Django Developer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.As a Backend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
•  Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Designation : Senior Software Developer (Python)

Department : Software

Location : Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Office Time : 11am – 8pm / 12pm – 9pm

Skills and Experience:

• Should have relevant experience of 5-8 years
• Python programming experience 4+ years
• Django (python web framework) experience 2+ years
• Flask/FastAPI (API development) experience 1+ years
• Pgsql database experience 3+ years
• Machine learning (ML)/NLP experience 1+ years
• Good to have knowledge of OCR/Tesseract
• Good to have knowledge of LLM/BERT/GenAI
• Good to have knowledge of Celery for queuing
• Good to have knowledge of ML model/Python App deployment on Azure/AWS

Responsibilities

• Ideate, execute & take ownership of complete project from scratch
• Create and design User-focused focused SAAS with high end experience  
• Optimize existing architecture for performance, scalability & functionality 
• Generate modular & clean codes 
• Deploy & maintain project’s infrastructure with zero downtime 

Skill Sets

• Sharp communication skills 
• Fluent in Problem Solving, Data Structures And Algorithms
• Strong in Java Spring Boot & Python Django languages & frameworks
• Experience with database design & familiar with RDBMS database like Postgresql as well as no SQL databases 
• Good with writing unit test cases & integration test cases 
• Well versed in writing Asynchronous codes or technologies
• Exposed to various AWS technologies like EC2, Cognito, API Gateway,ECS etc.
• Exposed to Pub-sub technologies like SQS,Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc. 
• Familiar with caching tools like Redis, HazleCaste, etc. 
• Exposure to DevOps and Big Data is a plus.

BE / B-Tech degree and 2+ years of work experience, or ME / MS degree and 2+  years of work experience, in Computer Science.

• Strong programming skills in Python/Django
• Experience with Angular, JavaScript frameworks/libraries
• Hands on experience with MySQL, PostGreSQL or other RDBMS
• Experience with Web application security and Secure coding practices
• Strong Analytical thinking and problem solving ability
• Familiarity with software collaboration tools – GIT
• Ability to work with a distributed and diverse team of researchers and developers.
• Excellent English language communication skills, both written and verbal.
• High level of innovation and motivation

This is a remote position.

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power customers, engineers, and operations
• Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to post-deployment.
• Be responsible for full software development life-cycle - design, development, testing, operating in production
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter.
• Serve as technical lead, contributing to and directing the execution of complex projects with other engineers
• Mentor software engineers and set the standard for the next generation of Finly engineers
• Proactively identify and prioritize improvements to the team's processes, codebases and best practices

• 3 to 6 years' experience creating libraries and designing scale-able backend systems
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with software engineering development cycles
• Experience working with backend programming languages (Ruby, Python)
• Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to provide in-depth evaluation of multiple technical directions and determine trade-offs of each
• Strong propensity to make data-driven decisions on technical architecture and project prioritization

• Experience collaborating with experts in product, design, and operations.
• Experience driving initiatives at a broader level across an organization or company
• Strong writing skills
• Proactive approach

Basic Qualifications

Candidates for this role must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests

 Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications

We are looking for a Python Web 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, 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.

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions