
Job Description
Title:- Backend Developer
About us:-
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Responsibilities :-
We are looking for a Python(Django) Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications. Expert in Python, with good knowledge of Python web framework Django. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Skills:- Python, Django, Websockets, storage systems

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Job Title : Python Developer – API Integration & AWS Deployment
Experience : 5+ Years
Location : Bangalore
Work Mode : Onsite
Job Overview :
We are seeking an experienced Python Developer with strong expertise in API development and AWS cloud deployment.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for building scalable RESTful APIs, automating power system simulations using PSS®E (psspy), and deploying automation workflows securely and efficiently on AWS.
Mandatory Skills : Python, FastAPI/Flask, PSS®E (psspy), RESTful API Development, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, EFS, API Gateway), AWS IAM, CloudWatch.
Key Responsibilities :
Python Development & API Integration :
- Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using FastAPI or Flask to interface with PSS®E.
- Automate simulations and workflows using the PSS®E Python API (psspy).
- Implement robust bulk case processing, result extraction, and automated reporting systems.
AWS Cloud Deployment :
- Deploy APIs and automation pipelines using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, EFS, and API Gateway.
- Apply cloud-native best practices to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Manage secure access control using AWS IAM, API keys, and implement monitoring using CloudWatch.
Required Skills :
- 5+ Years of professional experience in Python development.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful API development (FastAPI/Flask).
- Solid experience working with PSS®E and its psspy Python API.
- Strong understanding of AWS services, deployment, and best practices.
- Proficiency in automation, scripting, and report generation.
- Knowledge of cloud security and monitoring tools like IAM and CloudWatch.
Good to Have :
- Experience in power system simulation and electrical engineering concepts.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools for AWS deployments.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with XML-based web services (SOAP, REST).
- Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) for XML data storage.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN).
- Understanding of JSON and other data interchange formats.
- Certifications in XML technologies are a plus.
Job Responsibilities :
- Work closely with product managers and other cross functional teams to help define, scope and deliver world-class products and high quality features addressing key user needs.
- Translate requirements into system architecture and implement code while considering performance issues of dealing with billions of rows of data and serving millions of API requests every hour.
- Ability to take full ownership of the software development lifecycle from requirement to release.
- Writing and maintaining clear technical documentation enabling other engineers to step in and deliver efficiently.
- Embrace design and code reviews to deliver quality code.
- Play a key role in taking Trendlyne to the next level as a world-class engineering team
-Develop and iterate on best practices for the development team, ensuring adherence through code reviews.
- As part of the core team, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies like AI products, online backtesting, data visualization, and machine learning.
- Develop and maintain scalable, robust backend systems using Python and Django framework.
- Proficient understanding of the performance of web and mobile applications.
- Mentor junior developers and foster skill development within the team.
Job Requirements :
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Django.
- Strong understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL and Redis.
- (Optional) : Experience with web front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Who are we :
Trendlyne, is a Series-A products startup in the financial markets space with cutting-edge analytics products aimed at businesses in stock markets and mutual funds.
Our founders are IIT + IIM graduates, with strong tech, analytics, and marketing experience. We have top finance and management experts on the Board of Directors.
What do we do :
We build powerful analytics products in the stock market space that are best in class. Organic growth in B2B and B2C products have already made the company profitable. We deliver 900 million+ APIs every month to B2B customers. Trendlyne analytics deals with 100s of millions rows of data to generate insights, scores, and visualizations which are an industry benchmark.
Job Description:
Candidate must have 2 to 5-years of experience in various phase of development of a python-based application or API development.
Requirements:
Must Have: Strong expertise in PYTHON and its built-in data structures, developing API using flask or fastapi, data wrangling using standard python frameworks like pandas, NumPy etc., integration of various applications (third party or inhouse) with python.
Good to Have: Deployment using Nginx, GUnicorn, IIS, docker and Kubernetes etc. Good understanding of optimization solutions like differential evolution. Hands on experience with python packages like Scipy. Tkinter to make python-based applications.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Understanding/gathering the requirements from stakeholder, formulating the problem, and leveraging AI/ML to solve the business problems.
- Integration of third party or in house application with python solution.
- Working on Deployment and optimization of various engineering problems using Numerical/Constraint optimization frameworks such as Differential Evolution and deploy a web-based API using Flask and Nginx/IIS.
- Unit testing of various python modules developed and testing of the API.
● Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning,
estimation and execution.
● Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
● Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
● Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
● Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
● Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
● Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
● Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
● Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
● Contributes in tech recruitment efforts
Ideal Candidate Profile
● Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. 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
● 8+ years of experience in product driven organization
● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)
Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.
Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.
Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.
Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.
Job Description
- Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
- Mentor junior developers technically.
- Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
- Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.
Eligibility
- 4-8 years of product company experience
- OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
- Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
- Prior experience building REST APIs
- Advanced understanding of AWS stack
- Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.
Perks:
- Healthy catered meals at office
- You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
- Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle
For this role we expect you to have 3+ years of experience in Backend development. You should have strong command
of Python, REST and Flask/Django along with some experience in GIT is nice to have. If you have knowledge about client
side languages like JS, ReactJS and experience in API design and development, it is a huge plus.
You should be knowledgeable about programming languages, operating systems, networks, databases and SQL,
algorithms, architecture, code design and design patterns












