
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.

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NOW HIRING · WORLD-CLASS TALENT Backend Tech Lead (Senior Level Engineering Leadership)
Placed by Recruiting Bond on behalf of a Confidential Digital Platform Leader
📍Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid / On-Site)
🏢Sector: Technology, Information & Media
👥Company Size: 500 – 1,000 Employees
💼Employment: Full-Time, Permanent
🎯Experience: 6 – 9 Years (Backend Engineering)
🚀 Level: Tech Lead
ABOUT THIS MANDATE
Recruiting Bond has been exclusively retained by one of India's most well-established digital platform organisations — a company operating at the intersection of Technology, Information, and Media — to identify and place a world-class Backend Tech Lead who can drive a transformational engineering agenda at scale.
This is not an ordinary role. The organisation is executing a high-stakes, large-scale modernisation of its backend infrastructure — migrating from legacy monolithic systems to resilient, cloud-native, AI-augmented distributed architectures that serve millions of concurrent users. The person in this seat will be a core pillar of that transformation.
We are looking exclusively for the top 1% — engineers who think in systems, own outcomes, and lead by example.
THE OPPORTUNITY AT A GLANCE
🏗️ Architecture Ownership
Drive system design decisions across the entire backend platform. Shape the future of distributed, fault-tolerant architecture.
🤖 AI-Augmented Engineering
Embed GenAI and LLM tooling directly into the SDLC. Champion automation-first development practices across squads.
🎓 Engineering Leadership
Mentor and grow the next generation of backend engineers. Lead hiring, reviews, and cross-functional technical alignment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Architecture & Platform Modernisation
- Lead the full migration of legacy monolithic systems to a scalable, cloud-native microservices architecture
- Design and own distributed, fault-tolerant backend systems with sub-millisecond SLO targets
- Architect API-first and event-driven platforms using async messaging patterns (Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS)
- Resolve systemic performance bottlenecks, concurrency conflicts, and scalability ceilings
- Establish backend design standards, coding guidelines, and architectural review processes
2. Distributed Systems Engineering (Production-Grade)
- Design and implement Webhook reliability frameworks with intelligent retry and exponential backoff strategies
- Build idempotent, versioned APIs with enterprise-grade rate limiting and throttling controls
- Implement circuit breakers, bulkheads, and resilience patterns using Resilience4j / Hystrix or equivalents
- Engineer Dead-Letter Queue (DLQ) strategies and event reprocessing pipelines with guaranteed delivery semantics
- Apply Saga orchestration and choreography patterns for distributed transaction integrity
- Execute zero-downtime deployments and canary release strategies with rollback capability
- Design and enforce multi-region disaster recovery and business continuity protocols
3. AI-Driven Engineering Practices
- Champion LLM and GenAI adoption as first-class tooling across the software development lifecycle
- Apply prompt engineering techniques for automated code generation, review, and documentation workflows
- Utilise AI-assisted debugging, root cause analysis, and predictive performance optimisation
- Build automation-first pipelines that reduce toil and accelerate delivery velocity
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI developer tools into the engineering ecosystem
4. Engineering Leadership & Culture
- Own backend platforms end-to-end with full accountability across development, stability, and performance
- Actively mentor, coach, and elevate engineers at all levels (L3–L6) through structured 1:1s and code reviews
- Drive and lead technical hiring — from designing assessments to final hire decisions
- Partner with Product, Data, DevOps, and Security stakeholders to align engineering with business objectives
- Represent the engineering org in cross-functional roadmap planning and architecture decision reviews
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and high-velocity delivery
TECHNOLOGY STACK (HANDS-ON PROFICIENCY REQUIRED)
Languages: Java (primary) · Go · Python · Node.js · PHP · Rust
Cloud: AWS · GCP · Azure (Multi-cloud exposure preferred)
Containers: Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · Service Mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
Databases: PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Cassandra · Redis · Elasticsearch
Messaging: Apache Kafka · RabbitMQ · AWS SQS/SNS · Google Pub/Sub
Observability: Datadog · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · ELK Stack
CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions · Jenkins · ArgoCD · Terraform · Ansible
AI & GenAI: OpenAI / Claude APIs · LangChain · RAG Pipelines · GitHub Copilot · Cursor
QUALIFICATIONS & CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education
- B.E. / B.Tech or M.E. / M.Tech from a Tier-I or Tier-II Institution — CS, IS, ECE, AI/ML streams strongly preferred
- Exceptional real-world engineering track record may be considered in lieu of institution pedigree
Experience
- 6 to 9 years of progressive backend engineering experience with demonstrable ownership and impact
- Proven track record of shipping and scaling production SaaS / Product systems at significant user load
- Exposure to and success within start-up, mid-size, and large-scale product organisations — the full spectrum
- Strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, distributed systems theory, OS internals
- Demonstrated career stability — minimum 2 years average tenure per organisation
- The Ideal Candidate Exemplifies
- System-level thinking with an ability to hold context across code, architecture, product, and business
- An ownership mindset — no task is 'not my job'; outcomes and quality are personal commitments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for asynchronous, cross-functional collaboration
- Intellectual curiosity: actively follows engineering trends, contributes to the community (OSS, blogs, talks)
- Bias for automation, observability, and engineering efficiency at every level
- A mentor's instinct — genuine desire to grow others and raise the capability of the team around them
WHY THIS ROLE STANDS APART
✅ Transformational Scope
Lead platform modernisation at scale. Your architectural choices will define systems serving millions of users for years.
✅ AI-Forward Engineering Culture
Be at the forefront of AI-augmented development. This org invests in tools and practices that make great engineers exceptional.
✅ Established, Stable Platform
Join a company with 500–1,000 employees, proven product-market fit, and the resources to execute on a serious technical vision.
✅ Career-Defining Leadership
Operate with strategic influence, direct access to senior leadership, and a clear path toward Principal / Staff / VP Engineering.
HOW TO APPLY
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Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using Python and React.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other developers to build user-friendly interfaces and seamless APIs.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Debug and resolve technical issues promptly.
- Implement unit and integration tests to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to team best practices.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience with Python and React.
- Strong understanding of JavaScript, ES6+, and TypeScript (preferred).
- Proficient in building RESTful APIs and integrating with frontend frameworks.
- Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Context API).
- Familiarity with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Experience with modern build tools and package managers like Webpack, Babel, NPM, or Yarn.
- Hands-on experience with version control tools, particularly Git.
- Knowledge of containerization and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
quality over quantity.
Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
important to us.
The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
Do you have what it takes?
· Proficient in C, C++ development, OS concepts, Data Structures, Distributed computing, and Algorithms.
· Actively engaged in projects related to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
· Excellent problem-solving capability with strong fundamentals in Computer Science.
· Highly proficient in data structures and algorithms.
· Ability to pick up new technologies rapidly to convert specifications to low level design.
· Ability to clearly communicate the intent and approach when producing a code design document.
How can you contribute to our success?
· Develop frontend as well as backend components for delivering product on cloud platforms.
· Participate in activities that lead up to the code design. This may include activities such as developing prototypes, proof of concept, compare pros and cons of various implementation choices being considered and recommending the most appropriate one.
· Mentor and influence junior developers to adhere to good coding standards and become quality conscious.
· Review critical pieces of code that are developed as per this code design.
· Ensure that the code being delivered is of the highest quality.
· Ensure appropriate unit tests and functional as well as non-functional tests are considered.
· Conceptualize and work towards building processes, methodology, and tools to improve team’s ability to deliver high quality software.
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We’re a small team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build the next generation eCommerce platform and equal the playing field for all. Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk!
We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Additional Job requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
- BS in computer science or related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
- Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization









