Software Developer
Job Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Employment Type
Full-time
Work Setup
Office
Start Date
Immediate
About Obsidian Capital
Obsidian Capital is a quantitative trading firm, leveraging algorithms and low-latency technologies to provide liquidity in financial markets. Our team develops and implements advanced trading strategies that quickly respond to market dynamics. We strategically deploy proprietary capital for active trading, utilizing quantitative models to generate consistent returns.
Overview
We are hiring a Software Developer to build and maintain the systems our traders and quantitative researchers use every day. You will write performance-critical code in C++ and Python, and own features end-to-end from design to production.
This is a hands-on role on a small team — the code you ship moves P&L the next trading day, not the next quarter.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain components of our trading and research platform
- Write low-latency, high-throughput code in C++ and Python
- Build internal tools and infrastructure used directly by traders and quantitative researchers
- Diagnose and resolve issues in live production trading systems
- Profile, benchmark, and optimize hot paths in production code
- Collaborate with traders, researchers, and other engineers on project delivery
Required Qualifications
- 3–5 years of professional experience building production software systems
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python
- Hands-on experience with multithreading and multiprocessing
- Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns
- Comfort working in Linux environments
- Genuine interest in financial markets and algorithmic trading
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building latency-sensitive or systems-level applications
- Exposure to network programming, sockets, or kernel-bypass stacks
- Prior work in quantitative finance, trading, or market data systems
- Contributions to open-source systems projects
We Offer
- Compensation: INR 24–36 LPA, based on experience
- Year-end performance-linked bonus
- Direct ownership of high-impact work in a small, focused team
- Exposure to the full stack of a proprietary trading business — research, execution, risk, infrastructure
- Collaborative work environment alongside traders, researchers, and engineers