Backend Engineer

Title: Senior Software Engineer – Python (Remote: Africa, India, Portugal)

Experience: 9 to 12 Years

INR : 40 LPA - 50 LPA

Location Requirement: Candidates must be based in Africa, India, or Portugal. Applicants outside these regions will not be considered.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software development with expertise in Python
• kubernetes is important
• Strong understanding of async frameworks (e.g., asyncio)
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django for microservices
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/AWS ECS
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaC tools (CDK, Terraform)
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
• Exposure to GenAI tools and LLM APIs (e.g., LangChain)
• CI/CD and DevOps best practices
• Strong communication and mentorship skills

What you'll do:

·        Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks

·        Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

·        Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

·        Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.

·        Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

·        Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

·        Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

·        A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

·        A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

·        Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.

·        Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

·        Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)

·        Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering

·        Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment

·        Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure

Basic Qualifications: 

·        Minimum B.S. / M.S. Computer Science or related discipline from accredited college or University

·        At least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend applications with Node.js, TypeScript

·        At least 2 years of experience building internet facing services

·        At least 2 years of experience with AWS and/or OpenShift

·        Exposure to some of the following concepts: object-oriented programming, software engineering techniques, quality engineering, parallel programming, databases, etc.

·        Experience integrating APIs with front-end and/or mobile-specific frameworks

·        Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs

·        Ability to manage multiple tasks and consistently meet established timelines  

·        Strong collaboration skills

·        Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

·        Experience with Apache Cordova framework

• Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android

·        Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

What you will be doing

● Building and maintaining micro services.

● Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.

● Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Typescript and Javascript based services.

● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.

● Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.

● Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.

● Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.

● Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

Job Description

 It is a global health and fitness platform that aids users to achieve their true physical and mental potential. We started with the vision to help people transform themselves by giving them access to content and programs that work on aspects of mind, body and recovery. Everyone on this team has a unique and mutually exclusive set of skill, building this company like founders. The platform is a combination of technology, science, art and most importantly people and is therefore driven by the knowledge and experience of world’s best coaches, sports science experts, neuroscientists and psychologists. Our insight is that transformation does not need to be about setting unrealistic goals or killing oneself in the gym. We believe in a more structured, incremental and scientific approach to tap into our true potential. We believe this is not just about how the world perceives us; but more about a way of life we believe in.

Responsibilities: -

We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.

We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.

The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

Practical experience in building APIs.

Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system.

Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus. Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins.

Practical experience with Git.

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Remote Workers would also do…

Mintifi is a growing Fintech startup and has a presence in pan India. We are moving towards lightning fast business loans using data-driven decision-making. 

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Integration of data storage solutions 
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization

• You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
• You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
• You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
• You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
• We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
• Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
• Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!

Requirements:

• 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
• Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
• Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless

Perks

• Opportunity to start from scratch
• Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
• Young and dynamic team
• Offsites
• Regular game and hangout sessions every week

How would you leverage your technical expertise to create extraordinary impact for our clients?

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. 

You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

For a team to thrive, it needs active collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an ambitious tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. They leverage their deep technical knowledge to solve more complex business problems and actively assess their team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional pipelines. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar to solve client problems
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software
• You will lead or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills 

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have at least 5 years of experience with two or more development languages such as Java, C#, or Ruby
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Presence in the external tech community: you proactively share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed 
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker