Backend Developer (Python/Django)

Shortened version:

• 5+ years experience in Python with strong core concepts (OOP, data structures, exception handling, problem-solving)
• Experience with FastAPI (preferred) or Flask/Django
• Strong REST API development & authentication (JWT/OAuth)
• SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (MongoDB/Firestore) experience
• Basic cloud knowledge (GCP or AWS)
• Git, code reviews, clean coding & performance optimization
• Good communication and teamwork skills

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain scalable backend apps and REST APIs
• Work with databases, third-party integrations, and cloud deployments
• Write clean, testable, optimized code
• Debug, troubleshoot, and improve performance
• Collaborate with team on technical solutions

Good to have:

• GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions)
• Microservices, Redis/Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Docker, CI/CD
• Basic Pandas/Numpy for data handling

Perks & Benefits

• 5 Days Working
• Family Health Insurance
• Relaxation Area
• Affordable Lunch
• Free Snacks & Drinks
• Open Work Culture
• Competitive Salary & Benefits
• Festival Celebrations
• International Exposure Opportunities
• 20 Paid Leaves per Year
• Marriage Leave & Parental Leave Policy

Responsibilities :

●     Designing and developing robust and scalable server-side applications using Python, Flask, Django, or other relevant frameworks and technologies.

●     Collaborating with other developers, data scientists, and data engineers to design and implement RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.

●     Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and reviewing the code of other team members to ensure consistency and adherence to best practices.

●     Participating in code reviews, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure the quality and reliability of applications.

●     Optimising applications for performance, scalability, and security, and monitoring the production environment to ensure uptime and availability.

●     Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, and evaluating and recommending new tools and frameworks as needed.

●     Mentoring and coaching junior developers to ensure they grow and develop their skills and knowledge in line with the needs of the team and the organisation.

●     Communicating and collaborating effectively with other stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and other development teams, to ensure projects are delivered on time and to specification.

You are a perfect match, if you have these qualification :

●     Strong experience in Python and server-side development frameworks such as Flask or Django.

●     Experience in building RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.

●     Experience in using database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

●     Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

●     Knowledge of software development best practices such as Agile methodologies, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

●     Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively with other stakeholders in a fast-paced environment

Job Description

 Responsibilities

• Develop Python Based API’s using FastAPI and Flask frameworks.
• Implementation of workflow using Apache airflow or similar tools.
• Follow and enforce organization defined SDLC within the offshore team.
•  Writing and modifying Docker files for the back end and Front-End Components.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines for Automation and Code quality checks.
• Writing complex ORM mappings using SQLAlchemy.
• Unit testing using pytest, unittest etc.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in Python and python-based technologies and frameworks including Flask, Fastapi, SQLAlchemy.
• Experience with AWS services like ECS, S3, ECR, Secrets manager, RDS, ELB, API Gateway, Cloudwatch logs, SNS, SQS, SES, Elastic Cache.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, comfortable working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases, writing raw SQL queries.
• Experience of using ORM frameworks like SQLAlchemy.
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs.
• Strong understanding of OAuth protocol.
• Experience working with docker and dockerfile.
• Understanding of microservices pattern and architecture.
• Experience with Git, GitFlow, code review process.
• Must enjoy problem solving, have excellent communication skills and be a good team player.

Good To Have:

• Develop Front End Components using VueJS and ReactJS.
• Familiarity with pipeline deployment process, Terraform scripts.
• Familiarity with Sumologic.
• Familiarity with Data warehouse tools like Snowflake.

Designation : Senior Software Developer (Python)

Department : Software

Location : Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Office Time : 11am – 8pm / 12pm – 9pm

Skills and Experience:

• Should have relevant experience of 5-8 years
• Python programming experience 4+ years
• Django (python web framework) experience 2+ years
• Flask/FastAPI (API development) experience 1+ years
• Pgsql database experience 3+ years
• Machine learning (ML)/NLP experience 1+ years
• Good to have knowledge of OCR/Tesseract
• Good to have knowledge of LLM/BERT/GenAI
• Good to have knowledge of Celery for queuing
• Good to have knowledge of ML model/Python App deployment on Azure/AWS

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection strategies like circuit breaker, rate limiting.
• Integration of data storage solutions like OLTP(RDS, Postgres), OLAP(Redshift) and Cache(redis, memcache) servers with applications.
• End to end responsibility from development to production.
• Ability to work in odd hours in-case of emergencies.
• Well aware of server-less, containers and microservices technologies(like Lambda, Fargate, ECS, EKS).

• Experience 1.5+ yrs in the Software Industry.
• Mastery in Python with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask) with amazing debugging skills.
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) and caching libraries
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Jquery, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Able to create extendible database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or SVN
• Make sure to mention other frameworks, libraries, or any other technology related to your development stack

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a backend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective. You will own the back end development of features of the Mentor To Go platform from conceptualisation through design and testing, working closely with other developers, the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline  
• 3+ years experience working in Unix/Linux environments building web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in developing and deploying cloud based Python/Postgresql applications preferably using frameworks such as Django
• Experience with design and development of moderately complex software projects
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements 

• 5+ years of overall relevant work experience
• Experience building apps using React/React-Native
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.