Our client is a technology-driven quantitative trading firm operating in Indian financial markets, focused on developing sophisticated, automated, and high-performance trading strategies.

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead to own the architecture, development, and performance of the firm's core trading platform. The role involves building low-latency trading systems, solving complex engineering challenges, and driving technical excellence across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable, low-latency trading systems.
- Own the tick-to-trade architecture covering market data, execution, and risk management.
- Build real-time, event-driven systems using Python, asyncio, and WebSockets.
- Integrate with exchanges, brokers, and OMS platforms.




- Optimise system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Drive technical architecture, code quality, and mentor engineering teams.

Required Skills
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Expert Python, asyncio, FastAPI, and concurrency.
- Solid experience with real-time and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with WebSockets, pub/sub, and trading integrations.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Docker, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of Indian Markets, NSE, BSE, MCX, and exchange connectivity.

📌 HFT Engineering Lead - Python (Mumbai)
🏢 Callisto talent solutions
📍 Mumbai