Job Description

Job purpose

We are looking for a contract Backend Engineer to help build and refine analytical, data-driven web applications

and supporting infrastructure for a quantitative trading firm. This role is hands-on and implementation-driven,

working with production microservices, databases, and automated workflows.

Key responsibilities

- Build and upgrade microservices and workflows written in Python/Pandas

- Design and maintain RESTful APIs that serve time-series and quantitative data

- Integrate with database storage across MongoDB, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL

- Reason about business logic as it relates to backend data transformations

- Collaborate with front-end developers to design APIs that provide the necessary data to the UI

- Make informed decisions about where certain pieces of business logic belong in the stack

- Optimize query performance for large datasets and frequent updates

- Debug issues related to job dependency management and data integrity

- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend services

- Ensure system reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting

Key competencies

Required Skills

- Solid experience with Python (3.9+) and data manipulation libraries (Pandas, NumPy)

- Proficiency building microservices using FastAPI or similar async frameworks

- Solid understanding of enterprise-level data architecture and design patterns

- Experience with both relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases

- Good understanding of SQL Server stored procedures with the ability to alter or create them as

needed

- Working knowledge of containers (Docker)



and cloud platforms (GCP/Kubernetes)

- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs collaboratively with UI developers

- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and design

patterns

- Knowledge of code performance optimization and memory efficiency

- Familiarity with message brokers and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pub/Sub)

- Experience with version control (Git) including branching strategies, code reviews, and PR workflows

- Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, JWT, API keys)

- Ability to work independently within an existing, complex codebase

- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems

Nice to Have

- Experience with financial, trading, or analytical applications

- Full proficiency handling time-series data as well as streaming/real-time data

- Familiarity with market data from industry vendors such as Bloomberg, Factset, or Refinitiv

- Experience with task scheduling and orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or similar)

- Focus on software testing and validation, including unit, integration, and performance testing

- Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) for high-throughput systems

- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize)

- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar)

Job Snapshot

Job ID

JOB_8032

Department

Data and Technology Services

Location

Udyog Vihar Phase II, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience

7 - 10 Years

Employee Type

Permanent

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