Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop backend services that process real-time and event-driven data.

- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and downstream consumption.

- Develop internal services and APIs to support platform workflows and operational needs.

- Integrate systems with external services and counterparties, ensuring seamless operation.

- Translate high-level requirements into reliable, production-grade software solutions.

- Implement safeguards and controls within backend workflows to ensure predictable behavior and system stability.

- Monitor, maintain, and improve production systems, including incident response and post-incident analysis.

- Collaborate closely with engineering, research, and operations teams to evolve the platform and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Overview

- The Senior Python Backend Engineer position is a critical role within our algorithmic trading fund, focusing on designing and implementing core backend systems.

- The role requires building and operating services that process real-time data, integrate with various external systems, and ensure continuous production stability.

- This position emphasizes design quality, operational stability, and meticulous attention to detail, crucial for maintaining high-performance systems.

- Familiarity with financial markets can be advantageous, aiding in understanding system behavior, edge cases, and reliability in live trading environments.

- The engineer will operate in a systems-focused capacity, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance platform capabilities.





- This role involves significant responsibility and ownership over core platform components, requiring an ability to think holistically about system behavior and end-to-end processes.

- Engineers are expected to ensure that their contributions enhance the platform's overall reliability and performance.

- This position is based in Mumbai and is part of the BFSI sector, offering a dynamic and challenging environment for professionals in the trading technology space.

- Candidates will have the opportunity to work closely with engineering, research, and operations teams, contributing to the evolution of our algorithmic trading platform.

- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building backend systems in Python, with a deep understanding of real-time data processing and event-driven architectures.

- The role demands a solid focus on system correctness, observability, and fault tolerance, supporting the company's mission to deliver high-quality trading solutions.

Requirements

- Strong proficiency in Python with extensive experience in building backend systems.

- Experience working with real-time or event-driven architectures, ensuring high performance and reliability.

- Solid understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency models.

- Demonstrated experience in building and integrating APIs (REST, WebSockets, or similar).

- Strong database fundamentals, including experience with both relational and non-relational systems.

- Familiarity with message queues or streaming systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Proven experience designing systems for reliability, observability, and long-running production workloads.

📌 Senior Python Backend Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Net Connect
📍 Mumbai