Senior Developer – Windows Device Driver

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.

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and clarify the requirements and technical issues (including client interaction)
• Support creation of high and low level design
• Development and maintenance of automation code
• Build reusable Business objects as required
• Review the automation implemented code
• Deploy the code to multiple environments phase wise
• Provides regular status updates to clients and management
• Participates in research/design/implementation of appropriate automation tools
• Develop .net libraries using C# /.Net
• Design and develop SQL scripts – Stored procedures, queries, and functions
• Perform unit testing, support systems integration testing and UAT testing
• Raise ticket and co-ordinate with IT team and CS team
• Analyze, estimate and implement special projects
• Effectively manage multiple priorities / assist with various projects as they arise.
• Accurately track, monitor, and report progress and obstacles
• Travel requirements will be modest, working hours must be flexible to deal with international time zone and key process owners located throughout the world.

Education, Experience, & Required Skills:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent is required
• 7+ years of overall IT experience
• 2+ years of overall development experience with leading RPA tool.
• Certified RPA Tool (UiPath, UiPath X, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere) as developer
• Programming experience in Java, .Net, C, C#, .Net, Python
• Sufficient knowledge of RDBMS like ORACLE / MS SQL Server and SQL tools
• Knowledge in developing & understanding excel macros codes.
• Knowledge in Power BI, Excel Macro, web forms, mobile applications are preferable.
• Knowledge of service oriented architecture is preferable.
• Knowledge in Finance & Accounting domain is preferable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Effectively interact with various levels of management.
• Ability to multitask.

Summary

Miko is an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab focused with the mission of Bringing Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Founded by young and dynamic entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Miko is a global deep tech company with offices in US, UK and India, and customer base across 140+ countries. Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home, Miko is the first of its kind "content on subscription" hardware platform for kids powered by patented technology. 

Our flagship products, Miko 3 and Miko Mini (www.miko.ai), are playful companion robots that engage, educate and entertain kids. Their unique approach is to focus on child learning and development through self-initiated contextual topics that encourage conversational learning. It hosts a powerful marketplace for third party content partners to plug their content and connect with Miko users on subscription. 

Miko is powered by a proprietary emotional intelligence and adaptive personality engine, complex conversational and multilingual AI framework, edge and hybrid speech & vision recognition along with an active learning and behavioral analysis engine. All of this is built over an autonomous navigation system, which enables Miko to offer a range of benefits for the user. 

The team at Miko team is an interdisciplinary team consisting of team members from electronics, embedded system, mechanical, industrial, robotics and AI engineering domains, Human Robot Interface designers, UI/UX designers, mobile and cloud software engineers, content creators, artists, mathematicians, neuropsychologists, marketing and sales mavericks, Customer support professionals and knowledge partners. 

The Role

We are looking for a middleware software engineer to join the team. In this role you will be working on designing, developing and optimizing the middleware stack for current as well as new companion robot products.

Work Experience & Qualifications

2 years or higher industry experience in the Software domain. No restrictions on degree/qualifications; only skills matter. (* for Junior role)

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing software on the product to enhance current functionality and add new features. Lead the technical delivery of assigned tasks/projects.
• Consistent coordination and collaboration with the Backend, AI, Product and QA team for efficient development cycles and testing for new features and improvements.
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams. Demonstrate strong ambiguity resolution skills to be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Expertise in C/C++ and Java
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with implementing various communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART
• Experience working on Embedded Linux OS and Android
• Demonstrated experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with IPC including socket programming
• Should have hands on experience and thorough knowledge in STL, BOOST understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with using Git as a version control system
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Do you have what it takes?

·      Proficient in C, C++ development, OS concepts, Data Structures, Distributed computing, and Algorithms.

·      Actively engaged in projects related to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).

·      Excellent problem-solving capability with strong fundamentals in Computer Science.

·      Highly proficient in data structures and algorithms.

·      Ability to pick up new technologies rapidly to convert specifications to low level design.

·      Ability to clearly communicate the intent and approach when producing a code design document.

How can you contribute to our success?

·      Develop frontend as well as backend components for delivering product on cloud platforms.

·      Participate in activities that lead up to the code design. This may include activities such as developing prototypes, proof of concept, compare pros and cons of various implementation choices being considered and recommending the most appropriate one.

·      Mentor and influence junior developers to adhere to good coding standards and become quality conscious.

·      Review critical pieces of code that are developed as per this code design.

·      Ensure that the code being delivered is of the highest quality.

·      Ensure appropriate unit tests and functional as well as non-functional tests are considered.

·      Conceptualize and work towards building processes, methodology, and tools to improve team’s ability to deliver high quality software. 

Software Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge set to fetch data from multiple online sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it
• Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources on the web and know exactly how, when, and which data to scrap, parse and store
• We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Desired Candidate Profile

• At Least 1-2 years of experience
• Strong coding experience in Python (knowledge of Javascripts is a plus)
• Strong knowledge of scraping frameworks in Python (Request, Beautiful Soup)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge in Version Control tools like GIT.
• Good understanding and hands-on with scheduling and managing tasks with cron.

Nice to have:

• Experience of having worked with elastic search
• Experience with multi-processing, multi-threading, and AWS/Azure is a plus
• Experience with web crawling is a plus
• Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS,etc as well as cloud solutions like Docker,Lambda, etc
• Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

Primary Duties

• Build a broad knowledge across various systems and processes via knowledge transfer and capture any missing information on the wiki

• Gather software requirements by talking to various stakeholders and document them

• Implement software solutions after discussing the requirements and taking direction from the Technical lead and talking to other colleagues within and outside the team

• Provide necessary effort and time estimates for tasks to aid scheduling and prioritization

• Provide necessary 3rd line support to the Operations teams including software fixes as needed

• Work on any BAU development activity including on-boarding new data sets and delivering new markets into the system

• Work with external vendors from time to time to gather necessary requirements for new data or changes to existing data specifications

• Maintain pro-active communication with relevant stakeholders and keep them updated on progress

General

• Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
• All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 4+ years’ experience of programming in Java.
• 4+ years’ experience working with SQL including complex queries, stored procedures, views, database design and solid understanding of database concepts (preferably SQL Server)
• Experience of both Linux and Windows environments, scripting and tools
• Willing to carry out operational data tasks alongside developing new solutions
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work
• Excellent communication skills

Beneficial

• Experience working with Cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Experience in handling financial data sets and familiarity with financial instruments (equities, futures, FX)
• Experience working with data pipelines and building ETL solutions
• Experience working with tools like Flink, Kafka and Tableau

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher.
• A degree with mathematical and computing content (e.g. Computer Science, Maths, Physics)

• We are one of the fastest-growing game development companies with headquarters in
• Bangalore, India. Since our inception in 2017, we have carved a niche in the gaming industry by our highly creative and expert approach to game design, artwork and development. Our two games, ‘Ludo STAR’ and ‘Parchisi STAR’ have already reached 50 million global downloads.
• We have a grand vision of being the “Best Game Developing Company” in the world. We are vastly committed to developing visually appealing and technically advanced games for diverse platforms and game applications that appeal to all ages.
• We offer an autonomous studio consisting of self-motivated teams in a fast decision-making
• environment, allowing you to be truly impactful and develop professionally.
• It’s an exciting time to come aboard, career experience as a lead developer working with leadership teams.