Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Summary

Join MerQube, a leading fintech firm, as a Full Stack Staff Backend Engineer in Bangalore! In this role, you will design, build, and operate large-scale services on public clouds for an industry-leading financial indices platform. You’ll collaborate with functional teams to improve index computation and management systems, internal and external tools, and data dissemination systems. This position requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, 7+ years of backend experience (Python/Go/C++/Java), and 3+ years of frontend experience (React). The ideal candidate will have experience with public cloud environments and data processing pipelines. MerQube offers competitive compensation, stellar benefits, flexible working arrangements, and a community-first environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years experience building production services using Python/Go/C++/Java
• 3+ years experience building production frontends using React
• Experience designing, building and operating complex features as part of a team

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

• 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
• Experience with pandas, numpy, scipy
• Familiarity with data processing pipelines and workflows (Apache Airflow or similar)
• FastAPI, 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