About FoundingMinds:
We are one of the preferred product development partners in the software industry. We work with clients across the globe to design and develop products for them. We are also an incubator for many startups. As a contributor, you will get an opportunity to work with different ideas, brainstorm with diverse people, widen your way of thinking, learn different technologies, research what you have to do, contribute your best to the projects and take ownership of what you do to your project. If you are passionate, you will find endless opportunities to build your career at Founding Minds.
Type: Consultant to Hire
We’re looking for an experienced C++ Developer with strong expertise in system-level programming and hands-on experience working on the TSL (Transport Security Layer). If you’re passionate about C++, love solving performance and security challenges, and are curious about robotics, this role could be a perfect fit for you.
Type: Consultant to Hire
We’re looking for an experienced C++ Developer with strong expertise in system-level programming and hands-on experience working on the TSL (Transport Security Layer). If you’re passionate about C++, love solving performance and security challenges, and are curious about robotics, this role could be a perfect fit for you.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance C++ applications focused on security and scalability.
- Work on the TSL layer, implementing and maintaining secure communication protocols.
- Optimize code for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust software solutions.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in C++ (C++11 or later).
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, multithreading, and memory management.
- Experience with TSL/SSL, encryption, and secure communication protocols.
- Familiarity with networking (TCP/IP, sockets programming).
- Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
- Experience working in Linux environments with tools like gdb or valgrind.
Nice to Have
- Experience with OpenSSL or similar libraries.
- Interest in robotics or real-time systems — even if you haven’t worked in the field before.
If you’re someone who enjoys deep technical challenges and is open to exploring how your expertise can extend into robotics, we’d love to connect.

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Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent degree in computer science
Min 1-3 years of experience in Python and backend technology
Development experience with programming languages like C/C++, Erlang, Elixir.
Experience in Python / Go Lang is a must
Experience in creating and dealing with REST API and socket technology
Working Knowledge of RabbitMQ and Kafka
Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases along with Redis and elastic search.
Working knowledge of network communication, TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc
Roles and Responsibilities:
Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
Write clean code to develop functional web applications
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Perform UI tests to optimize performance
Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
Gather and address technical and design requirements
Provide training and support to internal teams
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features
Follow emerging technologies
Optimizing multiple producers and multiple consumer system
Develop a Fault-tolerant application design.
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.
• C++ , Unix Environment ( Linux/AIX/HP UX), Oracle/MySQL
• Excellent command on OOPS
• Minimum of 3 years (for Mid and Junior) of hands-on work experience in C++, Unix
• Oracle/MySQL
• Hands-on experience of using data structures, STL, Boost libraries, Design patterns
• Exposure to XML or Edifact is desired
• Exposure to XSLT mappings is a plus
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Exposure to CppUnit (or similar tools)
Experience range:
• 4 to 8 years of experience
Joining Location:
• Pune, Gandhinagar & Hyderabad (Preferably Pune & Gandhinagar)
Quantum Corp. leads the world in helping users collaboratively solve some of the world's hardest computer challenges. Whether its wrangling Petabytes of data for cutting edge movie production, managing global content production workflows, exploring new sources of energy, or managing oceans of content and blending collaborative high-speed workflows with cutting-edge object storage, Quantum has the tools and technology to help you engineer the solution that works now - and preserves your work for decades to come. You are applying to an exceptional team that contributes to enhancing our position as a proven global expert in data management.
Job Summary and Duties:
This position will highlight new product development, as well as feature development and bug fixing of existing products serving the expanding big data, NAS, virtualization, replication, and file systems market. This position is required to be well rounded in operating system including all flavors of Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Building specialized core (user space and kernel space) software is the main function of this role.
Specific duties include but are not limited to:
• Development and maintenance of new Primary Storage products.
• Investigating and resolving issues in existing products related application workflows, cross-platform interactions, and new operating systems.
• Triage and disposition incoming issues from support cases, customer interactions, and new feature requests.
Job Requirements:
• Minimum 8 years of combined education and experience including 5 years of C/C++ programming.
• Expertise with SMB/NFS networking protocol stacks (Samba).
• Filesystem VFS layer expertise (Samba VFS modules).
• Experience with Python and Linux shell programming.
• Experience with SAN and Ethernet networking technologies.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills.
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of kernel internals including any of the following: Linux and Mac OS X.
• Interfaces with special purpose file system APIs and web services required.
• Knowledge and experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Knowledge and experience with Virtualization technologies: ESX, KVM
• Experience working in an Agile environment using CI methodologies.
- Experience - 6-10 years
- Key Skills for Software Developer C++, Linux with SQL:
- - Looking only for candidates who can join immediately or max 10 day
- - should be able to work independently with no handholding
- - the ability to work with C/C++ code on Windows/Linux platforms
- - Database knowledge of MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, ideally other ones too: Saphana, Teradata, Postgres.
- - Ability to work on their own fixing defects
- - should be able to understand secure coding practices
- - should have the Ability to work independently and with the team across different time zones
Founder’s LinkedIn profile
Dheeraj Pandey
(Founder, Investor, & Then-CEO of Nutanix / One of the Indian origin guy out of 10 Board Member of- Adobe / Alumni- IIT, Kanpur & University of Texas, Austin)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/
&
Chandra Nath
(Vice President- Nutanix/ Vice President, Head of International- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) – Alumni- IIT, Kanpur, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/
&
Manoj Agarwal
(Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Previously SVP Engineering & GM Hybrid Cloud at Nutanix/ Alumni- IIT, Kanpur)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Year founded: 2020.
- Work Location: Bangalore
- Team size: 35-40 (In US from companies like Google, Airbnb, Blizzard, Facebook, Palantir, Microsoft, CapitalOne, Nutanix and Confluent)
- Funding: 50 M USD (raised the largest seed round in the history of Silicon Valley)
Note:
We already have a team of 30-35 people in San Jose, California, United States, now we are building a new team in india and they are hiring 0-5 years of rock stars from top notch colleges (Top 5 ranked IIT’s only & BITS) & companies only.
Note:
Basically, I did not have the exact JD with myself, but I can arrange an Exploratory call for you with above senior and core members of a company (Dheeraj/Chandra/Manoj).
Job Role – Backend developer.
If you think, you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for next level of evaluation. (No Bar of budget for strong candidate).
Looking forward to taking you to the next level of technology.
Warm Regards,
Rahul Rajput
Senior talent acquisition
Software Engineer – C++ (3-6 years of experience)
1. Telecom/Volte LTE 2g 3g Preferred
2. Programming knowledge of multi-threading, sockets, IPCs.
3. Well versed with std and boost libraries.
4. Working knowledge of GNU compilers, optimization techniques on Unix/Linux based systems.
5. Proficient in debugging tools like GDB/Valgrind and profiling tools like oprofile.
6. Knowledge of Diameter (AAA) Stack
- Development experience of communication protocol stacks
- Hands on experience in multi-threaded design techniques and implementation
- Good hands-on experience on data structures and algorithms
Strong competencies in data structures and algorithms.
Optimizing algorithm and code for performance or memory.
Familiarity with Linux/UNIX tools.
Engineers from Tier 1 college

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Qualification : IITs/NITs/IIITs/BITS, pliani, Tier1/II Engineering Colleges
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