
About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

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Location: Chennai & Pune
Work Model: Hybrid
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Python
- Build and optimize RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI
- Work on data manipulation, processing, and transformation using Python libraries
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-quality solutions
- Develop efficient, reusable, and reliable code with strong attention to performance
- Implement containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Ensure application security, data protection, and compliance best practices
- Manage code versioning using Git and follow CI/CD best practices
- Contribute to cloud-based deployments and infrastructure
- Explore and implement solutions using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
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- 6+ years of hands-on experience in Python development
- Strong understanding of Python fundamentals and problem-solving skills
- Experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy)
- Expertise in building REST APIs using Flask or FastAPI
- Solid understanding of ORM frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of application security principles
- Proficiency in Git and version control practices
- Exposure to Generative AI concepts and working with LLMs
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Location: Remote
Interview: Virtual Interview
Experience Required: 3+ Years
Backend / API Development (About the Role)
- Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
- Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
- Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
- Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
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- Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
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Your Key Responsibilities:
1. Build out of the Ventura cloud-based backend platform from scratch
2. Ownership and monitoring of our D2C backend
3. Robust documentation skills and desire to share information with others
4. Desire and ability to prototype ideas quickly, and be willing to experiment and learn
Basic Requirements:
· Very strong python, lambda, sql, general aws
· Clean coding skills around Python or Go and SQL
· Demonstratable experience around writing testable code, working with git, doing peer-level code review, daily standups, and generally championing software excellence
· What you get:
1. Chance to build out a next-gen fintech product from ground 0
2. Opportunity to influence the design of the product
3. Flexible and work anywhere environment running out of Slack
Flat org structure
● Designing, code reviews, POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies building,
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● Architect & Design, code high performance and scalable solutions that meet the needs of millions of customers.
● Implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data.
● Working on the REST framework
● Working on session-based and token-based authentication, Working on Celery
● Handling the payment gateway
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● Writing scalable code using Python programming language.
● Developing back-end components.
- Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
- Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
- Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
- Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
- Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
- Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
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- Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
- Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
- Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
- Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.
Requirements
- Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
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- Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
- Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
- Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
- Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
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- Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
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- Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Key Skills
- In depth knowledge of Node.js
- Knowledge of integration with front-end JavaScript libraries and frameworks like react js
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- Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB
- Working experience of Git preferably bitbucket.
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- Working knowledge of agile methodologies and techniques
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- Experience in designing multithreaded/concurrent/distributed systems.
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- Experience in working on scalable non-blocking server side frameworks like Spring stack(2+ years)
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Optional:
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You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.
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