Django Engineer

Job Position: Senior Technical Lead / Architect

Desired Skills: Python, Django, Flask, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services, JavaScript, Identity Security, IGA, OAuth

Experience Range: 6 – 8 Years

Type: Full Time

Location: Pune, India

Job Description:

Tech Prescient is looking for an experienced and proven Technical Lead (Python/Django/Flask/FastAPI, React, and AWS/Azure Cloud) who has worked across the modern full stack to deliver scalable, secure software products and solutions. The ideal candidate should have experience leading from the front — handling customer interactions, mentoring teams, owning technical delivery, and ensuring the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of applications using the Python stack (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Architect and implement secure, scalable, and cloud-native solutions on AWS or Azure.
• Drive technical discussions, architecture reviews, and ensure adherence to design and code quality standards.
• Work closely with customers to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Oversee development teams, manage delivery timelines, and guide sprint execution.
• Design and implement microservices-based architectures and serverless deployments.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services; experience with Django Rest Framework (DRF) is a plus.
• Responsible for infrastructure planning, deployment, and automation on AWS (ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery and continuous improvement.
• Champion best practices in software security, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Provide technical mentorship to developers and lead project communications with clients and internal stakeholders.

Identity & Security Expertise:

• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and best practices.
• Experience in implementing Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions for user lifecycle management, access provisioning, and compliance.
• Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and related identity protocols for securing APIs and services.
• Experience integrating authentication and authorization mechanisms within web and cloud applications.
• Familiarity with Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Exposure to AWS IAM, Cognito, or other cloud-based identity providers.
• Ability to assess and enhance application security posture, ensuring compliance with enterprise identity and security standards.

Skills and Experience:

• 6 – 8 years of hands-on experience in software design, development, and delivery.
• Strong foundation in Python and related frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Experience designing secure, scalable microservices and API architectures.
• Good understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Proven leadership, communication, and customer engagement skills.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is an added advantage.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and passion for learning new technologies.

• Hands-on experience in development of rest services using python
• Good knowledge Django or Flask framework
• Designing database tables and structures
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience in owning Code Quality and Code Review processes
• Good understanding of application debugging techniques
• Experienced in Agile methodologies
• Strong analytic, problem solving, and programming ability
• Initiative and drive to contribute
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams

Additionally, we seek individuals with the following qualifications:

• Understanding of SEO and accessibility issues and how they relate to development
• Experience with NoSQL using MongoDB/Cassandra is a plus.
• Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like S3, EMR, EC2 is preferred

Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code in Python.
• Designing and implementing software features and capabilities.
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and bugs in existing code.
• Collaborating with other developers, stakeholders, and users to define, design, and ship new features.
• Building and maintaining software documentation.
• Ensuring code is maintainable and maintain appropriate versioning practices.
• Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Python development.
• Strong knowledge of Python programming language and related frameworks (such as Django, Flask etc.)
• libraries is important.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, version control systems and experience with system administration.
• Database management and good understanding of software design principles is desired.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Job Description for Senior Python Developer 

Experience: 4 to 7 years

• Must have strong knowledge in Python 2/Python 3
• Must have a strong knowledge of Web development using the Django web framework and API development experience using Django REST API.
• Flask framework or any other framework’s knowledge is great.
• Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Team Handling exposure
• Knowledge of Standard databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Firebase, etc. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Must be good at understanding client requirements.
• Good testing/debugging skills using standard python modules/IDEs
• Deployment experience with standard servers like Apache/AWS etc.
• Experience in testing frameworks known in the industry.
• Having good/basic knowledge of Front end Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is good.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools - GIT

The candidate must have experience in coding part and team handling experience both

Your Responsibilities :

Minimum 3+ Years of hands-on experience in developing Python Applications. 
Excellent knowledge of Python and experience in or in-depth understanding of core Python 
Knowledge in Lists, Tuples, and Dictionaries
Excellent knowledge of Python Constructor- Parameterized and Non-Parameterized
Must have experience in core python concepts about data structure, OOPS concepts, XML parsing, XML to JSON, optimizations

Developers should have developed Web Based applications., back end, SQL
Agile and scrum methodology

Should not be test automation, Application development frame work

Excellent Communication Skill

Good to Have 

Django/ Flask 
Strong Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, DTL(Django Template Language), SASS.
knowledge of SQL