
Backend SDE 3 - Python / Go
at Leading provider of Capital Market solutions in India
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.

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