Backend Engineer - C/C++

Location : Mumbai

Big Picture (The Opportunity) :

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !

What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :

• Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
• Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
• An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.

What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :

• Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
• Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :

• Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
• You should possess excellent communication skills .
• Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.

Job Title: C Developers 

Company Name: Chella Software Private Limited

Company Website: https://www.chelsoft.com/

Company details

THE PARTNER OF CHOICE FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS

Our deep domain experience, ultra-high-performance software solutions, and on-time project delivery make us the preferred partner for the financial markets.

Over the last two decades, Chella Software has built deep domain experience in the financial markets and a capability for developing ultra-high-performance software that can handle very high volumes of data with the lowest levels of latency.

We are now preferred partners for a host of Central Banks, Stock Exchanges, Clearing Corporations, Brokerages, and Institutional Investors across 12 countries.

We are a global provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. We meet the software needs of customers in India, the  Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.

Location: Mumbai

Mode of Working: Work from office: 2 rounds - virtual

Days of Working: 5 Days a week

Responsibilities

Job Description:  

• Programming Languages: C Platform: Linux and Windows environment 
• Comfortable with software development on Unix/Linux platforms • Strong debugging skills  
• Ability to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines. Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organized. 
• Strong analytical skills to diagnose/resolve complex issues • Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment. 
• Ability to "think outside the box". 
• Highly proficient programming skills [C family] 
• Excellent algorithm-design skills 
• Very good knowledge of database concepts and technology, in particular SQL and relational algebra, and query optimization 

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• Planning, estimation, and design usually done in a group  
• Working closely with end-users (traders) to understand their requirements and needs 
• Working closely with the other members of the MC team to identify and employ strategies and solutions to best support the trading desk  
• Working closely with the rest of the SPG to identify and employ strategies and solutions to best support the needs of the MC team  
• Providing support for the traders on trading and risk infrastructure issues 
• Development and support of our trading, risk management, infrastructural and reporting applications 
• Work with the Lead Technologists to develop and deliver solutions within a timely manner within the scope of the overall business strategy 
• Assisting Application Support with root cause analysis of production incidents 

Interview process

Interview Process

• Round 1: Virtual
• Round 2: Virtual
• Final Discussion: Face-to-face in Mumbai 

Perks:

• Training period: 2 months at Madurai; the training cost, Stay, Travel, Food, etc., will be provided by the company
• Yearly 2 travel to your home town shall be sponcered by the company.

• Skilled C/C++ Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency client-server based application
• Responsible for building backend business logic and managing highly efficient data layers interacting with SQL databases
• Expertise in C++ patterns, memory management, multi-threaded programming, and SQL performance tuning
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C/C++ code for core application layers
• Implement and manage database connectivity abstractions utilizing APIs
• Develop, optimize, and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, views, and database schemas
• Diagnose systems issues, identify memory leaks, refactor legacy codebases
• Participate in code reviews, write unit tests, perform testing and operate actively within Agile sprints
• 8+ years of professional development experience using standard C++ with a strong grasp of OOP
• Hands-on expertise with relational databases (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle)
• Strong proficiency in multi-threading, concurrency, IPC, and socket programming
• Experience developing on Windows environments
• Familiarity with debugging tools and version control platforms like Git
• Background in UI frameworks that hook into C++ backends
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or Shell scripting) for database data loading and automation