Tech Lead Backend Developer

Specific Knowledge/Skills

1. 4-6 years of experience
2. Proficiency in Python programming.
3. Basic knowledge of front-end development.
4. Basic knowledge of Data manipulation and analysis libraries
5. Code versioning and collaboration. (Git)
6. Knowledge for Libraries for extracting data from websites.
7. Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Familiarity with Cloud (Azure /AWS) technologies

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6–9-month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.

• Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
• Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
• Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Experience building complex, scalable software systems
• Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

About Us:

REConnect Energy’s GRIDConnect platform helps integrate and manage energy generation and consumption for 1000s of renewable energy assets and grid operators. We are currently serving customers across India, Bhutan and the Middle East with expansion planned in US and European markets.

We are headquartered in Central Bangalore with a team of 150+ and growing. You will join the Bangalore based Engineering team as a senior member and work at the intersection of Energy, Weather & Climate Sciences and AI. 

Responsibilities:

● Engineering - Take complete ownership of engineering stacks. Define and maintain software systems architecture for high availability 24x7 systems.

● Leadership - Lead a team of engineers and analysts managing engineering development as well as round the clock service delivery. Provide mentorship and technical guidance to team members and contribute towards their professional growth. Manage weekly and monthly reviews with team members and senior management.

● Product Development - Contribute towards new product development through engineering solutions to product requirements. Interact with cross-functional teams to bring forward a technology perspective.

● Operations - Manage delivery of critical services to power utilities with expectations of zero downtime. Take ownership for uninterrupted product uptime. 

Requirements:

● Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent

● Proficient in python programming along with Frameworks like Django/Fast Api/Flask and Java frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, SpringBoot, etc

● Debug and resolve technical issues that arise during the development or after deployment at various stages.

● Experience in databases including MySQL and NoSQL

● Experience in designing, developing and maintaining high availability systems.

● Experience in MVC pattern, Tomcat, Git, and Jira.

● Experience working with AWS cloud platform.

● 4-5 years of experience building highly available systems

● 2-3 years experience leading a team of engineers and analysts

● Strong analytical and data driven approach to problem solving

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

1. At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
2. Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
3. Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
4. Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
5. Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
6. Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
7. Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
8. Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
9. Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
10. Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
12. Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
13. Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
14. Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

What you need to have:

• No day is the same - you will create technical designs that support varying client requirements
• You'll design and develop full-stack web applications using the latest web technologies, primarily Python and Django
• Write code/unit tests and be part of the test-driven development environment
• Leverage your skills in industry-standard tools to deliver weekly code releases
• You'll work in a no silos environment, frequently collaborating with global teams and roles across the organization

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience developing great web applications
• You can build products from scratch
• You have expertise in the Django backend framework
• You are fluent in the Python language
• You have dabbled in any one of these front-end frameworks - Angular, React, Vue
• You understand when to use NoSQL vs. relational database
• you understand reporting/dashboards framework
• You are comfortable working up and down the stack
• You are able to convert ideas into designs and build them out
• Benefit if you have worked with payment gateways such as visa, Mastercard, etc.