Backend Developer | Noida

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.

Must have exp in Django. [ Mandatory]

• The ability to problem-solve and critically think.
• High level of knowledge of Python and the Django framework.
• Familiarity with event driven programming as well as the MVC.
• Good understanding of SQL databases.
• Good understanding of REST APIs.

Position: Software Development Engineer - 2

Location: Bangalore/Remote

Role Overview

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer - 2 with 4-6 years of experience who is passionate about writing clean, scalable code and enjoys solving complex backend challenges. As part of the engineering team, you’ll work on designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, primarily in Python, with exposure to other backend technologies like Node.js and Go. You'll contribute to our microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud-native solutions, ensuring security and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and maintain scalable and efficient backend code in Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement APIs and microservices.
• Ensure code quality by writing and reviewing test cases, and conducting code reviews.
• Handle bug fixing and troubleshooting for backend systems as needed.
• Build and optimize backend systems to positively impact business outcomes.
• Design and implement cloud-native solutions with a focus on performance and security.
• Monitor system health and continuously improve performance and reliability.
• Contribute to process and code improvements, focusing on best practices.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• 4-6 years of experience working with Python (preferably FastAPI or other frameworks).
• Strong understanding of OOP principles and best coding practices.
• Experience in designing and releasing production APIs.
• Proficiency in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Experience in cloud-native application development (SaaS).
• Knowledge of cloud services such as GCS, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong focus on security in design and coding practices.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL DBs.
• Exposure to working in a cloud environment and familiarity with infrastructure management.
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with global teams.

About Us 

Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70%, and build real-time visibility of their security posture. 

Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.

Why should this job excite you?

• Flat-hierarchy, performance-driven culture 
• Rapid growth and learning opportunities
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage 
• A high-performing action-oriented team 
• Competitive package, benefits and employee-friendly work culture

Note: Due to a high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your understanding.

• Hands-on experience in development of rest services using python
• Good knowledge Django or Flask framework
• Designing database tables and structures
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience in owning Code Quality and Code Review processes
• Good understanding of application debugging techniques
• Experienced in Agile methodologies
• Strong analytic, problem solving, and programming ability
• Initiative and drive to contribute
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams

Additionally, we seek individuals with the following qualifications:

• Understanding of SEO and accessibility issues and how they relate to development
• Experience with NoSQL using MongoDB/Cassandra is a plus.
• Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like S3, EMR, EC2 is preferred

• Python developer with Django experience
• 6-8 yrs of total experience
• Strong communication is a MUST

Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus