Backend Engineer

🚀 Hiring: Python Developer

⭐ Experience: 2+ Years

📍 Location: Mumbai (Andheri East )

⭐ Work Mode:- 5 Days Work From Office

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

(Only immediate joiners & candidates serving notice period)

Looking for a skilled Python Developer with experience in Django / FastAPI and MongoDB / PostgreSQL.

⭐ Must-Have Skills:-

✅ 2+ years of professional experience as a Python Developer

✅Proficient in Django or FastAPI

✅Hands-on with MongoDB or PostgreSQL

✅Strong understanding of REST APIs & Git

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Python Developer with a strong background in fintech to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have at least 7+ years of professional experience in Python development, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions in the fintech industry.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using Django and Django Rest Framework.

Integrate AI/ML models into existing applications to enhance functionality and provide data-driven insights.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to define and implement new features and functionalities.

Manage deployment processes, ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of applications.

Implement and maintain payment gateway solutions to facilitate secure transactions.

Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior members of the development team.

Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and evaluate their potential impact on our products and services.

Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for all development processes and integrations.

Requirements:

Proficiency in Python and Django/Django Rest Framework.

Experience with REST API development and integration.

Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and practical experience integrating AI/ML models.

Hands-on experience with deployment tools and processes.

Familiarity with payment gateway integration and management.

Strong understanding of database systems (SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Experience with version control systems (Git).

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Work Location: In person

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 2–3 years of professional experience in Python development.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Experience with frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, and web integration.
• Familiarity with SQL and database management systems.
• Experience with Git or other version control tools.
• Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Backend - Software Development Engineer III

Experience - 7+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
• Strong experience with Express.Js framework
• Working experience with Python web app development or python scripting
• Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (AWS, Azure) authentication, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or any similar technologies.
• Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure

Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

·What You will do

● Create beautiful software experiences for our clients using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Work on world-class software products using the latest cutting edge technologies and platforms.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Work in collaborative, fast-paced and value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 4+ years.

● Hands-on development experience in backend, Java, SprintBoot, Hibernate, SQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Microservices etc...

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

● Experience in working with cross-border, distributed teams is a must.

Nice to have Qualifications

● Product and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OO skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with large-scale enterprise systems

This is a remote position.

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power customers, engineers, and operations
• Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to post-deployment.
• Be responsible for full software development life-cycle - design, development, testing, operating in production
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter.
• Serve as technical lead, contributing to and directing the execution of complex projects with other engineers
• Mentor software engineers and set the standard for the next generation of Finly engineers
• Proactively identify and prioritize improvements to the team's processes, codebases and best practices

• 3 to 6 years' experience creating libraries and designing scale-able backend systems
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with software engineering development cycles
• Experience working with backend programming languages (Ruby, Python)
• Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to provide in-depth evaluation of multiple technical directions and determine trade-offs of each
• Strong propensity to make data-driven decisions on technical architecture and project prioritization

• Experience collaborating with experts in product, design, and operations.
• Experience driving initiatives at a broader level across an organization or company
• Strong writing skills
• Proactive approach