Backend Developer

Position: Lead Python Developer

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem. Position Summary We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python, and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.

Job Responsibility

● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.

● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.

● Work with relational and non-relational

databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.

● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.

● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.

● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.

● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.

● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.

Job Requirements

● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.

● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).

● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)

● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows

● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.

● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).

● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).

● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and Elastic Search.

● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.

● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.

● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.

Job Exposure:

● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources

● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications ● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement

● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution 

• Experience in Node.js Frameworks
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript, Socket IO, ExpressJS & SailsJS
• Experience working with third-party developer tools, including documentation, APIs, and SDKs
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and Its Workarounds
• Database Schema design for Business Processes
• Working Knowledge of JWT based passport Authentication
• Can Write and Refactor Efficient Codes
• Experience in Implementing Data Protection
• Must have demonstrated the ability to deliver high-quality products on time
• Knowledge of GIT, SVN technology

Strong proficiency with one of the Vue.js, Angular JS, React JS JavaScript Techologies
2. Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it , such as Express JS, Strong Loop, etc
3. Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and Promises and its quirks and workarounds
4. Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)
5. Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Styles, Less
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems(Internal or Third party), servers, and environments
9. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
10. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
11. Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
12. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
13. Proficient in code versioning tools, such as Git or TFS

Job Description

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

 Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best

technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.

 Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

 Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

 Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

 Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while

continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

 Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products

spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.

 Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.

 Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and

cross-team.

 Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to

them. 

Skills required

 MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

 3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale

distributed internet systems and products.

 Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript

frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.

 Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

 Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge

technologies around server side development.

 Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github,

Google Developer Groups (GDGs).

 Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

 Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-

energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

 Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.