Engineering Lead – Quant Infrastructure
Job Description
We are committed to leveraging computational expertise to deliver cutting-edge insights in capital markets analysis.
Engineering
Lead – Quant Infrastructure Pune 6 Years – 8 Years Experience About the Role Fintel Research Labs (FRL) is building a research-driven, multi-engine trading system (PRISM) across equities, derivatives, and cross-asset markets. We focus on systematic trading, data infrastructure, and robust execution systems at institutional scale. We’re hiring a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead to own backend architecture, data systems, and end-to-end integration of our investment platform.
What You’ll Do Architecture & Platform Ownership - Own overall platform architecture across data ingestion, research, execution, risk, monitoring, and analytics systems
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures for low-latency trading workflows
• Review and optimize system architecture, infrastructure choices, and hosting strategies across cloud and on-prem environments
• Define engineering standards for scalability, reliability, observability, and security Data Engineering / Data Governance - Design and maintain time-series data architecture for market, trade, and analytics datasets
• Own data quality processes including validation, reconciliation, lineage, completeness checks, and issue remediation
• Troubleshoot production data issues including missing ticks, feed breaks, latency spikes, pipeline failures, and historical inconsistencies
• Establish data storage, partitioning, retention, backup, and recovery strategies Production / Reliability - Drive monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks
• Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) and incident resolution for production issues
• Improve system performance, latency, resiliency, and operational reliability Leadership - Lead system engineering team
• Drive architecture reviews, code reviews, hiring, and technical roadmap planning
• Coordinate across quant research, engineering, and product teams
• Design scalable backend systems for strategy, execution, and risk
• Build and manage data pipelines (real-time + historical)
• Own end-to-end system flow (signal → execution → monitoring) Mandatory Skills - 6–8 years in backend / data engineering - Time-series databases / architectures, ETL / ELT design, Data lineage and reconciliation
• Strong Python, C++ and SQL language experience
• Event-driven systems architecture, disaster recovery, microservices and distributed architecture patterns
• System design and performance optimization
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building end-to-end systems
• Solid understanding of:
• Data modeling (time-series preferred)
• API integration
• Distributed systems
• Overall back-end systems architecture
• Hands-on experience with AWS / Azure and on-premise servers Preferred skills:
• Experience designing market data platforms, execution systems, OMS/EMS, or quantitative infrastructure
• Exposure to time-series databases and financial market data pipelines
• Experience troubleshooting production trading systems and real-time data workflows Education - B.Tech / M.Tech / Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
