• Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda preferred)

• Good understanding of data processing & APIs

• SQL knowledge

🏢 About Wissen Technology:

Wissen Technology, part of the Wissen Group (est. 2000), is a fast-growing technology company specializing in high-end consulting across Banking, Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains.

✔️ Global presence – US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico & Canada

✔️ Certified Great Place to Work®

✔️ Trusted by Fortune 500 clients like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and more

✔️ Strong growth with 400% revenue increase in recent years

🌐 Website: www.wissen.com

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology/

If you’re interested or have relevant candidates, please share your resume at [your email].

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While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.

About Wissen Technology:

·        The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015.

·        Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for organizations in the Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains. We help clients build world class products.

·        Our workforce has highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.

·        Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 400% in these five years without any external funding or investments.

·        Globally present with offices US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

·        We offer an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.

·        Wissen Technology has been certified as a Great Place to Work®.

·        Wissen Technology has been voted as the Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider in 2020.

·        Over the years, Wissen Group has successfully delivered $650 million worth of projects for more than 20 of the Fortune 500 companies.

·        We have served client across sectors like Banking, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Energy. They include likes of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, MSCI, StateStreet, Flipkart, Swiggy, Trafigura, GE to name a few.

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Job Title: Application Development Engineer (Python – Backtesting & Index Platforms)

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Engine Development: Design and implement modular, reusable Python components for index construction, rebalancing, and backtesting.

Large-Scale Simulation: Use Pandas, NumPy, and PySpark to run historical calculations across long time horizons and multiple index variants.

Workflow Integration: Integrate engines with orchestrators such as Airflow or Temporal using parameterized, config-driven execution.

Reference Data Consumption: Query and utilize pricing, security master, and corporate action data from Snowflake.

Quality & Reconciliation: Build automated test harnesses to validate outputs, compare against benchmarks, and guarantee reproducibility.

Performance Optimization: Improve runtime efficiency through vectorization, caching, and distributed computing patterns.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Business, Index Ops, and Platform teams to accelerate research-to-production onboarding.

Required Technical Capabilities

Python Expertise: Strong proficiency in Python application development with emphasis on clean architecture and maintainable design.

Data & Numerical Libraries: Deep experience with Pandas and NumPy; working knowledge of PySpark for distributed workloads.

Financial Computation: Ability to implement portfolio mathematics, weighting algorithms, and time-series transformations.

Config-Driven Systems: Experience building rule-based or metadata-driven processing frameworks.

Database Skills: Strong SQL and experience consuming structured data from Snowflake.

Testing Discipline: Expertise in unit testing, regression testing, and deterministic replay of calculations.

Orchestration Integration: Familiarity with Airflow, Temporal, or similar workflow engines.

Cloud Infrastructure: Solid understanding of AWS ecosystem services (S3, Lambda, IAM) and how they integrate with the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Role Title:- Mid-Level Python Developer

 Location - Bangalore

 Employment Type -Full-time (Work from Office)

Experience Required - 3 to 7 years

Notice Period Preference - Open to all candidates, but shorter notice period candidates will be preferred.

About the Role

We are looking for a strong Mid-Level Python Developer to join our backend engineering team in Bangalore. The role is focused on building, maintaining, and improving backend systems for fintech products in the Indian capital markets domain, specifically around PMS, AIF, portfolio operations, order management, reporting, and client-facing enterprise workflows.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building APIs, working with relational databases, writing clean and maintainable Python code, and solving practical backend engineering problems. This is a backend-first role. Frontend or Angular exposure is preferred but not mandatory.

The candidate should be capable of independently owning backend modules, collaborating with product and frontend teams, mentoring junior developers, and eventually growing into a team lead role.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs using Python and FastAPI.

- Build reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend services.

- Work extensively with PostgreSQL for database design, querying, optimization, and data integrity.

- Use Redis for caching, queues, session handling, or performance improvement where applicable.

- Write clean, modular, testable, and production-ready Python code.

- Develop REST APIs with proper request validation, error handling, authentication, and response structure.

- Understand business requirements and convert them into robust backend implementation.

- Debug production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term fixes.

- Optimize database queries, backend logic, and API performance.

- Participate in code reviews and maintain engineering standards.

- Mentor junior developers and help improve their coding, debugging, and backend design skills.

- Work closely with frontend developers, QA, product/business teams, and management.

- Contribute to technical documentation, SOPs, and internal development practices.

- Build backend solutions for fintech workflows related to PMS, AIF, capital markets, reporting, order processing, and operational automation.

Required Technical Skills

Python Backend Development:-

- Strong hands-on experience with Core Python.

- Good understanding of Python data structures, functions, classes, modules, exception handling, and file handling.

- Ability to write clean, reusable, and maintainable backend code.

- Experience with practical backend service logic, data transformation, and debugging.

FastAPI / API Development:-

- Hands-on experience with FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks.

- Strong understanding of REST API design.

- Experience with request/response validation, status codes, error handling, middleware, and dependency injection.

- Basic understanding of authentication and authorization in APIs.

- Ability to design APIs that are practical, secure, and maintainable.

Database Skills:-

- Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL.

- Ability to write SQL queries involving joins, aggregations, filters, subqueries, and transactions.

- Understanding of indexing, query performance, constraints, and relational database design.

- Ability to troubleshoot data issues and optimize database-heavy backend workflows.

 Redis / Caching:-

- Working knowledge of Redis.

- Understanding of caching use cases, TTL, key-value storage, and performance improvement patterns.

- Experience using Redis in backend applications will be preferred.

 Backend Engineering Fundamentals:-

- Understanding of application architecture, modular code structure, logging, configuration management, and environment variables.

- Good debugging and problem-solving ability.

- Understanding of production issues, edge cases, and maintainability.

- Basic understanding of background jobs, queues, async processing, or scheduled tasks will be preferred.

Version Control & Development Practices

- Experience with Git.

- Ability to work with branches, pull requests, code reviews, and structured development workflows.

- Familiarity with testing, basic unit tests, and API testing tools such as Postman.

Preferred Skills

- Experience in fintech, capital markets, PMS, AIF, wealth management, portfolio reporting, or order management systems.

- Exposure to Angular or frontend development.

- Experience with background task processing, Celery, Redis queues, or scheduled jobs.

- Experience with Docker or Linux-based deployment environments.

- Experience working on enterprise SaaS or client-facing business applications.

- Understanding of financial data workflows, reconciliations, transactions, holdings, reporting, or order lifecycle.

Domain Exposure Preferred

Candidates with experience or interest in the following areas will be preferred:

- Indian capital markets

- Portfolio Management Services — PMS

- Alternative Investment Funds — AIF

- Wealth management platforms

- Order management systems

- Financial reporting systems

- Investor/client reporting workflows

- Transaction, holding, and reconciliation workflows

Expected Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should be:

- A strong backend developer with practical problem-solving ability.

- Comfortable working independently on backend modules.

- Able to understand business workflows and translate them into technical implementation.

- Detail-oriented, especially when working with financial data.

- Comfortable debugging production issues and improving system reliability.

- Capable of mentoring junior developers.

- Interested in growing into a future technical/team lead role.

- Comfortable working from an office in Bangalore.

Assessment Process

The hiring process will include:

1. Initial screening based on resume, experience, notice period, and compensation fit.

2. Google Form technical assessment of 50 marks.

3. Live coding / technical discussion round.

4. Final face-to-face discussion covering technical depth, domain fit, ownership, and team fit.

What We Are Evaluating

- Python fundamentals and coding clarity

- Backend API design ability

- SQL and PostgreSQL practical knowledge

- Debugging and problem-solving approach

- Understanding of Redis and caching basics

- Ability to think through edge cases

- Code maintainability and readability

- Production-readiness mindset

- Ability to work in fintech/capital markets workflows

- Potential to mentor juniors and grow into a lead role

 Summary

This role is suitable for a backend-focused Python developer who has strong hands-on coding ability, practical database knowledge, and the maturity to independently own backend modules. The candidate should be comfortable working in a fintech product environment where accuracy, reliability, and clean backend design are critical.