Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop one or more major areas of the Synaptic platform, which comprises of multiple components; oversees project teams as required
• Translate business requirements into system requirements, design specifications and document new and/or existing application requirements
• Work closely with the business team, technical teams, and user groups in the design and development of applications
• Find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems. Conceive and lead the development and design of highly innovative, large, software solutions that meet specifications and significantly impact future development. As a Lead Engineer, you will be expected to bring new and fresh ideas to the company and its solutions. You will be part of ideation and conception phases and help define the scope and business requirements of the projects.
• Participate in conceiving and setting the direction for development projects and ensuring all deliverables from the team are of the highest quality
• Perform and lead triage and analysis of application incidents to provide possible short term and long-term resolutions as appropriate based on the business priority
• Generates innovative new ideas, concepts, high fidelity software prototypes and minimum viable products (MVPs) which accelerate or create new business capabilities
• Evaluates, analyzes and leads the adoption of emerging new technologies and practices to evolve as new standards that improve software delivery and maximize value

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience developing object-oriented software with a solid understanding of Ruby/Rails or Python
• In-depth understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in building pipelines to ingest terabytes of data spanning billions of rows
• Experience in working with large code bases and complex problems
• Experience in setting up development processes to ensure timely and optimal delivery
• Fluency in engineering practices such as TDD, CI, continuous deployment and code reviews
• Ability to instrument a system to identify and solve performance issues and constraints
• Understanding of scaling, throughput and latency
• Previous experience working with ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Kafka, SingleStore (MemSQL), Spark or any other BigData solution is preferred.

The candidate should be a quick learner and should be up to date with current technology trends. We solve complex, completely new problems in the financial domain which requires someone who is not intimidated by challenges, thrives under pressure and hyper focused on delivering exceptional results.

Experience: 5-7 years.

About Synaptic

Synaptic is a series B-funded India and US-based SaaS start-up that is bringing the power of alternative data to the world of investing. We unify real-time insights on companies across 100s of metrics onto one platform. Data is changing traditional investment research and we are at the forefront of this change. Our customers are some of the biggest and the most prolific venture capital firms, private equity shops and hedge funds managing hundreds of billions of dollars cumulatively. We are backed by marquee global funds like Valor Equity Partners, Ribbit, Felicis and Vy Capital.