Senior Frontend 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 our Frontend / Full Stack Engineer, you’ll lead the creation of a stunning, intuitive user experience—spanning our landing page, drag-and-drop strategy builder, trading dashboards, and internal tools. You’ll collaborate closely with design, backend, and DevOps teams to build high-performance, secure, and scalable customer-facing applications. This role is central to delivering the reliability, flexibility, and performance 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

·      Design, build, and deploy customer-facing interfaces, including the strategy builder, dashboards, and marketplace.

·      Implement reusable UI components based on Figma designs; integrate charting tools like TradingView or Highcharts.

·      Own the frontend development pipeline, including prototyping, implementation, testing, and responsiveness.

·      Implement secure authentication and user management (OAuth2, JWT, multi-role access).

·      Build real-time web experiences using WebSockets, REST, and client-server integrations.

·      Collaborate with backend and DevOps teams to streamline data flow and deployment workflows.

Top Technical Competencies

·      Strong foundation in HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript.

·      Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks such as React (Next.js), Svelte, Angular, Vue, or Phoenix.

·      Experience with OAuth2 and secure authentication workflows.

·      Familiarity with server-side rendering (SSR) and modern state management (Zustand, Redux, MobX).

·      Integration experience with charting libraries such as TradingView, Recharts, or Highcharts.

·      Deployment experience using platforms like Vercel, Heroku, GCP, or AWS.

·      Working knowledge of WebSockets, REST APIs, and data streaming models.

·      0–3 years of frontend development experience.

Bonus Competencies

·      Familiarity with Supabase, PostgreSQL, Firebase, or MongoDB.

·      Understanding of microfrontend architectures or API Gateway patterns.

·      Experience with WebAssembly and real-time trading interfaces.

·      Exposure to fintech platforms or trading systems.

·      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.

Ideal Candidate

You’re a design-minded full stack engineer who builds fast, clean, and modular frontend systems. You thrive on making complex interfaces intuitive—turning strategy logic into drag-and-drop workflows—and can ship high-performance components that integrate seamlessly with real-time APIs. You value design systems, scalable frontends, and cross-functional collaboration.

What We Offer

·      Opportunity to shape the product interface 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.

·      Exposure to financial modeling, trading infrastructure, and real-time systems.

·      Collaboration with a world-class team from Pomona, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont McKenna.

Requirements

• 2.5+ years of experience in React JS and Redux
• Expert in React.j, ideally using TypeScript language extensions
• Good understanding of JavaScript Design Patterns
• Good experience writing front-end test cases
• HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive web design are mandatory
• Exposure to Scrum methodology and XP technical practices such as unit testing, pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration or continuous delivery
• Self-motivated, fast learner, detail-oriented, team player and a sense of humour
• Should have experience with Payment(US) Integrations
• Should have experience with Ecommerce/ERP Connectors

• Full stack product engineering i.e. design, engineer, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software components to QA and Production environments
• Design & engineer product experience & APIs conforming to defined quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance KPIs
• Build, maintain, and improve continuous integration and delivery lifecycle processes
• Automation of repetitive engineering and production activities

• Engineering in computer science
• 3+ year of relevant experience in product engineering with expertise in building frameworks, reusable components, and APIs
• Expert level skills in analytical & problem solving
• Strong programming and engineering fundamentals like Data Structures,
• Design Principles, TDD, and Performance Tuning to build scalable and performance optimized product
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

• HTML5
• CSS3 (Sass/Less)
• JQuery
• JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
• React.js
• Version Control : Git

Must Have

Degree in Computer Science or related field.
3 - 4 years’ experience in Angular or React.
Expertise in responsive and adaptive front end design and development. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
Experience is RESTful web services.
Understanding of key design principles.
Experience in version control using Git, CI-CD principles.
Good problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal communication skills.
Good interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator. Understanding of SEO principles.
Knowledge of Cloud technologies like AWS or Azure. 

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it 3.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wire frames into high quality code
• Construct visualisations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
• Work with product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of web standards
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript concepts and fundamentals
• Strong understanding of ReactJs. development, and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience of working with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiar with HTML, CSS and SCSS development
• Knowledge of bundlers such as Gulp/Web pack, ES6, Node etc..
• B.Tech from Tier 1 college.
• 3+ yrs of experience with front end technologies HTML and JavaScript
• 1+ yrs of Project experience with react