Backend Developer

• 4–7 years of professional C++ experience in performance-critical systems
• Expert knowledge of modern C++ (C++11/14/17)
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and memory models
• Deep experience with multithreading, atomics, lock-free programming, and CPU cache behaviour
• Excellent knowledge of Linux internals and system-level programming
• Experience with low-level debugging and profiling (gdb, perf, valgrind, flamegraphs)
• Proficiency with CMake/Make and Git

2. Trading Systems Experience (Highly Preferred)

• Hands-on experience with order management systems (OMS) and execution engines
• Knowledge of exchange protocols: FIX, ITCH, OUCH, FAST
• Experience handling market data feeds (L1/L2, multicast, UDP)
• Understanding of latency measurement, clock synchronization, and time stamping
• Experience with network tuning (kernel bypass, socket tuning, CPU pinning)
• Familiarity with trading lifecycle, risk checks, and throttling mechanisms

3. Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

4. Soft Skills (Important for Trading Firms)

• Ability to work under extreme time and accuracy pressure
• Strong ownership of production systems
• Clear and direct communication with traders and quants
• Bias toward simple, fast, and reliable designs

5. Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize ultra-low-latency C++ trading applications
• Build and maintain exchange connectivity and order execution systems
• Develop real-time market data pipelines with strict latency requirements
• Optimize systems at CPU, memory, and network levels
• Implement lock-free or low-lock concurrent designs
• Analyze latency using profiling tools and improve tail latency
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid recovery
• Work closely with Traders and Quant Researchers to implement strategies
• Participate in architecture and performance design reviews
• Review code, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers
• Support production systems and handle time-critical issues when needed

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

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
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ 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

• HTML/CSS/ES6 Javascript, Java 8 and any Java based web framework
• Adobe experience Manager (AEM) Apache Sling, JCR, OSGI
• Good knowledge in Apache Sling framework
• Good knowledge in Java content repository API
• Good knowledge in Apache Jack rabbbit framework
• Knowledge of OSGI and Declarative Services
• Strong understanding of REST Principles and Hands on experience REST based API  development
•  Knowledge of Patterns and good practices to design and develop quality and clean code
• Experience in Pair programming and code reviews
• Experience with testing at all levels unit, integration, functional and performance
• Experience in Agile Project (Scrum or SAFe) execution is a must
• Familiarity with git, basic git branching strategies, working in a peer-reviewed  environment,able to code to existing patterns/styles
• Familiarity with task management, bug tracking and wiki-based documentation tools like Jiraand confluence

• AEM BE developers must have modern ES6 javascript experience as well as java developer experience
• Must be comfortable working with AEM workflows, scheduled jobs, creating/modifying jcr
• nodes via java code, and accessing REST endpoints via java code
• Ability to create custom AEM CQ components and a good exposure to both core and
•  foundation components that can be inherited in AEM
• Good understanding of AEM web development framework using Apache Sling
• Create multiple OSGI Bundles in the AEM stack based on the requirements of the Project

• 3-8+ years of experience programming in a backend language (Java / Python), with a good understanding of troubleshooting errors. 
• 5+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka / 3+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka 

• Cloud Kafka, Control Central, Rest Proxy, HA Proxy, Confluent Kafka Connect, Confluent Kafka Security features 

Job Type: Full-time

CTC Offering : 3.6L PA to 6L PA

Job Location: Remote for 6-9 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra

Required experience:

• Minimum 1.5 to 2 year of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python with experience in some form of Machine Learning ML Algorithms

Overview

We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs

11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

KRAs includes:

1. Understanding the scope of work

2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes

3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager

4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team

5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team

6. Developing products and projects using Python

7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.

8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to

provide optimal deliveries on time

9. Writing Scalable, maintainable code

10. Building secured REST APIs

11. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery

12. Unit testing prepared modules

13. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team

14. Optimization and performance tuning of code

Bonus but not mandatory

1. Nodejs

2. Redis

3. PHP

4. CI/CD

5. AWS