Data Engineer

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.

We are on the lookout for a talented Content Writer or Copywriter to join our dynamic team. If you have a proven track record of creating engaging, innovative digital content and driving brand awareness, we want to hear from you! This is an exciting opportunity to expand our digital footprint and connect with audiences through creative and data-driven content. You should have a deep understanding of Gen Z's likes and dislikes and be able to create content that resonates with them across various digital platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Content Creation: Conceptualize and write social media posts, reels, videos, ads, banners, and other forms of digital content.
• Copywriting: Develop concise, eye-catching, and innovative headlines and body copy for a range of digital materials.
• Research: Conduct research to source facts, statistics, and trends to inform and enhance content.
• Team Collaboration: Brainstorm and collaborate with the team on new ideas and strategies to elevate brand presence.
• Audience Engagement: Build and nurture a following on social media by producing engaging and shareable content.
• Competitive Research: Research industry trends and competitors to create original, innovative content that stands out.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work with campaign managers, creative teams, and designers to bring ideas to life.
• Content Variety: Write across multiple platforms, including websites, blogs, articles, social updates, case studies, guides, white papers, and more.
• Community Interaction: Respond to audience queries and comments on social media platforms.
• Additional Content Creation: Develop content for e-books, podcasts, and other digital formats.
• Content Gap Analysis: Identify gaps in existing content and recommend new topics based on customer needs and emerging trends.
• Consistency: Maintain consistency in tone, style, fonts, and images across all content.
• Editing: Review and edit content produced by other team members to ensure high quality and alignment with brand voice.
• Performance Analysis: Monitor marketing metrics and suggest content optimizations to improve engagement.
• Innovative Ideas: Collaborate with other departments to brainstorm and implement fresh, innovative content ideas.

Skills & Experience We Require:

• Proven Experience: Prior work experience as a content writer, copywriter, or in a similar role.
• Portfolio: A portfolio showcasing published articles, social media content, or other writing samples.
• Research Skills: Strong ability to conduct research using multiple sources to inform content creation.
• Writing & Editing: Excellent command of the English language with outstanding writing and editing skills.
• Deadline-Oriented: Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Creative Passion: A genuine passion for creating viral content and staying on top of trends.
• Gen Z Insight: Deep understanding of Gen Z preferences and the ability to tailor content to resonate with this demographic.
• Social Media Expertise: Experience creating engaging reels, ideating, storyboarding, scripting, and executing content, preferably using mobile devices.
• Collaboration: A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and is open to feedback and new ideas.

Pedigree:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in English, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field.

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Main tasks

• Test preparation (test design, creation of test specifications and test cases for regression tests and tests of new and further developments)
• Sprint-accompanying testing in the Scrum team
• Test evaluation/documentation of the test results
• Cypress testing tool hands-on experience for Automation testing
• Further development of existing test automation processes
• Close cooperation with the SOL business unit and the test departments at other locations

Qualification profile

• Completed degree or comparable training with an IT background
• Affinity and many years of experience in systematic testing of software products
• Excellent ability to work in a team and an independent, structured way of working
• Practical knowledge of the application of test methods and quality management standards as well as test automation knowledge is advantageous
• Fluent in English

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
• Perform product analysis and development tasks of an increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for AngularJS projects.
• Develop application code and unit test in the AngularJS, Rest Web Services and Java technologies for the Application Development Center. 
• Ensuring high performance

• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writicross-browser-compatibleble code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (AngularJS, JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)
• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)
• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)
• Hand on and implements complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

• 4-10 years of experience in software development.
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience on large scale Data applications.
• Strong coding experience in Java is mandatory
• Good aptitude, strong problem solving abilities, and analytical skills, ability to take ownership as appropriate
• Should be able to do coding, debugging, performance tuning and deploying the apps to Prod.
• Should have good working experience on
• o Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Yarn, File formats like Avro/Parquet)
• o Kafka
• o J2EE Frameworks (Spring/Hibernate/REST)
• o Spark Streaming or any other streaming technology.
• Strong coding experience in Java is mandatory
• Ability to work on the sprint stories to completion along with Unit test case coverage.
• Experience working in Agile Methodology
• Excellent communication and coordination skills
• Knowledgeable (and preferred hands on) - UNIX environments, different continuous integration tools.
• Must be able to integrate quickly into the team and work independently towards team goals

• Take the complete responsibility of the sprint stories' execution
• Be accountable for the delivery of the tasks in the defined timelines with good quality.
• Follow the processes for project execution and delivery.
• Follow agile methodology
• Work with the team lead closely and contribute to the smooth delivery of the project.
• Understand/define the architecture and discuss the pros-cons of the same with the team
• Involve in the brainstorming sessions and suggest improvements in the architecture/design.
• Work with other team leads to get the architecture/design reviewed.
• Work with the clients and counter-parts (in US) of the project.
• Keep all the stakeholders updated about the project/task status/risks/issues if there are any.

1) Core PHP: Yes/No(Mandatory)

2) JavaScript and JQuery: Yes/No(Mandatory)

3) Ajax: Yes/No

4) Curl: Yes/No

Github will be an added advantage

MYSQL: 

Stored Procedures: Yes/No

Indexes: Added advantage

Triggers: Added advantage