Tech Co-Founder & CTO

ABOUT US:
Arque Capital is a FinTech startup working with AI in Finance in domains like Asset Management (Hedge Funds, ETFs and Structured Products), Robo Advisory, Bespoke Research, Alternate Brokerage, and other applications of Technology & Quantitative methods in Big Finance.

PROFILE DESCRIPTION:
1. Get the "Tech" in order for the Hedge Fund - Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets
2. Build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for our Products
3. Architecture Practices - At startups, the dynamics changes very fast. Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. CTO’s may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that CTO should follow.
4. Build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products
5. Product Innovation through Research and continuous improvement
6. Build out the Technological Infrastructure for the Hedge Fund
7. Hiring and building out the Technology team
8. Setting up and managing the entire IT infrastructure - Hardware as well as Cloud
9. Ensure company-wide security and IP protection

REQUIREMENTS:
Computer Science Engineer from Tier-I colleges only (IIT, IIIT, NIT, BITS, DHU, Anna University, MU)
5-10 years of relevant Technology experience (no infra or database persons)
Expertise in Python and C++ (3+ years minimum)
2+ years experience of building and managing Big Data projects
1+ year Experience managing Cloud computing infrastructure (Amazon AWS preferred) - OPTIONAL
Experience with High performance computing - OPTIONAL
Experience with technical design & architecture (1+ years minimum)
Experience as a Tech Lead, IT Manager, Director, VP, or CTO
Ability to work in an unstructured environment
Looking to work in a small, start-up type environment based out of Mumbai