Backend Developer

Note: Salary will be offered based on your overall experience and last drawn salary.

Job Title: Python / Django Backend Developer

Experience: 3+ Years

Location: Gurgaon (Onsite)

Work Mode: 5 Days Working

About the Company

We are hiring for a product-based global furniture and homeware organization with operations in the UK and India. The company builds and maintains in-house digital platforms focused on design-to-delivery, supply-chain, and logistics. The team focuses on building scalable, high-performance internal systems.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services using Python & Django / Django REST Framework
• Build scalable, secure, and optimized database schemas and queries using PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and QA teams for end-to-end feature delivery
• Write clean, reusable, and testable code following best engineering practices
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and CI/CD processes
• Deploy and manage backend services on cloud infrastructure and web servers

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python and Django / Django REST Framework
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
• Experience with REST API design, authentication & authorization
• Working knowledge of AWS services: EC2, ELB, S3, IAM, RDS
• Experience configuring and managing Nginx/Apache
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Familiarity with microservices architecture
• Experience with Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (Pytest, unittest)
• Exposure to e-commerce platforms or high-traffic scalable systems

Relevant Experience

3 to 10 years

Job Description and Key Skills Required:

• Hands-on with any of the programming languages like NodeJS/ExpressJS, Python, Java, Php or any.
• Design and create efficient RESTful API endpoints for both internal and public consumption
• Strong understanding of database technologies such as MySQL, Postgress, Oracle , relational Database.
• Work closely with front end developers to understand required data model
• Comfortable deploying applications on AWS, and have a strong working knowledge of EC2, RDS and S3.
• Must understand overall system design, architecture , improve design and implement new processes.
• Strong understanding of sessions, cookies & local storage is must.
• Experience with in memory databases like redis basic, Memcache
• Independently think of solutions to complex requirements; possess exceptional logical skills.
• Analyse current products in development, including performance, scalability, diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Work with the existing framework and evolve it by building reusable code & libraries
• Search and introduce new software related technologies, processes and tools.
• Bonus: You're fluent with React.
• Bonus: Interested in full-stack development.
• Bonus: Any experience of iOS/Android mobile development.
• Bonus: Experience with CI servers such as Jenkins, Travis or similar types
• Bonus: Experience with web server like Nginx

About the opportunity

What you’ll be doing:

• You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development life-cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations.
• You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
• You will collaborate with product managers, and other key stakeholders within the MMT family to successfully execute projects.
• You will ensure compliance with build/release and configuration management process.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• You possess good understanding of Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Programming Concepts and Responsive Designs.
• You have hands-on experience on Java/ J2EE stack and have done development across multiple browsers/platforms delivering mind-boggling results.
• You thrive in complexity and jump at the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to delivery projects within tight deadlines.
• If you have work experience in a product/start-up company, we’ll like you even more.

Our Purpose and Challenges

With over 47% market-share, MakeMyTrip is India’s first and biggest travel company. In fact, one in every four passengers at an airport is our customer. Driven by the desire to provide an exceptional travel experience for our customers, we have continuously stayed ahead of the curve by developing technology and products to meet the ever-changing demands of the rapidly evolving travel ecosystem.

We are currently solving multiple challenging problems, including -

• How to bring the next 100 million users to our platform?
• How to leverage customer insights to create a truly personalised experience for users?
• How to create a delightful experience for our users, to make travel synonymous to MMT?

Requirements:

• Solid experience in Java or Golang
• 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
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)