Scala Developer

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 looking for a customer-obsessed, analytical Sr. Staff Engineer to lead the development and growth of our Tax Compliance product suite. In this role, you’ll shape innovative digital solutions that simplify and automate tax filing, reconciliation, and compliance workflows for businesses of all sizes. You will join a fast-growing company where you’ll work in a dynamic and competitive market, impacting how businesses meet their statutory obligations with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

As the Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll work closely with product, DevOps, and data teams to architect reliable systems, drive engineering excellence, and ensure high availability across our platform. We’re looking for a technical leader who’s not just an expert in building scalable systems, but also passionate about mentoring engineers and shaping the future of fintech.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
• Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python.
• Experience in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Architect and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform with a DevOps-first mindset.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and compliance experts to deliver features that make tax compliance seamless for our users.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Experience in fintech, tax, or compliance industries.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Background in security, observability, or compliance automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or principal-level role.
• Deep expertise in Python, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
• Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/RabbitMQ-like systems.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Exp: 4-6 years

Position: Backend Engineer

Job Location: Bangalore ( office near cubbon park - opp JW marriott)

Work Mode : 5 days work from office 

Requirements:

● Engineering graduate with 3-5 years of experience in software product development.

● Proficient in Python, Node.js, Go

● Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL

● Strong Experience in designing and building APIs

● Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications

● A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation

● Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture

● Experience implementing Unit and Integration testing

● Exposure to the Finance domain is preferred

● Strong written and oral communication skills

• Candidate Should have 5+ Years Of Experience in Core Java
• You will need strong development skills to work on and improve our Scala-based services, and be able to work together with senior teammates to create appropriate architectural design and ensure all aspects are appropriate to meet the business need.
• Excellent Functional Design and Functional Programming skills (more than 2 years of business experience in Scala and Java projects, respectively)
• Core skills in key supporting technologies and/or frameworks such as Play (AKKA) / Lagom
• Proven experience working in teams in the successful delivery of complex, performant and high quality products
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Experience of SaaS (Software as a Service) environments
• Exposure to RESTful web APIs and a service oriented architecture
• Experience in Linux environments, Shell scripting etc
• Working with XML and JSON including parsing, asserting / matching and extracting
• Experience with Continuous Integration environments and build tools, including Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle and Ant
• Experience with messaging systems such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS and Rabbit MQ
• Experience working on Live platform SDKs such as Twilio, AWS Elemental

Backend Developer

Qualification: B.Tech./MCA, BCA in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience:     3 - 6 Years

Skills Required:

• Must Have: Java, Spring/ springboot
• Any 2 (Must) out of the below mentioned list :

1. JPA/Hibernate
2. Messaging queue/Kafka/SQS/distributed message/SNS/JMS
3. NOSQL/ Aerospike/ Reddis /Cassendra
4. Microservices

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Technical design, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Partner with Business Analysts to review and implement business

requirements.

• Perform development and unit testing, working closely with Business.
• Mentors and oversees development of resources, including reviewing designs and performing code reviews.
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Developing high - volume, low - latency applications for mission - critical systems and delivering high - availability and performance
• Should have experience of working on Core Java/J2EE & OOPS concept
• Should be well versed with Spring/Struts & Apache Came l (OSGI Framework)
• Should have a good understanding of Hibernate and Other ORMs
• Should have an understanding of working on Web Service (SOAP/REST) and Maven
• Build tool such as Jenkins
• Caching Technique(Radis, Hazlecast, Aerospike)
• Database Knowledge- Oracle, MySQL

Role- Software Development Engineer-2

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Roles & Responsibilities
• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.

• A hands-on application developer who is passionate about Java development, building highly scalable and resilient applications, and focused on solving complex business problems
• He/She will have responsibility for unit-level design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, and participating in the full SDLC
• He/She will be expected to produce high-quality code that can pass critical peer review, and to work under a high-pressure and timeline-driven environment.
• Actively participate in development along with team members in creating modules & systems that can be treated as a working reflection of the best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Java development
• Responsible, organized and possess critical thinking with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to demonstrate good analytical problem-solving abilities and strong leadership aptitude
• Able to work at both abstract and detailed level
• Must be fluent in English, and strong communication skills.
• Motivated self-starter that likes to work as part of a team

Technical Requirements

• Strong experience in Core Java 8 and above, Collections and Data structures.
• Develop solutions using core java, Spring / Spring Boot, JSON, Rest API and other web technologies
• Hands on with UI development with strong experience in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Responsive UIs. Added advantage for exposure to Angular. Knowledge on Liferay will be added advantage. Ability to design and develop UIs and end to end integration.
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Hibernate and Mybatis)
• Strong knowledge of test-driven development and continuous integration
• Preference towards candidates having excellent Java multi-threading skills
• Passion for collaboration and working on agile teams
• Develop and Consume Web Services using REST.
• Enforcing and Writing code following good standards (well documented with good code coverage and properly tested code)