Backend Developer - Python/Java/Performance Tuning

SENIOR PYTHON DEVELOPER

Designation: Senior Python Django Developer 

Position: Senior Python Developer

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to ₹800,000.00 per year

Schedule: Day shift (On-site)

Supplemental Pay: Performance bonus, Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:  JP Nagar, Bangalore: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (Preferred)

Experience: Back-end development: 5 years (Required)

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the startup environment.

This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
• Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
• Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 5 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
• Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unit test, or factory boy.
• Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architecture ( 
• Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
• Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.
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🚀 Hiring: Data Engineer | GCP + Spark + Python + .NET |

| 6–10 Yrs | Gurugram (Hybrid)

We’re looking for a skilled Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience in GCP, Spark-Scala, Python, and .NET.

📍 Location: Suncity, Sector 54, Gurugram (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

💼 Experience: 6–10 Years

⏱️ Notice Period :- Immediate Joiner

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in distributed computing (Spark) and software development.
• 3+ years of experience in Spark-Scala
• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in Python.
• Fluency in working with databases (preferably Postgres).
• Have a sound understanding of object-oriented programming and development principles.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum or Kanban development environment.
• Experience working with version control software (preferably Git).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing, including integration/delta, Load, and Performance

•  You should have deep understanding of NodeJS
•  You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript
•  You should be capable of writing complex queries
•  ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment
• Gateway,
• Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,
• PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
• Very good knowledge on REST API
• Good experience in Agile methodologies
• Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards
• and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability,
• reusability, modularity in mind
• You should have strong logical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
• AWS certification is nice to have
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have
• ES6(Typescript) knowledge
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its
• quirks and workarounds
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems,
• servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one
• system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable
• application
• Competencies and Skills Required
• equires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good
• communications skills
• Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
• Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business
• problems
• Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to
• adapt to continually changing priorities)
• Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and
• collaboration
• Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘statusquo’
• Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement

Lead Software Engineer (Bangalore, Remote option available) 6+ years of experience 

Zepto (www.zeptonow.com)

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 50-65 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large an Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

1. Discussion on past experience and problem discussion based on projects done
2. Low level design
3. High level design

(One of the rounds will test scenario management via case study since it’s a managerial role) 

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Write maintainable/scalable/efficient code.
• Design and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a very large e-commerce portal.
• Work in cross-functional team, collaborating with peers during entire SDLC.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines.

Your Superpowers

• 6+ years of experience in building large scale applications or products.
• A “Bring It On” attitude; bias for action; self-driven, end-to-end ownership; entrepreneurial approach; focus on operational excellence; ability to work with ambiguity.
• Strong in problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
• Very good understanding of one or more of RDBMS/NoSQL/Messaging/ Caching technologies.
• Excellent understanding of and coding skills in following technologies: Java
• B Tech/BE in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed institution.

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TeamExtn is looking for a passionate Senior Scala Engineer. It will be expected from you to build pragmatic solutions on mission-critical initiatives. If you know your stuff, see the beauty in code, have knowledge in depth and breadth, advocate best practices, and love to work with distributed systems, then this is an ideal position for you.

As a core member of our Special Projects team, you will work on various new projects in a startup-like environment. These projects may include such things as building new APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) for new products, integrating new products with core Carvana services, building highly scalable back end processing systems in Scala and integrating with systems backed by Machine Learning. You will use cutting edge functional Scala libraries such as ZIO. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Product, Experience and Software Engineering teams to deliver impact.

Responsibilities:

• Build highly scalable APIs and back end processing systems for new products
• Contribute in the full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists
• Drive scalability and performance within our distributed AI platform
• Full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists

Skills And Experience:

• 4+ years experience with Scala or other functional language
• Experience with Akka and Lightbend stack
• Expert with PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL
• Experience in architecting, developing, deploying and operating large scale distributed systems and actor systems
• Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Solid understanding of computer systems and networks
• Production quality coding standards and patterns

BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience with functional programming in Scala
• Knowledge of ZIO and related ecosystem
• Experience with functional database libraries in Scala (Quill preferred)
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Our Interview Process:
Our interview involves 3 steps.

1. Code Evaluation - In this step we send you a simple assignment that you implement

2. First Technical Round - In this technical round we evaulate you on your skills, concepts and knowledge in Scala.

3. Second Technical Round - If the first round goes well we check how hands you are with Scala and have online problem solving session.

JD:

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

Requirements:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.