
About SteelEye
SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore and Paris, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability. The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses. We are looking to hire a seasoned SRE to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.
Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.
What you’ll do
- Deliver plugins for our Python-based ETL pipelines.
- Deliver Python microservices for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Implement algorithms to analyse large data sets.
- Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
- Deal with challenges associated with handling large volumes of data.
- Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
- Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
- Thrive in an environment that uses AWS and Elasticsearch extensively.
- Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
- Champion best development practices and provide mentorship.
What we’re looking for
- Experience in o Python 3.
- o Python libraries used for data (such as pandas, numpy).
- o AWS.
- o Elasticsearch.
- o Performance tuning.
- o Object Oriented Design and Modelling.
- o Delivering complex software, ideally in a FinTech setting.
- o CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of design patterns.
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.
About SteelEye Culture
- Work from home until you are vaccinated against COVID-19
- Top of the line health insurance • Order discounted meals every day from a dedicated portal
- Fair and simple salary structure
- 30+ holidays in a year
- Fresh fruits every day
- Centrally located. 5 mins to the nearest metro station (MG Road)
- Measured on output and not input

About SteelEye
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Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability. The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses.
We are a vibrant, fun and exciting group of people that share a passion for technology and data. If you have what it takes to become a part of the SteelEye family, you have come to the right place. This is where you will find information about our people, culture and our current job opportunities.
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have a minimum 4+ years of experience in backend software development.
Mandatory (Experience 2) -Must have 4+ years of experience in backend development using Python (Highly preferred), Java, or Node.js.
Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have experience with Cloud platforms like AWS (highly preferred), gcp or azure
Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Experience in any databases - MySQL / PostgreSQL / Postgres / Oracle / SQL Server / DB2 / SQL / MongoDB / Ne
What’s the opportunity?
Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?
We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.
If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.
Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.
About you:
● 3- 5 years of experience
● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol
● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub
● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management
Nice to have:
● Familiarity with AWS
What’s in it for me?
● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.
● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.
● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.
● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more
What would make you a good fit?
- You’re both relentless and kind, and don’t see these as being mutually exclusive
- You have a self-directed learning style, an insatiable curiosity, and a hands-on execution mindset
- You have deep experience working with product and engineering teams to launch backend services that power end-user applications
- You have deep experience in Python and the related tools and frameworks
- You have deep experience working with large datasets and relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL
- You have experience with microservices architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes
- You continuously raise the bar on development practices such as code quality tools, unit testing coverage, build tools, etc.
- You obsess about correctness, DRY development, reducing cognitive complexity, and performance
- You have excellent writing and speaking skills with a talent for applying technical solutions to customer problem statements
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building RESTful services
- 2+ years of experience in Django Rest Framework, Flask, and/or FastAPI
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and Postgres to manage and analyze data
- Expert level skills using a debugging tool and developing unit tests
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture
- Prior startup experience and enjoy taking on difficult challenges and broad responsibilities
- Track-record of delivering reliable and scalable RESTful services from requirements to production
- You’ve partnered with devops to deliver high-performant backend solutions to production
- You naturally think quantitatively about problems and work backward from a customer outcome
What’ll make you stand out (but not required)
- Terraform and AWS experience
- Experience creating technical design documents
- You have a strong connection to finance teams or closely related domains, the challenges they face, and deep appreciation for their aspirations
We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join the Engineering team based out of Gurgaon. We provide users with the opportunity to invest in gold, government bonds, crypto currencies and other investment products to grow their savings.
We are constantly looking to improve the investment experience and educate users about
growth opportunities. In each release, we aim to make pluang more useful for our users and add features to ensure state of the art security & reliability. Our users trust us with their hard-earned money and we take it very seriously. We consistently strive to deliver top-quality.
You will be working with a team of highly-motivated, young & dynamic teams of engineers & reporting to the Engineering Lead.
Position Responsibilities
● Be honest, reliable & consistent
● Write efficient & clean code
● Have a strong sense of ownership
● Be a part of development & maintenance of Pluang web app, Operations dashboard and other 3rd party products we own
● Contribute to improving the quality of engineering process & engineering culture
Position Requirements
- Strong in data structure and algorithms
- Experience in Java, Express, API Design & DOM
- Understanding of component based design or other design patterns
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing & continuous integration
- RDBMS and NoSQL databases preferably PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Good to have passion for investing
We Offer
- Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme.
- We are always looking for ways to promote and inspire innovation.
- Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of multi-national IT professionals.
- Healthy work environment - company-sponsored medical program, food, and beverage program, open communication.
- Friendly policies to support Work-life balance, team building, and celebrations.
Architect, develop and maintain highly scalable, reliable and secure distributed backend
systems on Cloud (AWS or Azure) or on-premises environments for Mihup, its customers
and partners.
Work closely with your fellow engineers to develop systems capable of concurrently
processing massive amounts of voice data both in online real-time as well as offline
environments.
Drive accountability for test driven development, delivery of high-quality features and
resilient enterprise class solutions.
Lead a culture of team ownership and direct individual and team accountability to
continuously improve how they work to achieve results.
Work in a startup environment, pushing boundaries with deep involvement with business.
BE//BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or a related field from a Tier I or Tier II
University.
6-8 years of hands-on software development and deployment experience (experience of
working in a consumer product startup during its growth phase will be a plus) of which 1 – 2
years of experience would be in leading a team of software developers.
Expertise in Java 8+ and Spring Boot is a must
Good experience in messaging platforms like RabbitMQ/Kafka
Good experience in distributed systems and relational & NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
Expertise in one or more of: Python, NodeJS, GoLang would be preferred
Must have hands on experience in products which handle multiple concurrent calls (API),
handle CPU intensive jobs, consist of multiple asynchronous system calls.
Worked on microservices based architecture and design
Managed/ Owned infrastructure on AWS/Microsoft Azure/private clouds and setup high
availability systems
Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
Knowledge of RESTful APIs, caching concepts, the HTTP protocol and general web
architecture
Pluses
1. Anything that will let us know more about who you are that you would like to share such as
Blogs, Twitter, Medium, GitHub etc.
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3+ years of Experience in software Design and development and familiar with technologies - Java, Java-J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Ajax, REST API, Micro services etc.
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Working knowledge of JVM internals
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Working knowledge of any database (MySQL or HSQLDB)
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Working knowledge of No-SQL database (Mongo or Dynamo DB)
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Working experience with messaging (JMS/RabbitMQ)
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R & D on new advanced cloud-based technologies in a test-driven agile development.
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Knowledge in designing and architecting systems with high scalability and performance requirements.
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Ability to understand infrastructure for performance evaluation and reporting of cloud-based services, namely AWS
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knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch etc.
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Certification on AWS Fundamendals
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Excellent communication skills
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ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
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skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
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Good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front
Responsibilities
- Software Engineering
- Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
- Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
- Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
- Product Delivery
- Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
- Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
- Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments
Qualifications
- Software Engineering
- Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in
- Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
- Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
- Product Delivery
- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
- Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
- Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
- Product Maintenance
- Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks etc
- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design
Responsibilities:
Drives technology stack choices for treebo tech teams.
Comfortable working in fuzzy environments and changing requirements.
Act as a technical mentor to your team.
Requirements:
Effective problem solving skills in complex & large scale environment.
Exposure in Distributed systems and micro services.
Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
Very Strong System design, separation of concerns and OO design skills
with ability to craft crisp interfaces and communicate at the right
levels of abstraction.
His / her code should be model code for the rest of the engineering
organisation.
Experience working with web-scale / user path systems.
Experience working with large scale persistent systems including NoSQL
databases.
3 - 6 years of overall experience.
B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required.
Must Haves
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 4+ years’ work experience in software development
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux)
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
- Working experience with Kubernetes
- Experienced working with distributed databases at scale
Good to haves
- Experience in developing software using AWS native services & technologies.
- Experience taking a lead role in building and operating scalable distributed systems
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
- Familiar with building secure software using modern security principles
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.









