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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)
What you’ll be doing:
- Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
- Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
- Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
- Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
- Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice
Who we are looking for:
- 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
- Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
- Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
- Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
- Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.
What we offer:
- Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
- A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
- An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
- Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

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Location: Andheri East, Mumbai
Work Mode: 5 Days WFO
Availability: Immediate joiners only (or notice period completed)
What We're Looking For:
✅ 2+ years of solid Python development experience
✅ Django framework expertise - must have!
✅ FastAPI framework knowledge - essential!
✅ Database skills in MongoDB OR PostgreSQL
✅ Ready to work from office 5 days a week
Job Description:
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- Completing all tasks set by the supervisor and assisting wherever possible.
- Observing existing strategies, techniques of coding, debugging, testing and adopting to the same
- Ability to maintain composure under pressure
- Ability to work in a team.
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Skills:
- Proficiency in data structures and algorithms
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Experience : 2+ years
Location : Mumbai (WFO only) Initial few months work from home
Notice Period : 0 to 30 days ( Immediate joiners are preferred)
Roles & Responsibilities :
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- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
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Product Development:
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Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
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