
*Job description:*
*Company:* Innovative Fintech Start-up
*Location:* On-site in Gurgaon, India
*Job Type:* Full-Time
*Pay:* ₹100,000.00 - ₹150,000.00 per month
*Experience Level:* Senior (7+ years required)
*About Us*
We are a dynamic Fintech company revolutionizing the financial services landscape through cutting-edge technology. We're building innovative solutions to empower users in trading, market analysis, and financial compliance. As we expand, we're seeking a visionary Senior Developer to pioneer and lead our brand-new tech team from the ground up. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our technology stack and drive mission-critical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
*Role Overview*
As the Senior Developer and founding Tech Team Lead, you will architect, develop, and scale our core systems while assembling and mentoring a high-performing team. You'll work on generative AI-driven applications, integrate with financial APIs, and ensure robust, secure platforms for trading and market data. This role demands hands-on coding expertise combined with strategic leadership to deliver under tight deadlines and high-stakes conditions.
*Key Responsibilities*
Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend systems using Python as the primary language.
Lead the creation of a new tech team: recruit, mentor, and guide junior developers to foster a collaborative, innovative culture.
Integrate generative AI technologies (e.g., Claude from Anthropic, OpenAI models) to enhance features like intelligent coding assistants, predictive analytics, and automated workflows.
Solve complex problems in real-time, optimizing for performance in mission-critical financial systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align tech strategies with business goals, including relocation planning to Dubai.
Ensure code quality, security, and compliance in all developments.
Thrive in a high-pressure environment, managing priorities independently while driving projects to completion.
*Required Qualifications:*
7+ years of software development experience; 5+ years in Python.
Proven hands-on experience with OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude) APIs in production systems.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations.
Experience leading projects, mentoring developers, or building teams.
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience with financial markets, trading systems, or market data platforms.
Familiarity with Meta Trader integrations.
Cloud experience, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Knowledge of fintech compliance and trade reporting standards.
*What We Offer:*
Competitive salary and benefits package.
Opportunity to build and lead a team in a high-growth Fintech space.
A collaborative, innovative work culture with room for professional growth.
*Job Types:* Full-time, Permanent
*Work Location:* In person

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Position - Backend developer
Job type - Freelance or on contract
Location - Remote
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Plan,create and test REST APIs for back-end services such as authentication and authorization.
- Deploy and maintain backend systems on the cloud.
- Research and develop solutions for real life business problems.
- Creating and maintaining our apps' essential business logic, providing correct data processing and flawless user experiences.
- Database design, implementation, and management, including schema design, query optimisation and data integrity.
- Participating in code reviews, providing constructive input, and ensuring that code quality standards are met.
- Keep abreast of industry developments and best practices to bring new solutions to our initiatives.
Required skills and experience -
Must have skills : -
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- 3 + years of experience in backend development.
- Proficient in Python,Mongodb,postgres/sql,Django and Flask
- Knowledge on nginx.
- C++/C +Cython for creating python modules
- Knowledge on Redis
- Familiarity with using AI provider apis and prompt engineering
- Experience in working with linux based instances on the cloud.
- Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently or with a group.
Good to have skills :-
- Experience in node.js and Java
- AWS and Google cloud knowledge.
About the role
Webnyay is looking for an experienced Backend Developer to build and scale reliable backend systems for our legal tech platform. You will work on core product architecture, high-performance APIs, and cloud-native services that support AI-driven workflows and large-scale data processing.
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services using Python, Django, and FastAPI
- Build scalable APIs and microservices for product features
- Implement event-driven and asynchronous workflows using Kafka
- Design and maintain backend integrations and data pipelines
- Deploy and manage services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Ensure performance, security, and reliability of backend systems
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver production-ready features
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with Django and FastAPI
- Experience working with Kafka or similar messaging systems
- Working knowledge of GCP and cloud-based deployments
- Solid understanding of backend architecture and API design
- Experience with databases and production systems
- Experience building SaaS or platform-based products
- Exposure to AI-driven or data-intensive applications
Why Webnyay
- Build technology that improves access to justice
- Work on real-world, high-impact legal tech problems
- Collaborative and ownership-driven work culture
- Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling startup
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
Backend/Fullstack Developer
About the Company:
Company is India’s largest and best-established digital wealth management service that helps its customers create wealth for their long-and-short-term goals. Founded in 2012, Company is a pioneer in the digital financial services category and is recognised for creating simple and elegant user experiences in a complex domain. We do this by simplifying complex investing concepts and automating best practices, so our customers can grow their wealth without worry. We achieve this by combining cutting-edge technology, data-driven algorithms, awesome UX and friendly customer support. Our task is ambitious and we like to work hard as well as smart. We want to build a team that relishes challenges and contributes to a new way of thinking and investing in India. We are also invested in the growth of our colleagues and providing a supportive and thriving working environment for everyone. We have been recognised by Great Place To Work® as one of India’s best companies to work for.
Role specific info:
- 4-12 years of experience building good quality production software
- Excellent knowledge of at least one ecosystem based on Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Go/Scala/Clojure
- Good OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
- Familiar with datastores like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Redshift etc.
- Familiarity with react.js/react-native, vue.js etc. • Knowledge of deploying software to AWS, GCP, Azure
- Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)
What would you do here:
- Writing quality code using language best practices.
- Working in a highly collaborative team.
- Building good software using the latest tools and techniques.
- Participating in design reviews, coding modules, code reviews and unit testing.
- Taking ownership of quality and usability of your code.
- Mentoring co-workers.
- Leading efforts in improving technology architecture.
- Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Should have experience in cloud computing
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
- Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- Deep hands-on experience in designing & developing Python based applications
- Hands-on experience building database-backed web applications using Python based frameworks
- Excellent knowledge of Linux and experience developing Python applications that are deployed in Linux environments
- Experience building client-side and server-side API-level integrations in Python
- Experience in containerization and container orchestration systems like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience with NoSQL document stores like the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Development experience with modern JavaScript based front end frameworks, especially Vue.js
- Experience in test automation and TDD
- Experience testing interactive applications with unit testing frameworks for the various technology stacks
- Experience in using and managing Git based version control systems - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Bitbucket etc.
- Experience in using project management tools like Jira, Azure DevOps etc.
- Expertise in Cloud based development and deployment using cloud providers like AWS or Azure
Positions : 2-3
CTC Offering : 40,000 to 55,000/month
Job Location: Remote for 6-12 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra
Required experience:
Minimum 1.5 to 2 years of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python and Django with experience in some form of Machine Learning ML Algorithms
Overview
We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework and DRF
Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :
1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Strong experience in building web applications using Django
4. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
5. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
6. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
7. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar
8. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
9. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
10. Working experience with Docker
11. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
12. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku
KRAs includes :
1. Understanding the scope of work
2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes
3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager
4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team
5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team
6. Developing products and projects using Python
7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.
8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to provide optimal deliveries on time
9. Writing Scalable, maintainable code
10. Building secured REST APIs
11. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery
12. Unit testing prepared modules
13. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team
14. Optimization and performance tuning of code
Bonus but not mandatory
1. Nodejs
2. Redis
3. PHP
4. CI/CD
5. AWS
- B Tech/BE or M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Experience level of 7+ years in building large scale applications.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data.
- Excellent coding skills in Java / Python / Node / Go.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.








