Build the tools we wish existed.
Kautilya puts an institutional-grade quant desk in the hands of Indian retail investors. We're a small team that ships fast and cares about getting the numbers right. If that sounds like you, one of these is yours to own.
Software Engineer · Backend
Full-timeYou'll own services that price options in real time, run Monte Carlo VaR on live portfolios, and move market data at scale without falling over. This is quant-grade backend — correctness and latency both matter.
- Strong Python: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, async / asyncpg, PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Comfortable with real-time data — WebSockets, schedulers, Redis, NumPy / SciPy.
- You use LLMs efficiently: you know when AI is the right tool versus deterministic code, and how to keep token cost and latency sane (prompt design, caching, batching).
- Bonus: options / derivatives or market-data experience.
Equity Researcher
Full-timeYou'll build the equity research that underpins how Kautilya values companies — rigorous, fundamentals-first, and driven by the numbers.
- You understand equity research — how to go from a company to a defensible view on what it's worth.
- A strong grasp of fundamentals: reading filings, understanding the business and its drivers.
- Very good with numbers — comfortable living in financial statements and models.
- In the interview, you'll pitch us a stock — come ready.
Senior Risk Analyst
Full-timeYou'll shape how Kautilya measures and explains portfolio risk — VaR, stress scenarios, factor exposure — for real Indian portfolios, not textbook ones.
- You've worked in portfolio management or wealth management — you've managed real money or real clients.
- Deep with VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis and portfolio-construction techniques.
- A strong maths or physics background is a real plus, paired with hands-on financial experience.
- Strong grasp of Indian markets — F&O, indices, sector structure.
- You can turn a risk number into a decision a client actually understands.
Video Editor
Full-time / ContractYou turn raw footage and market ideas into reels and videos people actually finish watching. Fast turnaround, production-ready output.
- Strong editing craft — pacing, motion, captions, sound design.
- A reel portfolio that proves you can make finance content genuinely watchable.
- Comfortable owning the edit end-to-end for Instagram, YouTube and shorts.
Social Media Content Creator · Finance
Full-timeA face-of-the-brand role. You'll build Kautilya's channels from the ground up — research your own topics, script them, and present them on camera for YouTube, Instagram and wherever finance audiences are. On-camera presence and charisma matter as much as the ideas, because that's what makes people watch.
- You genuinely understand how social platforms work — what earns views, retention and shares, and how to grow a channel from zero.
- You can run a new channel end-to-end: content calendar, hooks, trends, community.
- Your videos can go technical enough that a wealth advisor or fund manager respects them — while still sparking curiosity in a first-time retail viewer.
- Comfortable and confident on camera — willing to be the face, do your own research, and appear across YouTube, Instagram and more.
- Real finance knowledge, or the discipline to learn fast and get it right.
- Bring links to anything you've made — and a short clip of you presenting to camera.