
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of experience with software development, preferably in Agile environment.
- Advanced knowledge of in software development tools, programming languages, databases, and environments, including but not limited to:
- Python 3.x, Django, functional Python, procedural Python, object oriented Python, Asynchronous Design, Micro Services, memcache, REDIS, Celery, ElastiSearch, RESTful web services, Relational (Oracle & MySQL) and Non-Relational (NOSQL & DynamoDB) databases, AWS.

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- 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
🚀 We're Hiring — Backend Developer (3–5 Yrs Exp)
📍 Location: Coimbatore / Remote (India)
⏱ Notice: Immediate
🔧 What You'll Do:
• Build and maintain scalable REST APIs
• Work with Django/Flask on production-grade systems
• Manage databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• Implement caching (Redis) & queuing (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
• Deploy & manage services using Docker
• Work on AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate via Git, CI/CD pipelines
✅ You Should Have:
• 3–5 years of hands-on Python backend experience
• Strong grasp of data structures & design patterns
• Comfort with Linux & version control workflows
• Good communication & team collaboration skills
⭐ Bonus Points:
• Experience with LLM integrations or RAG pipelines
• Familiarity with Vector DBs (Pinecone/ChromaDB)
• Prior startup or fast-paced environment experience
Interested? Drop your resume or refer someone who'd be a great fit! 💼
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with XML-based web services (SOAP, REST).
- Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) for XML data storage.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN).
- Understanding of JSON and other data interchange formats.
- Certifications in XML technologies are a plus.
As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.
If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!
What You'll Do:
- Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
- Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
- Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
- Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
- Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
- Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
- Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
- Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.
What You'll Need:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
- Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
- Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
- Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
- Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
- Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
- Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)
- Expertise in at least one of the following:
- Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology
- Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached
- Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase
- Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
- Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
- Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
- Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
- Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
- Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
- 2-5 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related
frameworks
- Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
- Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
- Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
- Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda,
API Gateway, SQS, etc
- Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end
infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization
schemes.
- Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with
millisecond response times
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor
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- Experience with ElasticSearch, Puppeteer
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Role- Software Development Engineer-2
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
- You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
- You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
- You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
- Roles & Responsibilities
- You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
- You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
- You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
- You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
- You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
- You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
- You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
- You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
- You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
- Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
- Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
About Amazon.com
“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.
Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.
We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
About Amazon India
Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.
We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.
We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.
Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.
* You are a Coder, a Doer. YOU BELIEVE in actions ( *In short - You are less about Gyan and more about Samadhan* )
* YOU BELIEVE in software delivery with quality
* If you are passionate about technology, engineering best practices and using them to solve real and complex business problems.
* Badly written code or bad architecture irritates you the most.
* YOU BELIEVE in "Proof of the pudding is in the eating" so you are always tinkering and exploring new technologies
* YOU BELIEVE in building things the right way, invest in developer productivity and follow proven engineering practices to ensure that you spend the maximum amount of time working on problems that matter.
* Since work is a big part of your life, YOU BELIEVE in sharing knowledge and of course have fun in the process (company outings, team sports, lunches, etc)
You'll be expected to
1. Design highly scalable, testable code and follow Test Driven Development methodology - Able to write well organised, modularised code with test cases.
* Apart from writing code *
1. Take ownership of new products/features.
2. Contribute to the design and architecture of our backend APIs and deployment of microservices
3. Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and maintain the overall quality of our codebase.
4. Mentor and assist younger members of the team and perform code reviews.
5. Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value.
Qualifications
* Will prefer a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
* Development experience with Java is a must; If you know Python and Go Programming Language that's great
* Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases with an insight into various data modelling use cases
* Sound with data structures and algorithms and have a good understanding of design patterns, software architectures
* Unquenching thirst to learn new technologies.
* Experience with CI/CD is a plus
What FreightFox gives you
- A high energy environment where you’ll be working alongside people who want to bring innovative tech solutions in the Indian landscape. Make in India for India.
- A chance to become a part of the early team of a budding start-up and help shape its growth path.
- Competitive Package
- Stocks - Be part of the early-stage startup and they benefit financially from the company’s growth
About FreightFox
We are a young and ambitious technology start-up in the Indian B2B Logistics space. Our aim is to change the future of freight in India by leveraging tech and data to deliver new and exciting possibilities in this space.
We’ve cautiously cultivated an environment where customers come first, where we validate our hypothesis first before writing even a single line of code, where our customers and prospects are our best advisors and where we truly believe that insights from data are critical to steering a business in the right direction.
We have raised $300K seed fund from Angel Investors in Dec 2020
About the work from home job/internship
1. Work on backend development
2. Work on application and web development and api development
3. Work on programming languages like JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, Java
4. Work on modern JS frameworks such as React.js, Node.js, and Angular.js
5. Work to implement server-side or application logic, develop databases, and design architectures











