Python Software Engineer – Finquest – Full Job Description

Company: Finquest
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable

Finquest, a premier platform delivering personalized connections for M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) and direct investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific, European and North American mid-market space, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer/Python Software Engineer.

We are looking for individuals with strong backgrounds in data wrangling and ETL processes to strengthen our R&D team. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-growing team and significantly impact our products and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our Data&AI team to crawl, analyze, and process data from various heterogeneous data sources to grow our production database.
• Design, develop, maintain, and improve software solutions to business problems using data engineering techniques.
• Prototype, build and test data wrangling services and ETL processes, ship to production and keep iterating in a fast pace.
• Make a significant impact on further improving the quality of our data and services.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Graduate with a master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• At least 4-year professional experience as a Data Engineer/Software Engineer or similar engineering roles.
• Great passion for data engineering and related technologies.
• Strong programming skills with a minimum of 4 years of experience in Python.
• First experience with web crawlers (Scrapy, Selenium), data wrangling tools, databases (SQL & NoSQL), and revision control tools.
• Strong hands-on skills and comfortable with Linux/Unix systems and CLIs.
• Experience wrangling and validating structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with code reviews and technical mentoring of more junior engineers.
• Problem solving and results-driven attitude and autonomous spirit for getting things done.
• Fluency in English.

Would be a plus:

• Proven record of writing high-quality production-level code.
• Experience in financial/economic databases, corporate research, and FinTech.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and hands-on experience with pertinent libraries.
• Experience with large-scale parallelization with HPC or GPU.
• Open-source projects demonstrating your creative drive.

Job Types: Full-time

Job Location: Bengaluru