D. E. Shaw & Co. is a global investment bank whose activities focus on the intersection between computation and finance. Founded in 1988 by Dr. David Shaw, the group has earned an international reputation for financial innovation and technological leadership. 

D. E. Shaw India Software Private Limited is a member of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.'s Global Information Technology Group. Established in Hyderabad in 1996, it is a state-of-the-art development and support center that works in coordination with the parent firm to maintain the company's technological leadership in the areas of securities information management, market evaluation, and order execution.

D. E. Shaw India Software was involved in the creation of Internet-based products that include Juno Online Services, L.P., which provides free Internet e-mail services and FarSight which provides integrated online personal financial services over the World Wide Web.

From the time of its organization, the management of D. E. Shaw & Co. has built and relies on a small team of extraordinarily gifted professionals, rather than a larger group of competent but less obviously remarkable personnel. To this end, the firm continues to allocate an unusually large portion of its operating budget to the identification and recruitment of world-class mathematicians, computer scientists, researchers, traders along with a team of operations, sales, and support professionals distinguished by exceptional competence and an obsessive concern for detail. The firm maintains a constant watch for true superstars who might significantly add to its capabilities. 

By being an incubator for technology related business ventures, the Company’s strategic vision is to diversify, coupled with a focused approach. 

An acknowledged leader in the application of advanced computational technologies within the securities industry, D. E. Shaw & Co. invests heavily to maintain it's technical edge.It conduct advanced research on an ongoing basis within a research and development facility more reminiscent of Silicon Valley than Wall street. Their researchers and programmers are supported by a company-wide distributed computing environment incorporating UNIX-based Sun UltraSPARC file servers. On the client side, development is done on PC's running MS Windows NT. The company's Sun workstations and PCs are all connected via a high-speed, fault-tolerant TCP/IP network, and data connections with our international offices are maintained via dedicated high-speed satellite links. D. E. Shaw India Software focuses on distributed object-oriented computing, quantitative analysis, advanced database programming (OODBMS, RDBMS), Web-based computing (Java, ASP, XML), and network administration.

At D. E. Shaw India Software, informality is the general rule, with casual dress common and work hours flexible. The company puts a premium upon research and development, and gives it's employees ample opportunities to augment their considerable expertise. 

While many companies profess a commitment to a team philosophy, D. E. Shaw India Software takes this concept seriously. Software professionals work in small, informal, often intercontinental groups. Competition is kept to a minimum, and our software professionals are judged not only on their individual contributions but also on the impact they have on the work of their colleagues. 

D. E. Shaw India Software values results over hierarchy. Managers are integrated with groups of software professionals, and discussions are open and honest. This level of interaction ensures that individual contributions to the team are rapidly noticed, and that opportunities for swift advancement are considerable.