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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.


What are the Key Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services.
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Improve functionality of existing systems
- Implement security and data protection solutions
- Assess and prioritize feature requests
- Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
- Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
- Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
- Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems
What are we looking for:
- 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
- Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
- Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
- Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management



● Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning,
estimation and execution.
● Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
● Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
● Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
● Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
● Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
● Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
● Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
● Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
● Contributes in tech recruitment efforts
Ideal Candidate Profile
● Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
● Should have experience in cloud computing
● Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
● Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
● Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
● Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
● Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
● Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
● Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
● Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data
Structures, Algorithms
● 8+ years of experience in product driven organization
● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)
- Coordinating with the design team, apps team.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming, event-based programming, its quirks, and workarounds.
- Working on system design problems, understanding various tech frameworks, what specific problems they solve, what new problems they give rise to, and architectures that work at scale.
- Taking risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes.
- Brainstorming between various approaches, doing small experiments to test hypotheses, aligning the team to follow a particular approach, being thorough in your research.
- Collaborating well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together
- Pushing for continuous improvement to existing processes.
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- Hands-on experience with MERN stack.
- experience in Agile/SCRUM methodology and modern tools like Jira, Slack, GitHub, etc.
- Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka/Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
- Microservices architecture, orchestration between various services, error-handling.
- Project Management, Reporting
- Insatiably curious.
- Obsessed with putting the best-in-class systems in place
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Work as a Web Developer to create front end & backend of websites
- Play a key role in the design lifecycle, from brief through to design and release/implementation
- Should have good knowledge of HTML, CSS, REACT JS, NODE JS, POSTGRES, GIT, REST API.
- A good understanding of servers, hosting, domains, DNS
- Ensure all designs work across all browsers and on all devices
- Help to design elements of mobile apps
- Ensure all designs are produced to deliver a great user experience
Key Skills/Experience:
- A minimum of one year of experience in designing and developing websites and web apps
- Good working experience in React JS, Redux, JavaScript ES6, NodeJS, AJAX, HTML, CSS, etc
- Knowledge about REST API
- Who has worked on libraries such as Bootstrap, Material is.
- Experience with Unit testing, Git, GitHub, and other DevOps and CI/CD tool
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates a range of work and techniques
- A passion for strong web design that delivers a great user experience
- A good understanding of the latest web design trends
Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
- Provide support till deployment of code into production.
- Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
- Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
- Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
- Conduct peer code review.
What candidate should know about:
- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
- Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
- Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
- Self-learning abilities are required
- Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus




Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.



