Software Engineer -Senior Role

Location: Bengalore, India, Exp: 3-5 Yrs

Backend Developer (Golang) - Trading & Fintech

About Us:

Tradelab Technologies Pvt Ltd is not for those seeking comfort—we are for those hungry to make a mark in the trading and fintech industry. If you are looking for just another backend role, this isn’t it. We want risk-takers, relentless learners, and those who find joy in pushing their limits every day. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and have a deep passion for performance driven backend systems, we want you.

What we expect:

 You should already be exceptional at Golang. If you need hand-holding, this isn’t the place for you.

 You thrive on challenges, not on perks or financial rewards.

 You measure success by your own growth, not external validation.

 Taking calculated risks excites you—you’re here to build, break, and learn.

 You don’t clock in for a paycheck; you clock in to outperform yourself in a high-frequency trading environment.

 You understand the stakes—milliseconds can make or break trades, and precision is everything.

What you will do:

 Develop and optimize high-performance backend systems in Golang for trading platforms and financial services.

 Architect low-latency, high-throughput microservices that push the boundaries ofspeed and efficiency.

 Build event-driven, fault-tolerant systems that can handle massive real-time data streams.

 Own your work—no babysitting, no micromanagement.

 Work alongside equally driven engineers who expect nothing less than brilliance.

Must have skills:

 Learn faster than you ever thought possible.

 Proven expertise in Golang (if you need to prove yourself, this isn’t the role for you).

 Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and system design.

 Experience with Trading, market data processing, or low-latency systems.

 Strong knowledge of distributed systems, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and real-time processing.

 Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

 A portfolio of work that speaks louder than a resume.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

 Past experience in fintech, trading systems, or algorithmic trading.

 Contributions to open-source Golang projects.

 A history of building something impactful from scratch.

 Understanding of FIX protocol, WebSockets, and streaming APIs.

Why Join Us?

 Work with a team that expects and delivers excellence.

 A culture where risk-taking is rewarded, and complacency is not.

 Limitless opportunities for growth—if you can handle the pace.

 A place where learning is currency, and outperformance is the only metric that matters.

The opportunity to build systems that move markets, execute trades in microseconds, and redefine fintech. This isn’t just a job—it’s a proving ground. Ready to take the leap? Apply now.

About Gyaan:

Gyaan empowers Go-To-Market teams to ascend to new heights in their sales performance, unlocking boundless opportunities for growth. We're passionate about helping sales teams excel beyond expectations. Our pride lies in assembling an unparalleled team and crafting a crucial solution that becomes an indispensable tool for our users. With Gyaan, sales excellence becomes an attainable reality.

About the Job:

Gyaan is seeking an experienced backend developer with expertise in Python, Django, AWS, and Redis to join our dynamic team! As a backend developer, you will be responsible for building responsive and scalable applications using Python, Django, and associated technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience programming in Python, Django
• Good understanding of CI/CD tools (Github Action, Gitlab CI) in a SaaS environment.
• Experience in building and running modern full-stack cloud applications using public cloud technologies such as AWS/
• Proficiency with at least one relational database system like MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with unit and integration testing.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex problems across different levels of the organization and to customers.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, software design lifecycle, and design patterns.
• Detail-oriented mindset to identify and rectify errors in code or product development workflow.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and concepts quickly, as the "cloud-native" field evolves rapidly.

Must Have Skills:

• Python
• Django Framework
• AWS
• Redis
• Database Management

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

If you are passionate about solving problems and have the required qualifications, we want to hear from you! You must be an excellent verbal and written communicator, enjoy collaborating with others, and welcome discussing a plan upfront. We offer a competitive salary, flexible work hours, and a dynamic work environment.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

• Assist in project scoping and interact with users to gather requirements
• Must have skills: Java,Spring,SQL,Web App development
• Produce well-planned, well-structured, high-quality codes that have been independently unit tested
• Design, develop, implement and maintain multi-tier web based applications using Java, J2EE, Struts, MVC, Weblogic, XML, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle, to support business requirements (angular will be advantage)
• Participate and contribute actively in the complete software development lifecycle, including performance analysis, design, development, and testing
• Ensure well designed, testable, efficient codes by performing unit testing with test cases and through rigorous integration testing of the entire application
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Support users by developing design documentation and assistance tools
• Interact regularly with internal and external teams to address technical issues and provide appropriate solutions through debugging, research, and investigation
• Develop configuration tools for internal teams to further automate programming tasks that are repetitive
• Engage in and lead application performance tuning

• Graduate/Post Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in Java development, application of standard software development principles and designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web frameworks using MVC
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Able to respond to technical queries / requests from team members and customers
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc.)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Oracle, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience with test-driven development

Skills: 

Strong knowledge of MYSQL/PostGreSQL; Knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, Couch DB is preferred. 

Expertise in application development, databases, version control, and deployment. Skill - Node.js, 

Experience of AWS or GCP - especially services such as Lambda or google app engine 

Solid grasp of Service-oriented architecture. Web Services implementation on a medium to large scale 

Solid understanding of scaling mobile app services. Having worked the backend of an Android app is preferred 

Culture: 

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision 

Happy to deal with, and contribute to, an environment of daily builds Has worked in small teams, is versatile. Work within short timelines and be receptive to business needs. Can work closely with Digital, Product, Operations teams. 

Desirable Social Attributes: 

Has contributed to one or more Open Source projects through own initiative. Has provided a high quality answer to a question posted on StackOverflow. 

Role: 

As a Software Developer who would work independently, the candidate is expected actively acquire problems and deliver solutions as well as guide the team technically. Such a problem solver would obviously be a self starter with a high level of curiosity rather than a programming language specialist. 

He/she would be required to produce software of the highest quality through self-discipline, clear and engaged communication, and attention to detail. The role would include custom web application development on (most typically on Node.js and PHP/Python), databases (most typically MySql and MongoDb), version control (github), testing (necessarily through test scripts written before code is written), daily builds and eventual deployment onto AWS or GCP. 

Attributes of the ideal candidate: 

Highly productive software developer with the proven aptitude to understand and apply technology 

Determination to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation 

Always learning, evolving, and sharing what you know 

Inspired by complex, varied problems and rapid change 

Open-minded, flexible, and curious about new and better ideas

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.