Software Engineer

We are building a team whose area of focus will be web GUI development. This will be a horizontal team that will specialize in GUI development and will build GUIs for all our products. Our GUI development platform is a proprietary tool. It has an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which comes with a rich library of widgets. It allows you to design the web page without having to go into details of the HTML/CSS, by using a drag and drop philosophy. Once a widget is in place on a page, one can define the database interactions of the widgets by defining the underlying table structure and SQL queries. In addition to SQL & database knowledge, the work also involves data manipulation using Java programming. Query performance and Java code performance and optimization will be very essential for work. So we are looking for good programmers with UI + Java + SQL background who are keen to take up GUI development as a specialization.

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced software engineer to join our team at Mumbai. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to take ownership of developing user facing applications and features in an agile manner. You will design and implement scalable and performant front-end solutions from scratch, while also taking a hard look at the existing ones.

What you will do at QI?

• Design, develop and deliver new user-facing apps and feature and improve existing ones
• Take ownership of product(s), and contribute to dev cycles and sprints planning
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX design, share inputs with other teams including product, design and QA
• Optimize applications for performance, user experience and SEO
• Build reusable code and libraries. Contribute to open source projects.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies with an eye of constantly adapting and improving our systems and methods.

Basic Job requirements

• 2 years + work experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in HTML5, CSS, DOM and front-end tooling ecosystem (Gulp,Grunt, Webpack)
• Excellent concepts and command over JavaScript
• Strong concepts and commercial experience in Vue.js
• Solid foundation in software development ( algorithm design, data structure, SDLC)
• Good concepts of unit testing and automation testing for UI components
• Good understanding of web app performance including Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

Location - Remote 

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of REST API and relational databases
• Basic understanding of browser internals
• Familiarity with web components and shadow DOM
• Exposure to progressive web app design.

About QuantInsti®

QuantInsti® was started in 2010, by the founders from iRage – a leading quant and algo trading firm in India.  From its early days focused on bridging the industry knowledge gap in the field of high-frequency trading, we have come a long way in the last decade. Today, we have a user base from 180+ countries with a growth rate much over 50% year-on-year.

At QuantInsti®, we swear by our goal of revolutionizing the way people approach the financial markets by empowering individuals and institutions with bleeding edge education and technologies. We offer high quality https://www.quantinsti.com/epat">learning experience and best-in-class https://quantra.quantinsti.com/">courses geared towards a global audience in quantitative trading and investing. Our in-house developed technology aims to bring institutional grade tools and https://quantra-blueshift.quantinsti.com/">platforms to democratize systematic and quantitative trading.

We achieve this by putting technology at the core of our business. We have a complex ecosystem of microservices and applications deployed over a fully cloud-based infrastructure. Our tech stack includes Node.js, Vue.js, Python and Docker. The team is driven by user experience, with strong focus on delivering scalable software solutions to complex and evolving business goals.

Why you should join us?

At QuantInsti, we work at the cutting edge of FinTech and EdTech offerings. We work with the newest technologies with a goal of delivering best experience to our users in a scalable manner, with high-performance and availability. If you love to be challenged intellectually, rest assured we have plenty of them for you. We follow an open and free work culture, where you are encouraged to ask questions, learn and teach. We offer a fast-paced environment where you take ownership of what you design and deliver. If you are looking for a move where you will find a reason to wake up every morning and rush to work, come join us.

We are seeking a very talented remote/onsite Senior Software Engineer, proficient in front-end and backend development. We prefer to rapidly develop with frequent releases and aim to provide amazing experiences for our end users.

Each engineer is treated as a true owner, with a high degree of ownership and autonomy. We are looking for a product minded, independent thinker -- not someone whose hand we will hold to make product decisions. We aim for a lean, fast-moving team that prefers to avoid meetings and focus 100% on driving impact.

Responsibilities:

• * Work with cutting-edge front-end and back-end technologies in designing, building, and maintaining performance, responsiveness, and delightful experiences for our customers.
• * Write high-quality front-end & back-end code, complete with automated unit and integration tests, as well as participate in code reviews.
• * Partner with product, marketing, and customer success to develop a highly interactive web application that fosters innovation.
• * Collaborate with other Software Engineers to evaluate and recommend new technologies, and help to continuously modernize and mature our front-end implementations and best practices.

Ideal Candidates Will Have:

• * Minimum of 4 years' experience in fast-paced, nimble teams building software at scale
• * Possesses deep understanding of JavaScript beyond libraries or frameworks (i.e. Core JS, not just jQuery or Angular).
• * A proven ability to deliver an amazing user experience.
• * Have detailed knowledge of responsive CSS, the box model, semantic markup, and HTML5.
• * An appreciation for good design, and the desire to translate visual ideas into working, beautiful code.
• * Experience in building scalable solutions with a high level of code quality through automated tests and good architecture.
• * Ability to solve complex data problems and think of best ways to present these to users.
• * Strong team player with excellent communication skills and high degree of ownership and drive.

Candidates with varying backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We do not require prior knowledge of technologies in our stack, only a desire to learn them.

1. Strong fundamentals OOPS concepts, Exception Handling, Coding Standards, Logging

2. Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular. 

3. Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

4. Communicating with external web services and processing data

5. Experience with offline storage threading and performance tuning

6. Review code and maintain the code quality and suggest best practices

7. Knowledge and experience on data science and programming languages

8. Demonstrable abilities to optimize code. Strong analytical skills for effective problem solving