Backend Developer

Position Overview:

We are looking for a talented and self-motivated Back-end Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code that enhances workflow organization and automates various internal processes within the organization. The role involves continuous improvement of our software solutions to save man-hours and ensure overall organizational efficiency. Key tasks include development, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintenance of both new and existing programs.

Key responsibilities:

1)    Software Development: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code/flows that automate internal processes and improve workflow efficiency.

2)    Testing and Maintenance: Perform testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and daily maintenance of created or integrated programs.

3)    Adherence to Standards: Follow preferred development methodologies and adhere to organizational development standards.

4)    Team work: To work closely with other team members to ensure the successful implementation of projects. Maintain clear and concise documentation of code, APIs, and software components to aid in knowledge sharing and future development.

5)    Stay Current: Keep up to date with the latest developments in the Python, RPA ecosystem and engage in best practices of software engineering.

We are looking for a customer-obsessed, analytical Sr. Staff Engineer to lead the development and growth of our Tax Compliance product suite. In this role, you’ll shape innovative digital solutions that simplify and automate tax filing, reconciliation, and compliance workflows for businesses of all sizes. You will join a fast-growing company where you’ll work in a dynamic and competitive market, impacting how businesses meet their statutory obligations with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

As the Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll work closely with product, DevOps, and data teams to architect reliable systems, drive engineering excellence, and ensure high availability across our platform. We’re looking for a technical leader who’s not just an expert in building scalable systems, but also passionate about mentoring engineers and shaping the future of fintech.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
• Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python.
• Experience in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Architect and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform with a DevOps-first mindset.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and compliance experts to deliver features that make tax compliance seamless for our users.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Experience in fintech, tax, or compliance industries.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Background in security, observability, or compliance automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or principal-level role.
• Deep expertise in Python, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
• Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/RabbitMQ-like systems.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Perform validation and verification testing and debud code.
• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Experience working in an agile environment

Required Skills:

• Experience in implementing Object-Oriented Python, Django.
• Good understanding on Django
• Experienced in interfacing with *third party API’s using REST
• Worked with varieties of Relational Databases (RDBMS) like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in Version Control with Git and Bitbucket.
• Experience with JIRA the development progress and tracking deadlines of the project

Laravel developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web applications using the Laravel framework. They must have a strong understanding of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Additionally, they should have experience working with other PHP frameworks and have a good understanding of software design principles.

The responsibilities of a Laravel developer may include:

• Developing, testing, and maintaining web applications using Laravel.
• Working closely with other developers and stakeholders to ensure the application meets requirements.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues with the application.
• Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Developing and maintaining APIs to integrate with other systems.
• Ensuring the application is secure and scalable.
• Participating in code reviews and collaborating with the team to improve code quality.
• Staying up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in web development.

JD:

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

Requirements:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

• Collaborate with the team members to understand the client requirements.

• Advance coding skills in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Scripting language desirable.

• Must have experience in working on frameworks such as Laravel, CodeIgniter.

• Write clean and well-structured codes.

• Produce detailed technical product descriptions.

• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software along with the databases to ensure strong functionality and optimization.

• Contribute to all the software development phases.

• Follow the industry’s best practices for writing clean code.

• Develop and deploy the latest features that facilitate the relevant tools and procedures if required.

• Improve the code-base of our products in a significant manner

• Good academic qualifications
• Experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, DWR, JSP
• Knowledge in Oracle Database concepts
• Sound knowledge in the following is a must
  o Hibernate
  o Spring
  o Oracle & MongoDb
  o HTML & CSS
  o Javascript
  o Jquery
  o Angular 4
  o Node JS
  
  Knowledge of Japer Reports will be an added advantage
• Good communication skills and be a good listener
• Problem solving skills
• Willingness to learn and do all development activities including quality assurance
• Team player