Senior Software Development Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Development Engineer responsible for reliability, automation, operational architecture, and production support for risk and analytics applications running on AWS. The role partners with quant, risk, market data, and client-facing teams across a globally distributed platform organisation.

What you'll do

• Design diagnostic tooling, AI-assisted tooling, health checks, and self-service remediation.
• Automate recovery and self-healing for analytics and batch jobs.
• Lead incident response, root-cause investigations, communications, and blameless postmortems.
• Harden batch and end-of-day processing through orchestration, retries, idempotency, backfills, and safe reruns.
• Set business-oriented observability, monitoring, and alerting standards.
• Support market data quality, reconciliation, and downstream analytics investigations.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to production readiness and client escalations.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience on a business-critical platform.
• Strong Python and shell skills.
• Experience debugging application code from client symptoms to precise root cause.
• Experience operating batch and scheduled workloads at scale with workflow orchestration.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, AWS, NoSQL, and observability practices.
• On-call experience with structured escalation and postmortem writing.
• Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with timeseries data, financial systems, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or CI/CD.
• Experience with streaming, distributed compute, managed data stores, or regulated financial environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and setting operational standards.

Details

• Location: Mumbai.
• Work includes a follow-the-sun on-call rotation with no permanent night shift.
• Reports to the support lead in Mumbai.