Backend Engineer Product

Position: Python Developer

Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

Work Mode: 5 Days WFO

Availability: Immediate joiners only (or notice period completed)

What We're Looking For:

✅ 2+ years of solid Python development experience

✅ Django framework expertise - must have!

✅ FastAPI framework knowledge - essential!

✅ Database skills in MongoDB OR PostgreSQL

✅ Ready to work from office 5 days a week

Location: Bangalore/ Mangalore

Experience required: 2-6 years.

Key skills: Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI

We are seeking a skilled Python Developer with 2–6 years of experience who can contribute as an individual performer while also supporting technical decision-making and mentoring junior developers. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems using Django/Flask, FastAPI, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop robust, scalable, and efficient backend applications using Python (Django/Flask, FastAPI).

• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and easy to integrate.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless and impactful software solutions.

• Participate actively in all phases of the software development life cycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that meets industry best practices.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems for performance and scalability.

• Contribute ideas for continuous improvement in development processes and team culture.

Requirements:

• 2–6 years of hands-on development experience in Python, with proficiency in frameworks like Django/Flask, FastAPI.

• Strong understanding of OOP concepts, design principles, and design patterns.

• Solid experience working with databases.

• Good knowledge of designing and consuming RESTful APIs.

• Comfortable working with version control systems like Git and collaborating in code reviews.

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is an added advantage.

• Familiarity with Docker and containerized application development is a plus.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines is desirable.

• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.

About the Company:

Pace Wisdom Solutions is a deep-tech Product engineering and consulting firm. We have offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, and Singapore. We specialize in designing and developing bespoke software solutions that cater to solving niche business problems.

We engage with our clients at various stages:

• Right from the idea stage to scope out business requirements.

• Design & architect the right solution and define tangible milestones.

• Set up dedicated and on-demand tech teams for agile delivery.

• Take accountability for successful deployments to ensure efficient go-to-market Implementations.

Pace Wisdom has been working with Fortune 500 Enterprises and growth-stage startups/SMEs since 2012. We also work as an extended Tech team and at times we have played the role of a virtual CTO too. We believe in building lasting relationships and providing value-add every time and going beyond business

At Yugen, we're buildingCansoan AI-agent driven fraud Investigation platform for financial organisations. We're currently in the0-1 stageand we're looking for curious andhigh-agencyengineers to join us in this journey to shape a category defining product with global impact.

You should be eager to learn, prefer a fast-paced environment, and are excited about getting agentic systems to work in production. More importantly, no matter how tough the challenge, you're someone who's never afraid toshow up.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable backend systems (APIs, Pipelines and AI applications)
• Work with other team members (Backend, ML, Data Engineers, Product & Design) to ship features quickly
• Learn how to debug & resolve production issues to ensure system uptime
• Participate in architectural & system design discussions
• Explore new technologies and frameworks & come up with suggestions to improve existing systems

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in one or more of: Python, Go, TypeScript or similar
• Strong understanding of software development principles (OOPS, REST APIs, etc. ) and tooling such Git
• Familiarity with databases (SQL or NoSQL)
• A deep sense of curiosity and a knack for experimentation with AI applications
• You're proactive and love getting things done regardless of external factors
• Strong communication skills and a very good eye for detail

Must Have

• Excellent coding skills with strong problem-solving abilities
• Meaningful contributions to open-source projects
• Strong proof of building and deep focus. For example
• Active participation in multiple hackathons, with top-3 finishes or notable wins
• At-least 1 self-driven portfolio project that has been maintained over 4 months. Github repos with frequent commits showing continuous progress would be great.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Python ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Must haves 

• At least 3 years of professional programming experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork
• Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD. 
• Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL 
• Strong knowledge of git 
• Good understanding of data structures 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Good to have 

• Experience with Javascript