Lead, Tech (Trading Systems)

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our Trading Systems team at our firm's offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, or Gurugram. The team builds and maintains critical infrastructure supporting the firm's trading applications, including an in-house messaging middleware platform that delivers latency in the tens of microseconds while processing hundreds of thousands of messages per second, and a firmwide monitoring and alerting framework for front-office technology applications and systems. In this senior individual contributor role, you will serve as the technical authority for both platforms, driving architectural direction, developing performance-critical code, and ensuring their reliability and scalability across trading teams.

• The ideal candidate should hold- Basic qualifications: - 3.5–6.5 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems - Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and memory management, with the ability to reason about system performance - Expertise in at least one programming language, preferably Java, with a strong understanding of JVM internals, garbage collection, and multithreading - Experience designing distributed, fault-tolerant, low-latency, or high-throughput systems, with strong high-level and low-level design skills - Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience diagnosing complex production issues and driving them to resolution - Sound technical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to balance system performance, reliability, and operational risk - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence technical decisions Preferred qualifications: - Experience with distributed messaging middleware or event-streaming systems - Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks, including metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting - Programming experience in Python or C++ - Exposure to applied cryptography and secrets management - Experience developing LLM-based or agentic tools and automation frameworks