Backend Developer

We are looking for a Python Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs. The role involves working with modern Python frameworks, databases (SQL and NoSQL), and building well-tested, production-grade systems.

You will collaborate closely with frontend developers, AI/ML engineers, and system architects to deliver reliable and high-performance backend solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs using FastAPI
• Design efficient data models and queries using MongoDB and SQL databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
• Ensure high performance, security, and scalability of backend systems
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and API tests to ensure code reliability
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues
• Follow clean code practices, documentation, and version control workflows
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI
• Experience with MongoDB (schema design, indexing, aggregation)
• Solid understanding of SQL databases and relational data modelling
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests
• Unit testing (e.g., pytest)
• API testing
• Understanding of REST API design principles
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows

Good to Have

• Experience with async programming in Python (async/await)
• Knowledge of ORMs/ODMs (SQLAlchemy, Tortoise, Motor, etc.)
• Basic understanding of authentication & authorisation (JWT, OAuth)
• Exposure to Docker / containerised environments
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams

What We Value

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Ability to write testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Ownership mindset and willingness to learn
• Teamwork

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on real-world, production systems
• Technically challenging problems and ownership of components
• Collaborative engineering culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer science or related field
• 4-10 years of experience as a software engineer in a product development setting
• Deep experience in Python with demonstrated ability to build modern products
• Experience in designing APIs and integration patterns, implementing secure and sustainable products with a focus on quality and scalability
• Experience in FastAPI, Django, or equivalent
• Experience in data modeling and efficient usage of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or equivalent
• Experience with modern components like async python, pedantic, sqlalchemy, alembic, celery, google products API integration, etc. is a plus
• Understanding of CI/CD practices including code check-in policies, automated unit tests, automated code deployments, etc.
• Experience in other programming languages is a plus, especially Javascript and/or Typescript
• Experience building feature-rich and scalable web apps is a plus
• Ability to grasp new technologies and use them effectively to create industrial-strength software

1. Design patterns- socket communication/ micro services architecture 
2. Caching - REDIS MEMCACHED etc
3. Database - MONGO, SQL etc. min 2yrs experience with these.
4. Features created for large concurrent requests.
5. Node Js, Go lang any asynchronous programming language min 2 yrs exp with any one of them.
6. Message Queues - RABBIT MQ, Kafka etc.

Job Responsibilities:

Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture.

• Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
• Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
• Perform memory, cpu and resource management
• Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
• Propose fixes, and enhancements to existing trading systems
• Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
• Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
• Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings

Required Skills:

•  JavaScript and Python
• Multi-threaded browser and server applications
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• REST

• Building new features using web technologies and frameworks.
• Integrating and improving features that support our large-and-growing user base.
• Ensuring reliability and security of the web application.
• Talking to our mobile app developers and designing how an API method should work.
• Contributing to internal tools that help us manage our users, and content.

• Experience in extensive PHP5 OOP within MVC frameworks like Laravel, MySQL and relational database design.
• Solid grasping HTML and CSS with moderate JavaScript/ AJAX experience.
• The ability to code clean HTML and CSS code by hand if needed.
• Working within CMS platforms - that integrates with MySQL.
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3) is a plus Edit Job Description.
• Self motivated and ready for a challenge.
• Passion to learn and to Grow.
• Team member with excellent communication skills.
• A desire to learn new skills and technologies.
• The ability to seek solutions independently.
• The drive to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience 2- 4 Years having strong logical and analytical skills.

• 5+ years of software development experience in Java 8+ and Microservices.
• Experience in developing micro services. Experience in developing High Cohesion & Loosely Coupled Micro Services.
• Experienced in skills of requirement, analysis, design, develop, Java, springboot, microservices, rest api, AWS, lambda, EC2, Jenkins, design pattern, spring security, splunk, auth, docker, SOLID
• Hands on experience on Microservices Architecture.
• Should have excellent acumen in Data Structures, algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/Analytical skills. Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different type of Design patterns.
• Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by, aggregate functions, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Message Broker like Kafka/Rabbitmq or other. Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming web services. Hands-on experience with spring Cloud/Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks. Should have practical experience with Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control systems like Git/SVN etc.
• Hands on experience on Cloud deployment/development like AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects. Sound understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven development.

• Gender Neutral /Diversified Culture
• 51 Leaves annually
• Insurance covered for family
• Incentives, Bonus
• Permanent WFH Option
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements

Skills

What you need to have:

• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Write clean, well-designed code.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix any issues relating to PHP programs.
• Ensure smooth operations of web processes and infrastructure.