C++ - Sde 3/4

**About the company**

Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. From new investors to seasoned traders, we aim to enable everyone to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade & investment platform and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.

By focusing on our customers’ needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from 25 Thousand in 2017 to 2 Lakh in 2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over 4 million customers trust us with their investment decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry leader in the country.

The company was founded in 2009 by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath, and in 2016 Kavitha Subramanian joined as the third co-founder. Backed by Ratan Tata, we raised $4 million in Series A funding (2016) led by Kalaari Capital. In 2019, US-based investment firm Tiger Global Management invested $25 million in a Series B funding round. Visit our Linkedin page to learn more about us.

**What we want**:
We are looking for talented engineers with strong foundations who can learn and pick up new tools on the fly. We want you to share our passion for developing products that will help change the landscape for fintech in India. You would be working with the latest web technologies to build new features, improve the performance and reliability of existing features, and improve our development processes as we scale our company.

**Role: SDE 3/4**

Job Description Summary:
**Meet Your Team**:
Collaborate with a talented team of engineers dedicated to revolutionizing fintech in India.

**Your Way to Impact**:
Make a significant impact by developing innovative products that reshape the fintech landscape in India.

**Your Day to Day**:
**In Your Day-to-Day Role, You Will**:

- Solve complex problems and mentor junior developers, freshers, and interns.
- Provide technical guidance in planning and executing projects.
- Develop new systems and maintain existing ones.
- Analyze project requirements and provide technical and functional recommendations.
- Evaluate and recommend improvements in engineering processes.
- Recommend new technologies to enhance system performance and reliability.
- Perform system failure analysis and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure high availability of backend services and maintain production code quality.
- Identify proof-of-concept tasks for interns.

**What Do You Need to Bring?**

**Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages like C++.
- Mastery of data structures, core libraries, Linux, Git, Agile, CI, and modern testing methodologies.
- Experience handling 10K concurrent requests and writing high-performing database queries.
- Ability to think creatively in problem-solving and adapt quickly to changing technical stacks.

**Qualifications**:
Expert knowledge in computer science, including data structures, algorithms, and software design. Understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks.

**Bonus Points**:

- GitHub profile showcasing contributions.
- Stack Overflow profile with answers to tough questions.
- Blog on topics like scalable architecture, distributed data processing, multi-threaded coding architecture.

Upstox is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.