Backend Developer (Rust, Startups)

Position : Lead – Java Full Stack Developer

Experience : 7 to 12 Years

Location : Kochi / Thiruvananthapuram / Remote

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 1

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Java (Java 21, Spring Boot, and Hibernate), Angular (v19), and AWS to lead agile scrum teams and drive end-to-end feature delivery.

Key Skills Required :

• Java 21, Spring Boot MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Gradle
• Angular 19, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / RDBMS / NoSQL
• AWS services: S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Docker
• Unit Testing (Jasmine/Karma or Jest)
• Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong in design patterns, OOPs concepts, and performance optimization
• Excellent debugging and communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable full stack solutions
• Lead sprint tasks, perform code reviews, and ensure code quality
• Collaborate with stakeholders and convert requirements into technical specs
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and follow DevOps/CI-CD best practices
• Guide team members and promote technical best practices

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round
2. 2–3 Technical Rounds
3. Final Technical Discussion

Position: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Experience: 10+ Years

Budget: 1.7 LPM

Employment Type: [Contract]

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of proven backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs.
• Strong command of FastAPI and microservices architecture.
• Solid knowledge of debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Agentic Systems or ability to quickly adopt them.
• Exposure to modern CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

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.

Experice:5-6 Years
Notice: Immediate-20 Days(Max)

MUST HAVE SKILLS

1. Minimum 5+ years of experience in C#, .Net Core, Web API, MVC, and Entity Framework.

2. Strong object-oriented programming skills.

3. Very good communication skills.

4. Experience with RESTful APIs to connect other backend services.

5. Should have developed more than 2 applications.

6. CI/CD, GIT

7. Experience with performance improvement of applications.

8. Must have experience in Azure cloud (DevOps, AppService, and Azure functions)

LambdaTest is a cloud-based testing platform aimed at bringing the whole testing ecosystem to cloud. LambdaTest provides access to a powerful cloud network of 2000+ real browsers and operating system that helps testers in cross-browser and crossplatform compatibility testing. The product roadmap is evolving and there are many more functionalities and features which will be added to the product. The company is backed by the Tier 1 VC funds and entrepreneurs of the industry. We are growing at a fantastic rate. This is an incredible opportunity for someone talented and ambitious to make a huge impact.

Role

• Develop & maintain shared APIs, libraries and frameworks
• Improve the performance and reliability of our services including databases, CI/CD pipeline, web services, and other integrations
• Monitor and scale our cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with other teams on security, automation, and internal tools
• Evaluate and develop new tools and technologies that can help achieve company-level goals

Required Candidate profile

• 4 - 8 years of experience in Development.
• Should have good knowledge of backend Technologies like Python, Nodejs, Golang.
• Should have worked with Databases like Mysql, monogdb etc.
• Should have working experience in cloud environment.
• Engineering degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline from good institutes

Company Overview

CareStack is a complete cloud-based dental software solution for scheduling, clinical, billing, patient engagement, and reporting needs of dental offices of any size - whether it's a single location or a large multi-site DSO with hundreds of locations.

The company was founded in 2015 and the commercial launch was done in early 2018. Since then, more than 1000 offices have chosen CareStack as their single source of truth. This is the fastest growth till date in the dental practice management software market, dominated by 100 year old distribution companies.

More about CareStack

●    Rated by independent B2B software reviews and research analysts as the most modern, innovative and customer experience focussed company in the space with the fastest growth in the segment.

●    Important strategic go to market partnerships with dental industry leaders like Delta Dental, Darby Dental and several others.

●    Venture backed with over $60M raised from leading financial and strategic investors.

●    HQ'd in Orlando, FL with offices in Minnesota, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Cochin.

Role Overview

CareStack seeks to hire Software Development Engineer - 1 to build its next generation healthcare platform. You will be reporting to a Staff SDE in your business unit , to develop and release services and solutions for our platform, aligning with your business unit’s goals and objectives.

Key responsibilities

●    Technical Design

You can be a specialist in technology areas, but capable of creating complete designs to solve a specific problem that accomplishes a definitive product feature or enables a technical advancement.You should work with your lead to review your design and embrace the feedback

●    Process Definition/Adherence

You should deliver estimations, review test scenarios/cases created by QAs in your team, participate in sprint grooming and planning meetings. You must learn, practice and evangelize standard techniques for grooming, defining complexity of stories and estimation.

●    Code Quality

At Carestack we believe that your code reflects your character. Code for scale, produce maintainable reusable code. You must commit to clean coding, continuous refactoring to ensure a high level of code quality. Continuously learn, practice and evangelize coding patterns/best practices within and outside your team. You should ensure testability of team functional areas, facilitate integration testing, resolve deep rooted technical issues and proactively collaborate with team members in solving complex problems.

●    Team Player

You should proactively communicate to resolve dependencies within and outside the team. Understand organizations culture code and streamline conversations and activities that will further instill this code. Mentor and coach new additions to your team.

●    Value/Mission Alignment

Be a champion for CareStack within the Engineering team. Help drive workplace and cultural norms within your business unit that align with CareStack company values.

This role may be for you if you…

●    Have an insatiable itch to join and the courage to scale an early-stage technology company.

●    Have 2-4 years of experience in building modern day web platforms, using Microsoft technologies on the backend.

●    Can be a generalist or specialist with deep understanding of building software components that meet defined requirements, with good understanding of .NET Core/ASP.NET.

●    Are proficient in data structures and algorithms, and object oriented analysis and design of software systems.

●    Are a backend specialist with good understanding of event driven programming, distributed systems, caching/in-memory computing systems, data modeling for transactional systems.

●    Solid understanding of relational and non relational databases including warehouses.Preferably MySQL, MSSQL, Vertica and CosmosDB

●    Solid understanding of CI/CD patterns and IaC.

●    Expertise in building ETLs in both batch and streaming model.

●    Expertise in building and testing APIs and micro services

This role may not be for you if you…

●    Don’t have the itch to design solutions and write code and you don’t grab every other opportunity to review and write code.

●    Don’t have the fire in you to fight for your design suggestions and debate with logical data points

●    Don’t have the trait to be transactional in code reviews/design discussions, accept your mistakes and appreciate better ideas from your peers.

●    Haven’t developed the habit of doing objective conversations that are data driven.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Write well-designed, testable, efficient, and high-quality code.
• Design (LLD & HLD) and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a large-scale system.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Lead the backend engineering team with examples.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Node.Js
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in common Cloud technologies, AWS/GCP Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL (especially, but not only Redis), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ)
• Good stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• It is good to have knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies.