Tower Research Capital

Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a highly-skilled Software Engineer to join our Referential Data team as part of the Core Engineering department in India. The candidate will play a key role in contributing to Tower’s security referential infrastructure.

Job Title:

Software Engineer I 

Last Date To Apply:

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ASAP, will end as soon as a certain number is reached

Experience Level:

Candidate should have 1- 3 years of experience

Job Location:

Gurgaon , India

Salary:

Not Specified

Eligible Batches:

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Requirements:

The ideal candidate will have:

• 1-3 years of experience working with either Java and/or Python programming
• Expertise in Relational(SQL)/NonRelational(Mongo) databases
• Comfortable working in an UNIX environment along with good shell scripting skills
• A degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience in working with security referential data for financial trading across a variety of asset classes – equities, derivatives, fx, fixed income is a plus.
• Experience working in the financial trading industry is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Job Description:

• Strengthening and maintaining Tower’s security referential infrastructure to address trading and back-office needs.
• Taking end-to-end ownership: requirements gathering, development, testing, release and support.
• Being a subject matter expert, functionally and technically, to deliver security referential data needs for Tower’s global trading footprint
• Analyzing production issues and implementing corrective measures to prevent them from recurring
• Identifying various operational inefficiencies and developing automation efforts as part of the continuous improvement of the platform
• Interacting with trading teams and other stakeholders to handle issues