Ruby on Rails (RoR) Developer

About Us

Tradelab Technologies is a leading fintech company building high-performance trading platforms, low-latency systems, and scalable market infrastructure for the global trading and broking ecosystem. We work at the intersection of technology, trading, and innovation.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Python Backend Developer with strong expertise in trading, low-latency systems, or high-frequency trading (HFT). The ideal candidate will design, develop, and optimize backend components powering real-time trading systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend microservices and real-time trading components using Python.
• Build low-latency, high-throughput systems optimized for trading workflows.
• Integrate with market data feeds, order management systems, APIs, and broker/exchange interfaces.
• Write clean, scalable, and high-performance code with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
• Work closely with product, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver robust and scalable platforms.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance.
• Ensure system security, stability, and compliance with industry standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8 years of backend development experience with Python.
• Strong experience in trading/HFT/fintech/market infrastructure is mandatory.
• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Experience working with multithreading, multiprocessing, asynchronous programming.
• Strong knowledge of API development (REST, WebSockets).
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL/MySQL, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience building low-latency and high-availability systems.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, shell scripting, and performance profiling.
• Exposure to FIX protocol, OMS, RMS, or market data systems is a plus.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of exchange trading mechanisms and order lifecycles.
• Prior experience in broker terminals, algo systems, or risk engines.

Why Join Tradelab Technologies?

• Work on cutting-edge trading technologies impacting millions of users.
• Fast-paced, innovation-driven engineering culture.
• Opportunity to build mission-critical systems in fintech and HFT.
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Role Description

The SDE 2/3 will be part of the engineering/development team in Games24x7 Pvt. Ltd. and will be responsible for taking ownership of the core products of the company. The applicant must have good communication, interpersonal, technical and analytical skills in order to take part in the collaborative and cooperative development process that delivers the high quality software we use to provide the best possible playing experience to our players. He/she must be an expert in the Java programming language and needs to be familiar with popular IDEs, tools and scripting languages on the Linux operating system. Familiarity with an RDBMS, preferably PostgreSQL, is essential to succeed in this position.

General Accountabilities/Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• Write clean and efficient code and stay hands-on with it.
• Write high level code, code review, unit testing and deployment.
• Ensure practical application of design principles with a focus on the user experience, usability, template designs, cross browser issues and client server concepts.
• Contribute to the development of project estimates, scheduling, and deliverables.
• Work closely with QA team to determine testing requirements to ensure full coverage and best quality of product.
• Take up the opportunities to mentor and guide junior team members in excelling their jobs.

Requirements:

• B.E. /B.Tech. in Computer Science or MCA from a reputed university.
• 3-12 years of experience in software development, with emphasis on JAVA/J2EE Server side programming.
• Hands on experience in core Java, multithreading, RMI, socket programing, JDBC, NIO, webservices and design patterns.
• Knowledge of distributed system, distributed caching, messaging frameworks, ESB etc.
• Experience in Linux operating system and PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra database
• Additionally, knowledge of HBase, Hadoop and Hive is desirable.
• Familiarity with message queue systems and AMQP and Kafka is desirable.
• Experience as a participant in agile methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• This is not a fullstack requirement, we are looking for a purely backend expert.

We at Wow Labz are always striving to look for exciting problems to solve. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small startup extend its reach, we build from our heart. We’re entrepreneurial and we love new ideas. Fun culture with a team that cares about your development and growth.

You will be a part of Wow Labz’s core development team, building new software and defining standards for our very own blockchain product. You will be involved in defining technical specifications, implementing design patterns and hands-on development. You will be writing modules that all the other developers would use, including libraries, APIs, database/ storage connections and third party integrations. Your diligence and patience to build highly-secured, scalable and high-performance solutions will be most valued.

• Understanding Rust design patterns and writing performant and maintainable code in the language
• Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project’s goals.
• Expanding your existing skill-set, and picking up on various rust dependent frameworks.
• Writing code that other developers use, including libraries, APIs and configurations.
• Building secure and high-performance networked applications.
• Paying close attention to unit-testing and security.
• Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in a remote team environment.

• 1-2 year of core Rust development experience
• 2 or more years of software development experience
• Strong understanding of macros, traits, generics and lifetimes
• Experience with Cargo, including dependency management
• Experience with frameworks like HyperWeb, Mio, Tokio, Rocket and Actix (at least two)
• Experience using the Git Version Control System (VCS)
• Experience with CI tools like Rustfmt, Clippy or Rustfix
• Experience writing Unit Tests using Rustfmt or similar 
• Exposure to performance benchmarking
• Exposure to serverless products like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers 
• Motivated by challenging projects, and you absolutely love developing with Rust.
• Developed multi-threaded software and understand the asynchronous functionalities.

• Experience with blockchain and/or Substrate is a plus
• Experience in Mongodb, MySQL, or Javascript is a plus
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/ Azure/GCP is a plus
• Software architecture and API design knowledge is a plus

• Curious and aware of the latest digital and social media trends
• Extremely self-driven and able to execute in a diligent manner
• Strong relationship-building skills
• Exceptional analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
• Team player that thrives in a collaborative environment
• You can work cross-functionally and collaborative on common goals
• Fluent in English, written and spoken
• Capacity to foster a healthy, stimulating work environment that frequently harnesses teamwork

Responsibilities:

Develop new user-facing features and behavior

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Skills:

Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JavaScript.

Knowledge of WordPress frontend as well as backend. 

Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS. Proficiency in server-side languages such as PHP.

Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL.

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