Python Developer

Mandatory Skill set : C++ and Python - UNIX- Database - SQL or Postgres

Developer Role EXP : 3 to 5yrs

Location : Bangalore /Chennai/Hyderabad

1. Strong proficiency in C++ , with fair knowledge of the language specification (Telecom experience is preferred). 

2. Proficient understanding of standard template library (STL): algorithms, containers, functions, and iterators 

3. Must have experience on Unix platforms, should possess shell scripting skills.

4. Knowledge on compilers(gcc, g) and debugger (dbx). Knowledge of libraries and linking. 

5. Good understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git, CVS etc.)

6. Able to write and understand python scripts (both python2 and python3)

7. Handson with logic implementation in python and should be familiar with list comprehension and is comfortable in integrating it with C++ and Unix scripts

8. Able to implement multithreading in both C++ and Python environment.

9. Familiar with Postgres SQL. 

C++ developer with Python as secondary - 3 to 4 yrs exp / should be CW.

About us

Fisdom is one of the largest wealthtech platforms that allows investors to manage their wealth in an intuitive and seamless manner. Fisdom has a suite of products and services that takes care of every wealth requirement that an individual would have. This includes Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, Private Wealth, Tax Filing, and Pension funds

Fisdom has a B2C app and also an award-winning B2B2C distribution model where we have partnered with 15 of the largest banks in India such as Indian Bank and UCO Bank to provide wealth products to their customers. In our bank-led distribution model, our SDKs are integrated seamlessly into the bank’s mobile banking and internet banking application. Fisdom is the first wealthtech company in the country to launch a stock broking product for customers of a PSU bank.

The company is breaking down barriers by enabling access to wealth management to underserved customers. All our partners combined have a combined user base of more than 50 crore customers. This makes us uniquely placed to disrupt the wealthtech space which we believe is in its infancy in India in terms of wider adoption.

Where are we now and where are we heading towards

Founded by veteran VC-turned entrepreneur Subramanya SV(Subu) and former investment 

banker Anand Dalmia, Fisdom is backed by PayU (Naspers), Quona Capital, and Saama Capital; with $37million of total funds raised so far. Fisdom is known for its revenue and profitability focussed approach towards sustainable business.

Fisdom is the No.1 company in India in the B2B2C wealthtech space and one of the most admired companies in the fintech ecosystem for our business model. We look forward to growing the leadership position by staying focussed on product and technology innovation. 

Our technology team

Today we are a 60-member strong technology team. Everyone in the team is a hands-on engineer, including the team leads and managers. We take pride in being product engineers and we believe ‌engineers are fundamentally problem solvers first. Our culture binds us together as one cohesive unit. We stress on engineering excellence and strive to become a high talent density team. Some ‌values that we preach and practice include:

• Individual ownership and collective responsibility
• Focus on continuous learning and constant improvement in every aspect of engineering and product
• Cheer for openness, inclusivity and transparency.
• Merit-based growth

Key Responsibilities

• Write code, build prototypes and resolve issues.
• Write and review unit test cases.
• Review code & designs for both oneself and team members
• Defining and building microservices
• Building systems with positive business outcome
• Tracking module health, usage & behaviour tracking.

Key Skills

• An engineer with at least 1-3 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
• Must have a penchant for good API design.
• Must be a stickler for good, clear and secure coding.
• Must have built and released APIs in production.
• Experience in working with RDBMS & NoSQL databases.
• Working knowledge of GCP, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider.
• Aggressive problem diagnosis & creative problem solving skills.
• Communication skills, to speak to developers across the world

Why join us and where?

We're a small but high performing engineering team. We recognize that the work we do impacts the lives of hundreds and thousands of people. Your work will contribute significantly to our mission. We pay competitive compensation and performance bonuses. We provide a high energy work environment and you are encouraged to play around new technology and self-learning. You will be based out of Bangalore.

Job Responsibilities:

● Design, test, and build scalable backend python services

● Closely collaborate with marketing and product teams to build innovative, robust, and easy-to-use features that serve.

● Developing high-quality code based on detailed designs that cater to the product requirements.

● Responsible for troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Required Skills:

● Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

● Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.

● Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+, and REST APIs.

● Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment

● Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently

● True love for technology and what you do

● Maniacal attention to detail

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

Must Have:

• Thorough experience (Sr. Developer: 3+ years) in core python as well as the Django framework.
• Deep understanding of designing and implementing REST web services/APIs.
• Ability to address authentication and security constraints efficiently.
• Knowledge about Amazon web services and ability to integrate it.
• Ability to write complex python utility scripts.
• Ability to deliver design documentations whenever needed.
• Knowledge of Version Control using SVN/GIT.
• Ability to analyse, debug and resolve basic to complex problems on-demand (independently).

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge with microservice architecture is a BIG plus.
• Knowledge of the docker platform to serve the applications in docker containers and being able to use docker compose will be a plus.
• Leadership and Time Management skills.

PYTHON, SQL, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas

• Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.

• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
• Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.

• Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System

• Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
• Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

We are looking to hire a Full-time, Remote (India) Backend engineer with a flair for writing full stack code to help create a SAAS product from the ground up in a niche industry.
This will be the v2.0 of an existing legacy platform with paying customers. This position is within the first few hires in the founding team of the revamped company.
We are on a mission to build a truly world class product and deliver at high speeds with high quality.

Read on and apply for the job if you are a doer, likes no BS, think you're competent enough to get things done, wants some quiet time every day, wants to make a difference, values work life balance and enjoy life outside work.

Experience -

At least 3 to 4 years building scalable SAAS applications in the cloud. It would be great to showcase anything progressive. Education from premier institutions, git contributions, tech blogs, volunteering, pet projects, etc.

Responsibilities -
- Architect, write, deploy and own the (SAAS) product from a technical standpoint working closely with other devs on the team
- Create and deliver the product end-to-end all the way to the user
- Write highly performant code and continuously measure performance and make the application better based on benchmarks
- Debug production issues and keep the application quality high always
- Assist with hiring more people when the team grows
- Pick up any appropriate work as in any early-stage company

General Skills Needed -

- Should be able to build and deploy multi-tenant SAAS applications end to end
- Need to have a technology-agnostic mindset. Should be able to easily pick up any new technology based on the use case.
- Should be an expert software craftsman/craftswoman. Must own the code and be proud of what you build.
- Write well thought out, well-tested code with extensive unit tests and integration tests so that the addition of future features is easy.
- Must know cloud deployment concepts and be comfortable creating and maintaining cost-effective cloud deployment strategies. AWS experience highly preferred.
- Must be able to design and architect simple, market-tested yet highly scalable solutions
- Must be able to quickly iterate and produce working software at a high speed. Must not be shy to scrap and rebuild when there is a need
- Must be appreciative of documentation and write well-documented code and technical documentation alongside

Technical Skills Needed -
- Expert level knowledge in Python and Django. We are a Python/Django/Javascript/ReactJs/AWS shop.
- Must have good knowledge/experience in creating cost-efficient and scalable cloud deployments (AWS preferred)
- Must have good knowledge of industry-standard design patterns and tools
- Must have a good understanding of various frameworks on authentication and authorization, billing and metrics
- Some experience in data analytics and reporting - creating reports based on the data collected and deliver to the frontend
- Expertise with Frameworks

1. Django, or similar backend frameworks
2. PostgreSQL, MySQL, any NoSQL or other database technology

Perks -

- Opportunity to build a SAAS product from the ground up. Lots of challenges to tackle on
- Work remotely from anywhere within India
- Emphasis on work-life balance and professional development
- Flexible work hours and a lot of autonomy
- Work with a very informal team collaborating over slack. No meaningless meetings. Focus on getting things done and not hours put in
- Opportunity to grow the team with the company
- Market salary and a yearly bonus outside the salary based on company + individual performance
- Generous PTO plan

Hands -on experience with the following technologies is needed:

1. Good Knowledge of Python & Django Framework.
2. Experience in Git or any Version control systems.
3. Experience in SQL Databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
4. Knowledge of NoSQL Databases like Mongodb.
5. Worked on Django based live projects.
6. To implement microservices using Django rest framework.
7. Handling various technical aspects like coding of modules using the given design specifications
8. Debugging and fixing the defects as well as analyzing its root cause.
9. Deployment(AWS) and monitoring of the live project.
10. Mentoring junior developers.

Knowledge/Experience of AWS will be a big plus

Preferred Qualifications: 
B-Tech-IT/B-Tech -CSE/BCA or any degree in the relevant field

Required Experience: 
3 – 6 Years

We are actively seeking software development engineers who are interested in designing robust trading systems and refining programs to efficiently manage various types of financial market data that facilitate our quantitative investment research. By designing and improving the firm's internal applications, the SDE will play a key role in expanding the firm's trading capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Management & scaling up existing infrastructure for high-frequency market data capture.
• Develop a scalable and consistent data handling infrastructure for the above data to facilitate efficient backtesting of quantitative investment strategies.
• Perform R& D; to build a software platform in Python for backtesting various kind of investment strategies using the above databases.
• This will involve studying the strategy development process and performance evaluation metrics.
• Develop autopilot risk-management systems to monitor live performance of the Portfolio.
• Improve the existing algorithms to achieve better execution price and reduce the latency.

Requirements:

Our ideal candidate would have graduated with a degree in computer science from a top university with 1-3 years industry experience, along with:

• High Level of proficiency in Python and good knowledge of Matlab/C++/C#.
• Past experience in dealing with large datasets and Knowledge of database administration and network programming will be a plus.
• Well-versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities.
• A keen interest in learning about the financial markets.