Backend Developer

Job Title: Python Developer (Full-time)

Location: Gurgaon, Onsite

Working Days: 5 days

Experience Required: 5+ Years

 About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Python-based web frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Starlette. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing and building scalable APIs and services in a high-performance environment. This is a great opportunity to work on backend systems powering critical products at scale.

 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Python
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery
• Write clean, testable, and efficient code
• Troubleshoot and debug production systems

 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development using Python
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Django, Flask, or Starlette/FastAPI
• Proven experience in API development and integration
• Experience building scalable and high-performance systems
• Familiarity with async programming (especially for Starlette/FastAPI)
• Good understanding of database design (SQL/NoSQL)
• Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker is a plus
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Job Role Solution Architect

Experience 15+ years

Notice period Immediate

Location - Bangalore

Note: OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Java and Microservices architecture.

Responsibilities include:

- Design and define end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise applications using Java and Microservices.

- Lead architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and solution blueprints.

- Drive microservices-based application design, including service decomposition, API contracts, and integration patterns.

- Define and govern RESTful API standards and service-to-service communication.

- Work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, and development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.

- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, availability, and security.

- Review code, architecture artifacts, and ensure adherence to best practices.

- Support DevOps, CI/CD strategy, and cloud-native adoption.

- Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies.

Primary Skills :

- 10+ years of proven experience in the industry, with at least 3 years as an Architect or similar role designing and developing enterprise-scale applications.

- Bachelors in engineering / technology (4 year) or master's in computer applications (2 year)

- Must possess at least 6+ years of Software development experience.

- Expert knowledge in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java, one backend framework like Spring Boot / Node JS, one UI framework like React JS / Angular JS and RDBMS or NoSQL database.

- Excellent knowledge of front-end programming languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AngularJS, with the ability to render server-side and client-side content.

- Helps identify newer practices and adoption of existing ones. Ensure that the code quality is maintained via own and/or peer code reviews.

- Can lead the team in delivery of backend and user interface code. Ensure that the DevOps tasks are

executed well.

- Ensure that the software has the correct level of logging & monitoring in Production and LLEs.

- Exceptional problem-solving skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication. Must understand the client’s business requirements and translate them into software requirements. Has a view of the deliverable timeline and escalates when needed.

- Ability to articulate technical designs & develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts etc.

- Experience in implementing OMS products for retail customers will be an added advantage.

- Ability to do estimation for the given requirements.

- Ability to lead technical discussions with clients.

- Must be able to do quick proofs of concepts and demos based on client requirements.

- Provide timely feedback on the performance of team members.

- Conduct interviews & provide feedback to achieve hiring objectives.

- Contributes to organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building.

Secondary Skills :

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.

- Exposure to Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).

- Experience with Kafka / RabbitMQ or other messaging systems.

- Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.

Basic knowledge of:

- Application security (OAuth2, JWT, TLS)

- Logging & monitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
• 5–8 years of backend development experience
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

Preferred Traits

• Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
• Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code

Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework - Django
• Familiarity with backend automated testing tools and frameworks
• Experience with backend/API development
• Architect, develop and maintain backend libraries/codebase, database & server.
• Develop object-oriented software, with mastery of one or more relevant languages (Django).
• Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.
• Understanding the requirement of a client, document the scope and chart out a plan of implementing the scope
• Work with design team to give inputs related to the wire-frames and then the design along with incorporating Client Feedback
• Explore the difference between B2B and B2C projects before implementing the code
• Work in teams of 2-3 on various projects as per the requirement using git as version control
• Having good knowledge of APIs creation and database architecture
• Good Grasp in respective technology (Django)
• Documenting the process and main functions along the developing process
• Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing companies in India.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience required
• Strong hand on Django-Python
• Excellent knowledge of using the Git version control system and deployment via Git.
• You have creative visualization, critical thinking, deductive & pragmatic reasoning and can think out-of-the-box
• Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.
• A self-starter with demonstrated ability to take initiative, who can proactively identify issues/opportunities and recommend action.

About Company

Our client is in the business of delivering cutting-edge software solutions, hardware systems, and IT services. It lends the right technological edge to governments and businesses. This enables them to achieve their organizational objectives efficiently and effectively to scale their businesses to newer heights.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or a related field is preferred.

• Must have at least 5 to 7 years of experience in PostgreSQL.

• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts.

• Knowledge & hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Java, and Spring Framework is a must.

• Additional knowledge of JDBC, Apache TomCat Server & relevant open-source technologies is required.

• Must have experience with Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, etc.

• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database

Connectivity), and RESTful web services.

• Experience in handling external and embedded databases.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Maintaining the Database, creating efficient queries, and understanding and improving the current database structure.

• Develop new modules, patches & Updates/upgrades for an existing application (developed in house by the client)

• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives.

• Maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.

• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.

• Write well-designed, testable code.

• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.

• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review.

As a Senior Software Engineer you have complete ownership of building out the Docexa product along with product people and the rest of the engineering team. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.

Your daily life

• Architecting of the whole platform
• Development of server-side logic
• Building new services and APIs
• Developing core business logic
• Maintenance of current APIs
• Improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we scale

Must-have skills

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• You are familiar with modern technology systems: AWS, load balancers, Kafka queues, caching, etc.
• You write understandable, testable and easy to maintain code
• You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems