Big Data Lead

Midas is a fintech company that specializes in building state-of-the-art technological solutions for algorithmic trading, investments, and analytics for global financial markets. Headquartered in Mumbai, Midas aims to establish a strong presence in GIFT City (Gandhinagar), London, New York, and Singapore in the near future.

Our team consists of highly motivated and skilled individuals who serve sophisticated clients across various segments, including affluent individuals, high-net-worth individuals, ultra-high net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutions. We offer an excellent platform for personal and professional development within a highly committed and collaborative team in a mission-driven and results-oriented environment.

1. The ideal candidate should possess expert-level knowledge in technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Node JS, MongoDB, Redis, Linux servers, and networking protocols (TCP and UDP). This includes understanding how to use these technologies to develop and deploy backend systems, as well as troubleshooting and optimizing them.
2. Proficient in automation technology, the candidate should be able to optimize existing infrastructure, identify and implement design patterns, and understand data structures and algorithms. This includes an ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies that can improve the performance and scalability of the system.
3. The candidate should be familiar with version control and project management tools such as GIT, JIRA, etc. and be able to use them effectively to manage and collaborate on code development.
4. Strong understanding of multithreading and multiprocessing concepts, and the ability to make tweaks and optimizations in similar domains for the purpose of improving performance and scalability.
5. Understanding of clustering and load balancing, including the ability to design and implement solutions that can improve the availability and scalability of the system.
6. Understanding of cyber security protocols and their application in the development and deployment of backend systems. This includes knowledge of best practices for securing systems, as well as the ability to identify and mitigate potential security threats.
7. Ability to implement CI/CD pipelines when needed. This includes an understanding of the various steps involved in creating, testing, and deploying code, as well as knowledge of the tools and technologies used to automate these processes.
8. Familiarity with tools such as NGINX or HAProxy and understanding how they can be used to improve the performance and scalability of the system.
9. Eagerness to learn and upgrade skills as per the demands of the product. This includes an ability to stay current with new technologies and best practices in the field, as well as a willingness to continuously improve one's own skills.
10. Proven experience in the industry and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate should have a solid understanding of the financial markets and the technology used to support them.
11. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team. The candidate should be able to identify and solve complex problems and work effectively with others to achieve common goals.
12. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. The candidate should be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and work well in a team environment.

• Having around 8+ years of Experience in IT industry in Software Development.
• Sound knowledge in Core Java
• Having work experience in SDN/NFV, Orchestration
• Having work experience in Open source and Open Flow Controller(SDN).
• Experience in Aglie methodology.
• Good Knowledge on MySQL ,Postgresql or any Timeseries DB,Kafka, Zookeeper
• Good Knowledge on ONOS, ODL (OpenDaylight) OpenKilda,Mininet.
• Having work experience in MVT/MVC architecture.
• Having good knowledge networks, devices, service modeling and automation in systems.
• Having work experience on API & JSON implémentation.
• Knowledge in OpenStack,Ansible, Shellscript, Chef, Puppet,
• Good Understanding of Software Development (i.e. SDLC)
• Good team player enthusiastic and quick learner
• Good interpersonal skill, commitment, result oriented with a quest and learn new technologies and understanding challenging tasks
• Knowledge in AWS, AZURE Cloud

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.

• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE

• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development

• Experience building Web/Mobile applications

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Unit and Integration testing experience

• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices

• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.

• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 Roles and Responsibility :

• Lead and build the team in development
• Participate in the technical design of projects we made for our Clients
• Supervise and write efficient and reliable code; use best practices with our team
• Organize and participate code reviews
• Setup unit and integration tests
• Architecture and design of reusable server components
• Developing high performing REST APIs for application functionality
• Develop and maintain scalable server architecture serving millions of users every day.
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Must Have Skill Sets :

• Should have 5+ years of experience in Mobile/web server and application development
• Mandatory: Strong development skills in Python ,Node.js, Typescript, Django Rest Framework, Linux, MongoDB
• Experience with client technologies like JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, bootstrap, Angulars, React, Android App a plus
• Strong knowledge of data structures and computer fundamentals
• An ability to refract and understand large and separate code bases
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Forward-looking on potential technology choices
• Experience in building highly scalable, reliable systems
• Team handling experience.
  
  
  

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Expert in Python with experience on Django.
• Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
• Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
• Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
• Experience with swagger io module to expose API
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
• Good understanding of Linux OS.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS Kinesis
• Web Sockets
• RAbbitMQ
• AWS Cloud formation