Backend Developer

About the Role

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to build the infrastructure that powers AI agents in enterprise environments. You will work on systems that securely run, manage, monitor, and govern AI agents as they interact with users, business applications, and external tools.

This role combines backend engineering, distributed systems, AI agent infrastructure, security, and platform development.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the core runtime that manages AI agent execution and lifecycle.
• Develop systems for message processing, task orchestration, queue management, and recovery from failures.
• Design secure communication and execution boundaries between AI agents and the host platform.
• Build and enhance sandboxed environments for safe tool and code execution.
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components.
• Build admin interfaces and APIs for configuring agents, permissions, approvals, and audits.
• Implement capability, access control, and permission management systems.
• Develop durable memory and state management systems for AI agents.
• Build integrations with communication platforms, business applications, and external systems.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design, develop, test, and ship new capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, or another modern typed programming language.
• Experience building scalable, distributed, and event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of databases, transactions, queues, background workers, and system reliability.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs and backend services.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools and assistants in daily development workflows.
• Understanding of AI agent frameworks, agent workflows, tool calling, context management, or agent orchestration concepts.
• Strong knowledge of system design, security principles, authentication, authorization, and access control.
• Experience debugging, optimizing, and maintaining production systems.
• Ability to work independently in large codebases and deliver high-quality solutions.

Good to Have

• Experience with AI agent frameworks or SDKs.
• Experience building developer platforms, admin consoles, or management systems.
• Knowledge of sandboxing, process isolation, containers, or secure execution environments.
• Experience with distributed systems concepts such as ordering, retries, idempotency, and fault recovery.
• Experience designing extensible architectures and integration platforms.
• Exposure to AI infrastructure, LLM applications, or autonomous agent systems.

What We're Looking For

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Security-first mindset.
• Experience building reliable production systems.
• Interest in AI agents and AI infrastructure.
• Ability to move quickly, solve complex technical problems, and work in a fast-paced environment.

At Pipaltree, we’re building an AI-enabled platform that helps brands understand how they’re truly perceived — not through surveys or static dashboards, but through real conversations happening across the world.

We’re a small team solving deep technical and product challenges: orchestrating large-scale conversation data, applying reasoning and summarization models, and turning this into insights that businesses can trust.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous programming in Python
• Experience with building scalable applications using LLMs or traditional ML techniques
• Experience with Databases, Cache, and Micro services
• Experience with DevOps is a huge plus

About the Role

At Ceryneian, we’re building a next-generation, research-driven algorithmic trading platform aimed at democratizing access to hedge fund-grade financial analytics. Headquartered in California, Ceryneian is a fintech innovation company dedicated to empowering traders with sophisticated yet accessible tools for quantitative research, strategy development, and execution.

Our flagship platform is currently under development. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a foundational role in designing and building the core trading engine and research infrastructure from the ground up. Your work will focus on developing performance-critical components that power backtesting, real-time strategy execution, and seamless integration with brokers and data providers. You’ll be responsible for bridging core engine logic with Python-based strategy interfaces, supporting a modular system architecture for isolated and scalable strategy execution, and building robust abstractions for data handling and API interactions. This role is central to delivering the reliability, flexibility, and performance that our users will rely on in fast-moving financial markets.

We are a remote-first team and are open to hiring exceptional candidates globally.

Core Tasks

·      Build and maintain the trading engine core for execution, backtesting, and event logging.

·      Develop isolated strategy execution runners to support multi-user, multi-strategy environments.

·      Implement abstraction layers for brokers and market data feeds to offer a unified API experience.

·      Bridge the core engine language with Python strategies using gRPC, ZeroMQ, or similar interop technologies.

·      Implement logic to parse and execute JSON-based strategy DSL from the strategy builder.

·      Design compute-optimized components for multi-asset workflows and scalable backtesting.

·      Capture real-time state, performance metrics, and slippage for both live and simulated runs.

·      Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to support high-availability deployments.

Top Technical Competencies

·      Proficiency in distributed systems, concurrency, and system design.

·      Strong backend/server-side development skills using C++, Rust, C#, Erlang, or Python.

·      Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms with a focus on low-latency performance.

·      Experience with event-driven and messaging-based architectures (e.g., ZeroMQ, Redis Streams).

·      Familiarity with Linux-based environments and system-level performance tuning.

Bonus Competencies

·      Understanding of financial markets, asset classes, and algorithmic trading strategies.

·      3–5 years of prior Backend experience.

·      Hands-on experience with backtesting frameworks or financial market simulators.

·      Experience with sandboxed execution environments or paper trading platforms.

·      Advanced knowledge of multithreading, memory optimization, or compiler construction.

·      Educational background from Tier-I or Tier-II institutions with strong computer science fundamentals, a passion for scalable system design, and a drive to build cutting-edge fintech infrastructure.

What We Offer

·      Opportunity to shape the backend architecture of a next-gen fintech startup.

·      A collaborative, technically driven culture.

·      Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.

·      Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment for candidates across the globe.

·      Exposure to financial modeling, trading infrastructure, and real-time applications.

·      Collaboration with a world-class team from Pomona, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont McKenna.

Ideal Candidate

You’re a backend-first thinker who’s obsessed with reliability, latency, and architectural flexibility. You enjoy building scalable systems that transform complex strategy logic into high-performance, real-time trading actions. You think in microseconds, architect for fault tolerance, and build APIs designed for developer extensibility.

Position: Backend Developer 1 / Backend Engineer:

Location: Bangalore

Experience:  .5 to 4 years, preferably in an agile environment

Strong Knowledge Node.js and MongoDB
Good Knowledge on Flask, SQL and other databases
Good Knowledge on Deployment Process (Nginix, Docker, AWS, Digital Ocean)
Basic Knowledge on Python

MoEngage is a fast-paced startup that’s helping companies run smart marketing efforts in their effort to reach the customer. We are a leading Marketing Technology Stack provider that is helping brands redefine their customer engagement in the mobile era. Brands use MoEngage to drive long-term, personalised and context-based engagement across channels to help achieve increased customer retention as well as customer LTV. Sitting at a conflux of diverse technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Web & Mobile platforms, MoEngage technology analyses billions of data points generated by customers and their devices, to predict customer behavior and build marketing campaigns that proactively engage users.

In just four years since inception, MoEngage is working with leading brands across e-commerce, entertainment, travel, publishing and banking domains among others. With marquee clients like Vodafone, Oyo, Airtel, McAfee, MoEngage has over 125+ paying Customers in the Enterprise & Internet companies space in India, US, South East Asia & EU. With a global presence spanning 35 countries, MoEngage has offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Jakarta, and Bengaluru.

Today, MoEngage is an industry pioneer in the space and engages more than 350M devices. This includes approximately 40B events tracked per month, 30B+ messages sent, to millions of users across the globe.

As part of the Engineering team at MoEngage, here are some things you can expect:

• Take ownership and be responsible for what you build - no micro management
• Work with A players (some of the best talent in the country), and expedite your learning curve and career growth
• Make in India and build for the world at scale of 350M active users, which no other internet company in the country has seen
• Learn together from different teams on how they scale to millions of users and billions of messages. 
• Explore the latest in topics like Data Pipeline, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Spark, Samza and share with the team 

and more importantly have fun while you work on scaling MoEngage.

Push team is one of the core teams at MoEngage, responsible for sending close to a billion notifications everyday to help clients engage their users better. As a member of the Push team, you will be working on developing high performance solutions to deliver personalised and context-based notifications across various channels to help achieve increased customer retention as well as customer LTV. You will also be working on designing and building features to help clients to provide customised experience for end users allowing them to have a more personalised experience at scale. Here you will have a chance to own systems and develop features end to end i.e right from inception to deployment. Though we work at scale, reliability is of utmost importance for us and we build in house solutions like Campaign Watcher & AutoBatchRunner to ensure 100% transparency and delivery of notifications

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems
• Familiarity with Python related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructure - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Tech Stack - Python, Falcon, Elastic Search, MongoDB, AWS (SQS S3), Linux, Map Reduce