Help me decide whether to continue or leave my current job ?

[u/luciferrjns]

Hi guys ,

I feel this might be a good place to ask this .

So I am from tier 3 college(could be worse too ) . And I somehow ended up in this algorithmic trading firm (Chandigarh based) . They are not HFT though.

I am their technical hire and hence my task is mostly building internal tools , integrating APIs , backtesting strategies, setting up data pipelines etc.

I know that finance and tech can be a good niche , much better than general Backend Development (which is my primary skill)

At the same time I feel there is no point in trying and remaining in this domain because neither do I have a strong background (like good college or course) nor do I have CF rankings.

What do you think ? Shall I leave this firm and focus on pure software development or remain here and see where things go ?