Backend Developer

Build and maintain scalable web applications using Python + Django

Develop REST APIs using Django REST Framework (DRF) for internal and partner integrations

Work on frontend screens (templates / HTML / CSS / JS) and integrate APIs in the UI

Implement authentication/authorization, validations, and secure coding practices

Work with databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), ORM, migrations, indexing, and query optimization

Deploy and manage apps on Azure (App Service / VM / Storage / Azure SQL as applicable)

Integrate third-party services (payment, SMS/email, partner APIs) when required

Write clean, maintainable code, and support production debugging & performance improvements

Collaborate with product/ops teams to deliver features on time

Must Have Skills

• Python, Django (2–4 years hands-on)
• Django REST Framework (DRF) – building and consuming REST APIs
• Strong understanding of SQL and relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Frontend basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap (enough to handle screens + API integration)
• Experience with Git and standard development workflows
• Comfortable working on deployments and environments on Azure

Good to Have (Preferred)

• Azure exposure: App Service, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
• Background jobs: Celery / Redis or cron-based scheduling
• Basic understanding of security practices: JWT/session auth, permissions, rate limiting
• Experience in fintech / gift cards / loyalty / voucher systems is a plus
• Unit testing (pytest/Django test framework) and basic logging/monitoring

Position of the role

The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.

Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities

The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.

Main objectives of the role

✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.

✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.

✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.

✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.

✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.

✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.

✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.

✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.

Specialisation

✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.

✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.

✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.

✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.

✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.

✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.

✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.

✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.

Key processes in the role

✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.

✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.

✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.

✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.

✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

✔ Data-driven decision-making.

✔ Performance optimization.

Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)

✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).

✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.

✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.

✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.

✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.

Requirements

✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .

✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.

✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.

✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.

✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.

✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.

✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.

Competences

✔ Strategic Thinking - 4

✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4

✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4

✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3

Measures of success

✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.

✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.

✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.

✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.

✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.

✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.

✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.

✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services. 
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
• Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
• Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

What are we looking for:

• 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
• Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
• Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.

• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.

• Should have work experience on the following stacks/libraries: Flask

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip. 
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation. 
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.

Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value: 
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices 
- Build and ship robust features. 
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications. 
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives. 
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk. 
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense. 
- Interest in contributing to open source projects 
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem. 
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel. 
- Stock. 
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted. 
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year

Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate scalable software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Design, develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Develop web applications implementing MVT architecture using Django web application frameworks
• Write effective APIs using industry standard design patterns
• Manage the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Maintaining and upgrading the software following deployment
• Should be able to visualize a proposed system and be able to build it
• Development of applications leveraging Django/Flask based REST APIs

• Work with server-side technologies including databases and MVC/MVT patterns
• Maintain version control system such as GIT
• Should know all the phases of SDLC from requirement gathering to support and maintenance.

Requirements:

• 3-7 years provable experience as a Back End Developer
• Familiarity with common solution stacks 
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures and system design, for scale, performance and security
• Ability to develop back-end website applications
• Knowledge of middleware languages (Python – Flask/Django) and/or JavaScript framework like Node.js
• Familiarity with databases (RDBMS – MySQL/PostgreSQL, optionally NoSQL DBs like MongoDB), web servers (Apache) and UI/UX design
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field

• At least 2-5 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
• Should have built and released APIs in production
• Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Designing thoughtful, extensible data models
• Knowledge of identifying, defining and building micro-services
• Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills - written and spoken