Technical Co-Founder (Equity Only)

Backend Developer (Python)

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
• Financial services
• Natural Language Processing
• Robotic Process Automation
• Intelligent Document Processing
• Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We- ve grown up on Wall Street. We work hard, and have aggressive goals. We want our team-mates to be focused, goal-oriented and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done, and getting things done right. We want outcome focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Work From Home

Package: 7-12 LPA

Job Responsibilities:

Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture.

• Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
• Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
• Perform memory, cpu and resource management
• Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
• Propose fixes, and enhancements to existing trading systems
• Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
• Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
• Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings

Required Skills:

•  JavaScript and Python
• Multi-threaded browser and server applications
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• REST

We are looking for a Senior Python Developer to build functional and efficient server-side applications.

Senior Python Developer responsibilities include participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle. If you’re a seasoned developer with a love for back-end technologies, we’d like to meet you.

Your ultimate goal is to create high-quality products that meet customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews
• Manage testing and bug fixes
• Prepare technical documentation
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code
• Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 3+ years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, Bottle)
• Expertise in Object-Oriented Design, Database Design, and XML Schema
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and REST API
• Understanding of databases and SQL
• Knowledge of machine learning is a plus
• Attention to detail
• Leadership skills

We are seeking a lead Python Developer to lead the backend efforts and, in the process design, develop, and deploy its customer centric applications.

The person will have the opportunity to design and build an early stage, rapidly evolving platform from scratch and carry out these primary responsibilities -

Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers

Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption

Build micro services and their deployment process

Work with problems of scale, leveraging technologies that are distributed in nature.

Perform code reviews

Required qualifications and must have skills

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (4+ years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development)

Building performant and scalable applications from scratch

Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.

Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.

Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge

Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line

Object-oriented concepts & design patterns

Sytem and database desinging skills

Nice to have Skills

Knowledge of other programming languages beyond Python

Familiarity with managing infrastructure on AWS/GCloud

Experience with working with/building data analytics pipleline

Familiarity with NoSQL databases

Good understanding of Docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes

Security-first architecture approach

Application benchmarking and optimization

Interpersonal Attributes

You are driven by the impact your work creates

You can answer the why behind any technological choice you make

You can work independently as well as part of a team

As a Software Engineer at Quince, you'll be responsible for designing and building scalable infrastructure and build applications to solve some very interesting problems in the logistics and finance tech space.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect solutions on the cloud for various business problems with workflow efficiency and scale in mind.
• Be on the forefront with the business team to learn, understand, identify and translate function requirements into technical opportunities.
• End-to-end ownership - from scoping the requirements to the final delivery of the solution with keen eye to details and quality.
• Build and improve logistics components for this innovative M2C supply-chain model.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL data pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science or closely related subject.
• 1-5 years of experience in building software solutions.
• Good at data structures and their practical applications.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Python.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining applications on cloud platforms (Ex: AWS, Google cloud).
• Proficiency with SQL and databases - relational and/or nosql (Snowflakes, AWS RedShift, etc).
• Experience with messaging middleware such as Kafka is good to have.