Backend Developer Intern - Python/Django

Role: Senior Software Engineer (SDE III) – AI & Backend

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5-8 Years

Notice: Immediate – 15 Days

Work Mode: Work From Office

Type: Contract to Hire (CTH)

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in backend development and AI systems. You will build scalable platforms, AI-powered agents, and real-time voice applications.

What You’ll Do

● Design and develop scalable backend services using Python

● Build microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems

● Develop AI-powered agents using LLM frameworks and multi-agent systems

● Work on voice systems using STT/TTS and real-time streaming architectures

● Integrate APIs, vector databases, and RAG-based systems

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers

What We’re Looking For

● 5+ years of experience in software development

● Strong proficiency in Python.

● Experience with microservices and distributed systems

● Hands-on experience with LLMs and agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, etc.)

● Familiarity with vector DBs, embeddings, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

● Good communication skills and ownership mindset

Nice to Have

● Experience with voice systems (STT/TTS) and real-time architecture

● Exposure to MCP or similar frameworks

● Experience building AI copilots or multi-modal systems

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

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Core Responsibilities:

• Design and develop real-time, resillient and high availabilty systems
• Architect and Build Microservices
• Iterating and building experiments
• Will be working with Node.js, Go, MySQL and Redis

You are the right fit if you have:

• Strong systems, architecture and database fundamentals
• Build from scratch and be a good decision maker
• The Ownership skills and can own the problems end to end
• The Zeal and willingness to put in extra efforts to build a product which will be used by millions of users, and most importantly
• The ability to find the solution to any problem and get things done

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and Python
Need experience on cloud/Virtualization experience.
Strong working experience in developing application on Linux 
Experience of working with multi-threading, IPC and socket programming is must.
Familiarity with OS concepts like memory management, scheduling etc. is desirable.
Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack is desirable
Knowledge of Linux networking stack including conceptual understanding of IPsec, iptables, conntrack, bridging, policy based routing etc. is desirable
Familiarity with container technology
Aware of Agile Methodologies, CI/CD methods
Experienced with all phases of project in development, testing and deployment and management of enterprise solutions.
Excellent verbal written communication skills.
Self-motivation and the ability to work under aggressive timeline is must.
Strong problem-solving skills and very good time management skills

Your Responsibilities:

• Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product

• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
• Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
• Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
• Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

Skills that you bring Along:

• A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
• Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
• Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
• Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
• Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
• Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
• Good experience with design patterns
• Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
• Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
• Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
• Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
• Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner