Senior Software engineer-PCL

As a C++ developer working in front office electronic trading, your role involves developing and maintaining software solutions for trading systems used in financial markets. Here are some key aspects of your responsibilities:

C++ Programming: Mastery of the C++ programming language is essential, as most trading systems are built using C++ due to its performance and efficiency.

Electronic Trading Systems: You'll work with electronic trading systems that execute trades automatically based on predefined algorithms or user instructions. Understanding order execution, order management, and market data processing is crucial.

Multithreading: Multithreading is vital in electronic trading systems to handle concurrent tasks efficiently. You'll need to design, implement, and debug multithreaded applications to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Low-Latency Systems: Electronic trading often requires low-latency systems to execute trades swiftly. You'll optimize code and algorithms to minimize latency and ensure timely order execution.

Algorithmic Trading: Knowledge of algorithmic trading strategies and implementing them in software is advantageous. This includes understanding mathematical models, statistical analysis, and risk management.

Networking: Understanding network protocols and communication is necessary for connecting trading systems to exchanges, brokers, and other financial institutions. This involves working with TCP/IP, UDP, and messaging protocols like FIX (Financial Information Exchange).

Risk Management: You'll implement risk controls and safeguards in trading systems to prevent erroneous trades or mitigate risks associated with market volatility.

Testing and Debugging: Thorough testing and debugging are crucial to ensure the reliability and stability of trading systems. You'll write automated tests, perform manual testing, and debug issues to maintain system integrity.

Performance Optimization: Continuously optimizing the performance of trading systems is essential to handle increasing trading volumes and maintain competitiveness. This involves profiling code, identifying bottlenecks, and applying optimizations.

Regulatory Compliance: Adhering to regulatory requirements and standards in the financial industry is critical. You'll ensure that trading systems comply with regulations such as MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, and others applicable to electronic trading.

Collaboration: Working closely with traders, quants, risk managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and implement solutions that meet business needs.

Documentation: Maintaining clear and comprehensive documentation for code, algorithms, and system architecture is important for knowledge sharing and compliance purposes.

Overall, being a C++ developer in front office electronic trading requires a strong technical foundation, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and demanding environment.

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.

Your tool box :

 Exp: 4+ Strong C/C++/C#/.net Core development skills with a good understanding of object-

oriented and multi-threaded design.

 Strong background of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)

 Passionate to learn and explore new technologies and demonstrates good analysis and

problem-solving skills.

 Good written and verbal communication skills, should be a quick learner and a team player.

 B.E. /B-Tech (CS/IT) • MCA/M.E./M-Tech (CS/IT)

Big Plus [ Mastering one or more of below ]:

 Network troubleshooting skills [ TCP/IP, SSH, HTTPS ]

 Hands on Kubernetes and Cloud environment

 Hands On experience on UNIX or LINUX operating systems.

 Strong with VoIP technologies [ SIP and RTP ]

 Good understating of SOA architecture

• Develop, design, and implement embedded applications.
• Prepares appropriate documentation as required by internal product development processes and regulatory agencies such as FDA and ISO.
• Write technical specifications for interfaces and testing.
• Design and develop medical device software products with extensive knowledge of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the Software Development field.
• Conducts and participates in the design, code, and test reviews and inspections, ensuring application of software engineering best practices, as well as the feasibility, efficacy, and compliance to functional and regulatory standards.
• Works closely with the software team, the software verification team, the functional manager, and the project manager.
• Collaborates with distributed, cross-functional teams to ensure products meet quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and schedule goals.
• Investigates software, hardware, and system problems using a variety of techniques and provides innovative solutions.
• Conduct and participate in reviews and inspections for all elements in the software lifecycle to ensure that our software quality and customer satisfaction goals are achieved

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software or Electronics related Engineering discipline or related field with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience designing and developing embedded solutions.
• Proficient in programming languages - C, C++.
• Ability to understand the electrical schematics and work closely with the electrical team.
• Experience with Real-Time Operating Systems.
• Experience writing/interfacing with device drivers
• Experience with CAN, TCP/IP, RS232 communication protocols
• Experience in Agile development processes and philosophies.
• History of driving project execution and timely delivery while ensuring a quality focus.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, and often ambiguous environment where continuous improvement is a way of life.
• Excellent teaming skills to work with cross-functional and in a multi-site software team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with In Vitro Diagnostic domain is a plus.
• Experience with OOA/OOD development methodologies and design patterns a plus.
• Understanding software development processes for a regulated environment (ISO9000/FDA) a plus.
• Experience in medical device design & development a plus.

## Please apply if you have experience working on Trading Applications, all others would be automatically rejected ###

Our Core team develops connectivity software for low latency communication with derivatives exchanges all over the world, as well as real-time position and risk limit monitoring. The team's expertise is also relied upon by other C++ development groups to produce high-quality libraries and frameworks for their application development. We have a high degree of freedom and responsibility to produce technologically advanced solutions to demanding real-world problems.

From joining you will have ownership on a diverse set of projects that have a direct impact on trading performance. You will work closely with highly skilled colleagues who share your enthusiasm and deep knowledge of C++, Linux and network protocols, and share your hunger to learn more.

What We Are Looking For

• An experienced Modern C++ developer (C++17/20), with minimum 5 years experience and proficiency with C++ templates.
• A developer, who designs code to push every performance boundary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively.

• Knowledge of multiple exchanges.
• Ultra low latency design.
• Template metaprogramming.
• Network programming experience.
• Python.

• A great engineering environment whereby technology is key to our success and a C++20 code base.
• Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
• Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have significant impact.

About Clari

Clari uses AI and automation to drive growth and retention for high-performing revenue teams. Clari’s Revenue Operations platform is currently processing over $300 billion in pipeline, and is used by over 50,000 marketing, sales and customer success professionals across 170 countries. Customers include market leaders like Symantec, Adobe, Alteryx, Workday, Lenovo, Zoom, Medallia, Alteryx and hundreds of others.  Clari harvests and analyzes activity signals from dozens of different business systems, including email, calendar, CRM, marketing automation, to shorten sales cycles, increase win rates, and make revenue more predictable. 

The result is passionate and frankly humbling customer loyalty. We consistently hear from our customers how we’ve changed their lives - just check out the reviews on https://www.g2crowd.com/products/clari/reviews">G2 Crowd. It never gets old, and we never take it for granted.

Clari is looking for several key experienced engineering who will focus on implementing many different areas of our solution, including but not limited to our overall web architecture, core application features such as data science driven analytics, user management, content management, social graph integration, personalization, emails, collaboration systems and enterprise content repositories as well as on unstructured data analytics, machine learning and our relevance engine.

Join our core applications team where you’ll work with truly remarkable colleagues on highly diverse, complex, and relevant problems while building scalable applications designed to service millions of mobile and web-based information workers. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and others in a cross functional environment on multiple projects, from concept phase through testing, launch and ongoing operations.

We work in an open, collaborative environment and seek exceptional developers who enjoy problem solving and straying outside the routine. You will also contribute to the growth of Clari by being a Brand Ambassador and assist in the hiring of great talent.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional server development experience using Java or similar object-oriented language
• Strong understanding of web-based architecture - web servers, load balancing, caching, databases etc.
• Basic knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Experience developing data driven web applications
• Up-to-date knowledge of latest trends in web application development, including Amazon AWS ecosystem
• Experience building and using RESTful APIs

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi-threading, replication etc. concepts in cloud applications
• Familiarity with large scale business intelligence applications
• Familiarity of JavaScript and other web technologies such as React
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Why Clari?

Because we have a big mission, a winning product and an amazing fan base of passionate customers.

We’re changing the world and having a lot of fun on the way. Clari is a fun and fast-growing Silicon Valley company. Clari is one of Inc. Magazine’s best places to work in the US and was named as a 2019 Top Bay Area Workplace for the 5th consecutive year. In October 2019, we closed $60M in Series D funding and are growing at 200%. Our product is a winner - we have perennially been given the highest overall rating in G2 Crowd’s Top 20 Sales Analytics Software. We’re backed by top tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and Tenaya Capital, and have a superb and supportive board.

Our team is made up of veteran entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, and tried-and-true sales professionals who have done this before and want to do it again, this time only bigger.

What’s left to add? You.