Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

Lead the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical brokerage systems including order routing, OMS, execution engines, risk modules, FIX gateways, market data pipelines, and settlement systems.
Architect systems with high throughput, low latency, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
Drive end-to-end delivery from requirements to production, with strong ownership of quality, performance, and SLAs.
Mentor and guide mid/senior engineers; foster best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
Translate brokerage product requirements into robust technical solutions.
Deep understanding of exchange protocols (NSE, BSE, MCX, CDS, etc.), FIX, WebSocket feeds, market data normalization, auction mechanisms, and trading lifecycle.
Optimize core workflows such as smart order routing, bracket orders, MIS/NRML, margining, client ledger, and regulatory reporting (e.g., SEBI, exchange reporting).

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

Partner with cross-functional teams—Product, Risk, Compliance, Ops, and Business—to ensure alignment of technical roadmaps with strategic goals.
Communicate technical trade-offs and risks effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
Liaise with external vendors, exchanges, and liquidity partners for integrations and uptime guarantees.

Performance, Security & Resilience

Define performance benchmarks, SLAs, system uptime targets, and alerting frameworks.
Champion secure coding practices, encryption, user authentication protocols, and data protection policies.
Lead root-cause analysis and remediation of production incidents.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Educational

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
Graduation from a top Indian university/institute (IIT, NIT, BITS, IIIT, top state/National universities, premier business/tech schools) is a strong plus.

Experience

5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
4–5 years specifically in the brokerage/financial trading domain, with experience at top broking setups strongly preferred.
Experience working on brokerage tech stacks, trading platforms, OMS, risk engines, market data feeds, exchange connectivity, FIX protocol, or algo trading engines.

Technical Proficiency

Polyglot with strong coding skills in Go / C++ / Python / Node.js (Deep experience in one and knowledge of others).
Experience with REST/FIX APIs, WebSockets, messaging queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), databases (Postgres, Redis), and microservices architecture.
Familiarity with Linux, Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD, observability tools (Grafana/Prometheus/ELK).
Understanding of exchange protocols, order types, matching engines, price/time priority, margin calculations, settlement cycles.

Soft Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
Ownership mindset, attention to detail, and ability to work in fast-paced environments.

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