Job Description
We are looking for an engineering manager to join our Python Infra team based in the firm’s offices in Hyderabad/Bengaluru/Gurugram. The team focuses on building and maintaining software infrastructure in Python that powers a lot of applications across the firm. Products developed and maintained by the team form the basis of a lot of other applications across the firm that are critical to the day-to-day activities of the firm. The team delivers infrastructure solutions for analytic computations, data storage, and data services which are developed primarily in Python. The Python Infra team also works on efficient data storage and retrieval, creating high-performing and easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools, parallel programming where they support effective use of our grid in Python, building server infrastructure that teams can use to make their own web servers, and building unit testing and documentation infrastructure in Python. The team strives for high performance in these foundational infra by doing a lot of optimizations of core libraries in lower-level languages and using compilation techniques in Python.
As a member of the Python Infra team, you will be responsible for building the Python foundation for the firm. You will manage and lead the team to ensure a productive working environment and clear communication. You will also lead the team on its goals; the focus will be on improving areas including speeding up in-house data analytics framework through better algorithms, SIMD, multi-core algorithms, and enhancing in-house data caching framework with newer backends and low-level language optimizations. Furthermore, you will also work with Front Office groups and understand business use cases to help them speed up their workflows which are highly dependent on the above infrastructure owned and maintained by the Python Infra team. Finally, you will also be responsible for people and project management as a key part of the job role.