Backend Engineer – Python (AI Backend)

Strong Backend Engineering (Golang) Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 3+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience, with at least 2+ years working primarily in Golang on production systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience with Golang, including writing clean, scalable, and maintainable backend services

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have experience designing, developing, and owning RESTful and/or gRPC APIs end-to-end (from design to production)

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have solid experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL/ MongoDB

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have a strong understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and memory management in Go

About Role

We are looking for a hands-on Python Engineer with strong experience in backend development, AI-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across Python services, AI/ML pipelines, and cloud-native environments, and capable of building production-grade, scalable systems.

This role offers high ownership, exposure to real-world AI systems, and long-term growth, making it ideal for engineers who want to build meaningful products rather than just features

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python
• Build APIs and services using FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
• Integrate AI/ML models into production systems (model inference, automation)
• Build and maintain AI pipelines for data processing and inference
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Follow best practices for security, monitoring, and logging

Required Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of backend frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Django
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML systems into applications
• Solid experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM)
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD workflows
• Understanding of scalable system design principles
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a product-driven environment

Perks and Benefits

• Work in Nikhil Kamath funded startup
• ₹3 – ₹4.6 LPA with ESOPs linked to performance and tenure
• Opportunity to build long-term wealth through ESOP participation
• Work on production-scale AI systems used in real-world applications
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures
• Work with a team that values clean engineering, experimentation, and execution
• Exposure to modern backend frameworks, AI pipelines, and DevOps practices
• High autonomy, fast decision-making, and real ownership of features and systems

Solution Oriented Mindset

• Assist project in all technical aspects of tooling and DevOps
• Proactively lead tools new versions release cycle and documentation
• Proactively identify risks related to application /deliverables and propose a mitigation plan
• Provide custom solutions as per customer requirements

Autonomy & Problem Solving Mindset

• Work in complete autonomy to deliver project deliverables, for advanced technical deliverables, with required level of quality
• Must have troubleshooting skills

Agile Mindset

• Contribute to improvement of internal process, tooling, and quality process
• Design, build and collect technical materials as part of project executions in a spirit of reusability for future engagements and maintain knowledge on best practices, tools, and reusable components for CAST analysis

As an employee of our company, you will collaborate with each department to create and deploy disruptive products. Come work at a growing company that offers great benefits with opportunities to move forward and learn alongside accomplished leaders. We're seeking an experienced and outstanding member of staff.

This position is both creative and rigorous by nature you need to think outside the box. We expect the candidate to be proactive and have a "get it done" spirit. To be successful, you will have solid solving problem skills.

Responsibilities

• Design & Develop Odoo Apps
• Translate requirements into clean and efficient code
• Analyze, diagnose and resolve errors relate to the applications.

Must Have

• Bachelor's Degree In Computers/MCA
• Object-oriented programming language
• Basics of Python/HTML/CSS/JS
• Highly creative and autonomous

Nice To Have

• Python/Javascript Knowledge
• Linux, Github
• Contribution in open source projects
• Strong communication skills

What's great in the job?

• Great team of smart people, in a friendly and open culture
• No dumb managers, no stupid tools to use, no rigid working hours
• No waste of time in enterprise processes, real responsibilities and autonomy
• Expand your knowledge of various business industries
• Create content that will help our users on a daily basis
• Real responsibilities and challenges in a fast evolving company

• Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
• quality over quantity.
• Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
• AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
• important to us.
• The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
• We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
• If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework Django
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Strong experience on Linux
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i. e. PostgresSQL)
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
• Experience on RESTful APIs
• Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
• Experience on Automation Builds using Jenkins and other popular frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable

It is India’s only B2B Construction Materials Supply Chain Company. Construction & Infrastructure is  one of the industries, with the most complex problems in Supply Chain and we are fundamentally reengineering the  way construction materials get procured. Our Clients include the biggest names in India & the World– The  LafargeHolcim Group, JSW Group, The Tatas and many others. We are backed by some of the world’s top marquee  funds in our journey to create transparency and standardization to an otherwise opaque industry. 

Your responsibilities: 

• Understand the business context and build high quality code using proven design patterns Develop, test and deploy integrations required to meet business requirements 
• Carry out unit tests and other quality control mechanisms to inform and validate the code and design 
• Utilizing and monitoring cloud infrastructure resources (such as AWS, Azure) efficiently 
• Participate in a highly fluid environment applying agile software development principles 
• Ensure the coding standards are on-par with the best in the industry 

Educational Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science).  

Must have skills: 

• 3+ years of work experience with mobile/web development 
• Experience in working with either of languages: Go, Java, Scala 
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) 
• Strong understanding of Message brokers 
• Must have hands on experience in Restful APIs 
• Must have a strong foundation of Data structures and Algorithms 
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems 
• Ability to deploy features on a daily basis: should be good at time management and prioritization 
• Hands-on experience in CI/CD principles and TDD 
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills 

Good to have skills: 

• Experience in event-driven & asynchronous I/O frameworks 
• Exposure to business process and workflow automation 
• Working experience in process driven and data intensive business applications 
• Experience in working on web infrastructure with React.js and React Native 

Professional traits: 

• Self-motivated, persistent and “Never Give Up” attitude 
• Passion for innovation and adaptability to a lean startup culture 
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, independently and / or as a member of a team 
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made,  asking questions as appropriate