Backend Developer

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Chennai & Pune

Work Model: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Engineer to design, develop, and scale robust backend systems and data-driven applications. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with modern Python frameworks, and exposure to cloud and emerging technologies like Generative AI and LLMs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Python
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI
• Work on data manipulation, processing, and transformation using Python libraries
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-quality solutions
• Develop efficient, reusable, and reliable code with strong attention to performance
• Implement containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Ensure application security, data protection, and compliance best practices
• Manage code versioning using Git and follow CI/CD best practices
• Contribute to cloud-based deployments and infrastructure
• Explore and implement solutions using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of Python fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy)
• Expertise in building REST APIs using Flask or FastAPI
• Solid understanding of ORM frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of application security principles
• Proficiency in Git and version control practices
• Exposure to Generative AI concepts and working with LLMs

What you will do?

Project Management

• Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap. 
• Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
• Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
• Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)

People Management

•  Hire and mentor a team of engineers
•  Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
•  Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team

Technical Work

•  Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
•  Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
•  Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability

What we look for?

Must Haves

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.

Good to Have

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Must Have:

• Thorough experience (Sr. Developer: 3+ years) in core python as well as the Django framework.
• Deep understanding of designing and implementing REST web services/APIs.
• Ability to address authentication and security constraints efficiently.
• Knowledge about Amazon web services and ability to integrate it.
• Ability to write complex python utility scripts.
• Ability to deliver design documentations whenever needed.
• Knowledge of Version Control using SVN/GIT.
• Ability to analyse, debug and resolve basic to complex problems on-demand (independently).

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge with microservice architecture is a BIG plus.
• Knowledge of the docker platform to serve the applications in docker containers and being able to use docker compose will be a plus.
• Leadership and Time Management skills.

About the company
Currently we are hiring for a VC backed startup a fast growing fintech startup based in Bangalore.

It is a super app to digitize India’s 50M+ sales agents where they can get access to relevant products & services, receive training through interactive videos on “how to sell, what to sell and whom to sell”, and earn money. For businesses, we help them save a huge effort in managing and training these agents and help them increase their reach to every nook and corner of the country.

India is a trust deficit market which cannot be accessed through Internet Marketing on Facebook and Google as the majority of the customers need training, push, motivation and a primer on why and how to use a product.

To solve this problem, traditional industries like BFSI, Telecom, Automobile, Real Estate etc. use 50M+ frontline sales executives to drive distribution. We believe that not just for these traditional industries but also for emerging companies in FinTech, EdTech etc these agents will play a pivotal role in accessing trust deficit customers.

They have grown to a  100,000+ agent network across India (growing 50% MoM) & are funded by tier1 VC’s and angels in India.

Summary of Role

As a lead of the consumer products software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of the software applications.

Responsibilities:

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA
• Lead a team of 4-5 developers
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of application
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed
• Lead the design and architecture of software solutions
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration pipelines

Required Skills for this Role:

• JAVA
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• Linux
• REST
• Kafka
• Mysql
• AWS
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Team Leadership experience of at least 3 year

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Java based technologies
• Experience in designing databases and system architecture
• Experience in building products from scratch at well funded start-ups
• Team Lead/Team Manager experience of at least 3 years

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases.
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good Humor

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops