Zunpulse SDE I- Python Developer

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.

What/Why/How is Floworks?

Floworks (https://floworks.ai">https://floworks.ai) builds powerful business process tools that simplify business operations for the largest of e-commerce and logistics companies in India.

Floworks was founded by distinguished alums from IIT and BIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology.

Floworks has raised two rounds of funding within just 6 months of existence.We are funded by London based Startup Incubator, Entrepreneur First whose investors include the likes of PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman.

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Floworks in the press:

1. https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/entrepreneur-first-announces-investment-in-six-indian-tech-start-ups/896694/

What will be your key responsibilities?

Although it’s an engineering role, you will have significant involvement in product, hiring and business as well. You may expect following key responsibilities:

Engineering: You’ll need to write code – a lot of code. At the end of the day, your most important responsibility is to get your company’s product to market and maximize the number of product experiments that can be run. You’ll make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the engineering organization for years to come. At the same time, you’ll have to make serious trade-offs to balance speed of execution with quality.

Product: As a founding engineer, you’ll also have a significant amount of ownership over the product direction. You should expect to spend time talking to customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritization decisions regarding both the short- and long-term roadmap. In many cases, you will be building features in the absence of any formal product requirement document.

Support: You should also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the trenches supporting customers. You’ll probably find yourself engaging with customers in shared Slack channels, WhatsApp groups etc.

Hiring: As a founding engineer, you will spend a ton of time sourcing, interviewing, and closing early team members. 

Business: Finally, you’ll gain exposure to all other aspects of the business – from fundraising, to sales, and beyond. Although you probably won’t be closing deals or making pitch decks, you will certainly be expected to sell your product and pitch the company’s vision.

How do you know you are right fit for the role?

• You have at least 2-4 years of experience. You are proficient with most of the following languages/frameworks:
• NodeJS
• AWS
• Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• You crave ownership. If you often find yourself raising your hand to own things end-to-end, you will likely really enjoy the ownership afforded to you as a founding engineer.
• You’re okay with ambiguity. You won’t get product requirement documents or designs for everything you’re expected to build. A stellar founding engineer will know when to ask for clarity and when to make educated assumptions. If you tend to gravitate towards more loosely scoped projects, that’s a good indicator that you’ll do well in this type of role.
• You’re multidisciplinary. A typical day might include anything from several hours of coding, to a few customer conversations, to a technical brainstorm or architecture discussion, to an interview or two. 

• You operate at light speed. A great founding engineer should welcome this challenge and thrive under the pressure of intense deadlines. 

What will be the hiring process?

• 2 round of technical interviews
• 2 round of behavioural interview

What will be your compensation?

• Fixed: INR 20L-30L
• Bonus: 10-30% of Fixed depending upon performance.

• Equity: 0.1%-0.2%

Desired candidates must have 3-6 years of experience as NodeJs Developers.

If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

• Working in high paced competitive stock trading environment with core web app development, scripting, data interpretation and manipulation skills
• Designing, creating and maintaining our in-house software for business requirements
• Work on innovative ideas to improve the user experience of our internal systems and applications which are used by the trading teams
• Improve on existing tools to make trade monitoring systems robust and more reliable

Ideal candidate should have:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline
• Experience on Python web app development (Preferably Django)
• Ability to work as a full stack developer
• Experience in Shell/Perl or Python scripting
• Prior experience of Linux or Unix based operating systems
• Ability to create automation scripts
• Experience/Knowledge of financial industry
• Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects
• Willingness to learn and work on new technologies
• Excellent communication skills

• Exp- 3+ yrs
• Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
• At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
• Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
• Experience in TDD/BDD is required
• Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
• Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
• Understanding of AKKA and Play framework