Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join MerQube, a leading fintech firm, as a Staff Backend Engineer in Bangalore! As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will design, build, and operate large-scale services on public clouds for an industry-leading platform for financial indices. You will collaborate with functional teams to improve index computation and management systems, internal and external tools, and data dissemination systems. This role requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, 8+ years of experience building production services using Python/Go/C++/Java, and experience with SQL and database modeling. MerQube offers competitive compensation, stellar benefits, flexible working arrangements, and a community-first environment focused on health, wellness, and work-life balance. Opportunities for professional development and growth are also provided.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years experience building production services using Python/Go/C++/Java
• Experience designing, building and operating complex features as part of a team
• Familiarity with public cloud environments (GCP/AWS) or a strong desire and aptitude to ramp-up on them
• Experience developing complex backend applications
• Experience leading an engineering team to deliver a project
• SQL, database modeling

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate large scale services leveraging public clouds to build an industry leading platform for financial indices
• The platform supports onboarding new customers, ingesting and processing large amounts of data from a variety of sources and computing a variety of financial indices
• Work closely with functional teams to build and improve MerQube's index computation and management systems, internal and external index management and research tools, and data dissemination systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with pandas, numpy, scipy
• Familiarity with data processing pipelines and workflows (Apache Airflow or similar)
• Flask, UWSGI, OpenAPI, Pydantic
• Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, EKS

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Stellar full-time benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more
• Flexible working arrangements, including opportunities to work remotely
• Community-first environment (we want your colleagues to be your friends!)
• Focus on health, wellness, and work-life balance
• Opportunities to learn, develop, and grow
• PTO, holiday, and sick time