Backend Principal Engineer

Title: Quantitative Developer

Location : Mumbai

Candidates preferred with Master's

Who We Are

At Dolat Capital, we are a collective of traders, puzzle solvers, and tech enthusiasts passionate about decoding the intricacies of financial markets. From navigating volatile trading conditions with precision to continuously refining cutting-edge technologies and quantitative strategies, our work thrives at the intersection of finance and engineering.

We operate a robust, ultra-low latency infrastructure built for market-making and active trading across Equities, Futures, and Options—with some of the highest fill rates in the industry. If you're excited by technology, trading, and critical thinking, this is the place to evolve your skills into world class capabilities.

What You Will Do

This role offers a unique opportunity to work across both quantitative development and high frequency trading. You'll engineer trading systems, design and implement algorithmic strategies, and directly participate in live trading execution and strategy enhancement.

1. Quantitative Strategy & Trading Execution

• Design, implement, and optimize quantitative strategies for trading derivatives, index options, and ETFs
• Trade across options, equities, and futures, using proprietary HFT platforms
• Monitor and manage PnL performance, targeting Sharpe ratios of 6+
• Stay proactive in identifying market opportunities and inefficiencies in real-time HFT environments
• Analyze market behavior, particularly in APAC indices, to adjust models and positions dynamically

2. Trading Systems Development

• Build and enhance low-latency, high-throughput trading systems
• Develop tools to simulate trading strategies and access historical market data
• Design performance-optimized data structures and algorithms for fast execution
• Implement real-time risk management and performance tracking systems

3. Algorithmic and Quantitative Analysis

• Collaborate with researchers and traders to integrate strategies into live environments
• Use statistical methods and data-driven analysis to validate and refine models
• Work with large-scale HFT tick data using Python / C++

4. AI/ML Integration

• Develop and train AI/ML models for market prediction, signal detection, and strategy enhancement
• Analyze large datasets to detect patterns and alpha signals

5. System & Network Optimization

• Optimize distributed and concurrent systems for high-transaction throughput
• Enhance platform performance through network and systems programming
• Utilize deep knowledge of TCP/UDP and network protocols

6. Collaboration & Mentorship

• Collaborate cross-functionally with traders, engineers, and data scientists
• Represent Dolat in campus recruitment and industry events as a technical mentor

What We Are Looking For:

• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming (C++).
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
• Hands-on experience in systems programming within a Linux environment.
• Proficient and Hands on programming using python/ C++
• Familiarity with distributed computing and high-concurrency systems.
• Knowledge of network programming, including TCP/UDP protocols.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

A passion for technology-driven solutions in the financial markets.

Description

6sense is a Predictive Intelligence Engine that is reimagining how B2B companies do sales and marketing. It works with big data at scale, advanced machine learning and predictive modelling to find buyers and predict what they will purchase, when and how much.

6sense helps B2B marketing and sales organisations fully understand the complex ABM buyer journey. By combining intent signals from every channel with the industry’s most advanced AI predictive capabilities, it is finally possible to predict account demand and optimize demand generation in an ABM world. Equipped with the power of AI and the 6sense Demand Platform™, marketing and sales professionals can uncover, prioritize and engage buyers to drive more revenue.

6sense is seeking a Python Developer to become part of a team designing, developing, and deploying its customer centric applications.

A Python Developer at 6sense will have the opportunity to

• Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers
• Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption
• Build micro services and their deployment process
• Work with problems of scale, employ technologies that are distributed in nature.
• Perform code reviews

Required qualifications and must have skills

• BE/BTech/BS or equivalent
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (3 to 8 Years of minimum hands-on experience in Python).
• Hands on with Data structures & Algorithm programming.
• Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
• Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge
• Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line
• Object-oriented concepts & design patterns

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About SafeGold

Gold is the most trusted asset across the entire world and one of the largest asset classes in India. The total traded value of gold in India exceeds $300 billion annually – nearly all of it in an unorganised, offline manner. We, at SafeGold, are building the digital infrastructure to organise the gold market using technology. SafeGold is India’s largest digital gold platform with 35 million customers and 100+ distribution partners across India, Thailand and UAE. The focus has always been on revenues and profitability growth which has been widely recognised.

#9 in 2023 ET Growth Champions (India)

#21 in 2023 FT High Growth Companies (Asia)

With revenues of more than Rs. 4,500 crs in the year ending March-23, we have been part of the Financial Times rankings of the fastest growing startups in the Asia-Pacific region since 2021 till date. 

SafeGold is backed by the World Gold Council and leading venture capital funds, Beenext and Pravega.

Job Description

We’re a small team with insanely large ambitions. We are looking for a Software Engineer who will help shape Safe Gold’s product and marketing strategies by processing, analyzing and interpreting data sets. You will work closely with the tech, product and business teams for designing and developing a scalable application architecture, based on business requirements. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in

PHP and Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,MongoDB). You will have strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction to thrive in our work environment.

What will your job entail:

● Implement a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application.

● Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

● Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability.

● Implement security and data protection as per industry standards.

● Monitor the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application

● Coordinate with the product team to understand the requirements and formulate a detailed technical documentation.

● Assist junior developers if required.

Key Requirements:

● 4-7 years of experience in software development, at least 1 year of experience in a product based startup is preferable

● Strong understanding of MVC Architecture

● Atleast 2-3 years of working experience in PHP is a must have and proficiency in Laravel Framework will be a plus

● Proficient knowledge of both Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,MongoDB) is a must have

● Working knowledge of Python and Django/Flask Framework is good to have

● Familiarity with advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, ReactJS

● Strong understanding of fundamental design principles to build a scalable application.

● Experience with implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git).

● At least 2 years of experience working on AWS cloud platform, using tools like EC2,RDS,Lambda, SQS, Elasticache

·      4+ years of experience as a Python Developer.

·      Good Understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Solid principles.

·      Good Understanding in Programming and analytical skills.

·      Should have hands on experience in AWS Cloud Service like S3, Lambda functions Knowledge. (Must Have)

·      Should have experience Working with large datasets (Must Have)

·      Proficient in using NumPy, Pandas. (Must Have)

·      Should have hands on experience on Mysql (Must Have)

·      Should have experience in debugging Python applications (Must have)

·      Knowledge of working on Flask.

·      Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM).

·      Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

·      Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN

·      Strong at problem-solving and logical abilities

·      Sound knowledge of Front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript 

·      Strong commitment and desire to learn and grow.

Responsibilities:

• Experience and working knowledge of Java 8, Hibernate, Spring Boot, Microservices and REST API is mandatory
• Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts
• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms and multithreading
• Good understanding of AWS and cloud-native technologies
• Knowledge of AWS services - RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Kinesis. Experience of working with AWS SDK is preferred.
• Good understanding of CI/CD and Jenkins pipeline
• Experience of writing unit tests using Junit/Mockito
• Knowledge of Integration Testing framework like Cucumber is required.
• Proficient in Git commands and branching concepts

•  Exp : 3-15 years
• Java NMS/EMS  : Work location : GGN
• Experience in implementation of NMS/EMS applications and good understanding of FCAPS functionalities
• Proficient in Java/J2EE, SpringBoot, SpringCloud, Kafka and REST webservices
• Experience in implementation of micro-services based applications
• Experience in any of the rule engine like Drools and workflow creation like JBPM, Camunda
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, DB schema designing and database accessing using Hibernate JPA 
• Experience with SNMP, Netconf, device management, inventory management
• Hands on experience in Wildfly/Jboss App server 
• Experience in dev-ops tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficient in Angular, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Typescript, ES6 
• Good to have Micro Frontend Architecture exposure
• Experience with tools like Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, JaCoCo, Karma, Jasmine
• Scripting using Shell, Python, etc
• Must be involved in customer interactions for requirement gathering and solution designing discussions

Function: Technology

Purpose of the Job:

The Developer will be part of a cross-functional Scrum team responsible for designing, developing, and testing diverse features of Airtel Payments Bank agile stream. Payments bank values software engineers who are motivated, creative, passionate and positive. You must be comfortable working closely with others and have solid communication skills. Software engineers who learn quickly and have strong technical skills will thrive at Airtel Payments Bank. You must have considerable experience with object-oriented programming and should be familiar with design patterns, data structures, database and other staples of practical software development

Key Deliverables :

• Research, design, implement and managing software programs
• Test and evaluate new programs
• Identify the areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Determining operational practicality
• Deploying software tools, processes and metrics
• Maintaining and upgrading existing systems

Skills Required:

• Should have experience of working on Core Java/J2EE & OOPS concept
• Should be well versed with Spring/Struts & Apache Camel (OSGI Framework)
• Should have a good understanding of Hibernate and Other ORMs
• Technical design, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Perform development and unit testing, working closely with Business.
• Web Service (SOAP/REST) , Maven
• Build tool such as Jenkins
• Caching Technique(Radis, Hazlecast, aerospike)
• Database Knowledge - Oracle, MySQL

Qualification: Technical background (BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline/experience)