Backend Engineer

Python Developer 

Location: Hyderabad (Apple Office)

Experience: 8+ years (Retail / E-commerce preferred)

Budget- 1.9 lpm + GST

Contract: 1 Year + Extendable

Job Responsibilities / Requirements:

• 8+ years of proven experience, preferably in retail or e-commerce environments.
• Strong expertise in Python development.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience with Container & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Expertise in Infrastructure Automation via Kubernetes YAML configurations.
• Strong skills in Scripting & Automation: Python, Shell Scripts (Bash).
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Experience with Monitoring & Logging: Splunk, Grafana.
• Immediate Joiners Preferred – Urgent Support Required.

About Uni

Uni is on a mission to make credit simple, transparent, and truly rewarding.

We’re building the most meaningful rewards card in India - one that puts

customer benefit at the center of every decision.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, high-performance components from product requirements.
• Write clean, modular, and extensible code with the right data structures and tech stack.
• Contribute to both low-level and high-level design discussions.
• Mentor junior developers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Work in an agile, CI/CD-driven environment.

What You’ll Need

• B.Tech/M.Tech (or equivalent) with 3–5 years of development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java (or similar languages).
• Expertise in OOP, multi-threading, and concurrency.
• Experience working with complex systems and large data volumes.
• Prior experience in scalable web application development is a plus.

Why Uni Cards

• Collaborative, idea-driven work culture.
• Strong engineering team where every opinion counts.
• Flexible hours, learning opportunities, and a merit-based growth path.

Job Description:

• Proficient in software Design and development and familiar with technologies - Java, Java-J2EE, Spring Boot, Ajax, REST API, Micro services etc.
• Working knowledge of any SQL database (MySQL, Oracle etc)
• Working knowledge of No-SQL database (Mongo or Dynamo DB)
• Experience in unit testing using Junit or Mockito
• Experience in designing and architecting systems with high scalability and performance requirements.
• Ability to design infrastructure for performance evaluation and reporting of cloud-based services, namely AWS
• In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch etc..
• Certification on AWS architecture desirable
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
• Good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute in platform requirements/story development.
• Contribute to the design, coding for the requirements/stories and also participate in code and design reviews.
• Develop use cases and do unit test cases and execute them part of continuous integration pipeline.
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Responsibilities

- Software Engineering

- Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal

guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry

- Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design

philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team

- Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services

- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence

- Product Delivery

- Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

- Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution

- Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

Qualifications

- Software Engineering

- Should have at least 4 years of hands on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying

applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications

- Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in

- Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus

- Data modelling experience in Relational Databases

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

- Product Delivery

- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency

risks.

- Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development,

code review, testing and release management

- Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source

code management tools

- Product Maintenance

- Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks

etc

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design.

• Required 4+ years of experience in Java.
• Hands on professional experience using Core Java, Java Restful APIs, Gradle, Spring, Spring Boot and related frameworks.
• Hands on experience creating/consuming web services and data Data queries in SQL
• 2+ years’ experience of working with geographically dispersed teams, that fall across different time zones
• Experience with distributed architecture including web services and technologies
• Developing POCs
• Working knowledge of JIRA or other ALM tools to create a productive, high quality development environment