
Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Python Backend Developer with proven expertise in FastAPI to join our team as a full-time contractor for 12 months. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in backend development, a strong understanding of API design, and the ability to deliver scalable, secure solutions. Knowledge of front-end technologies is an added advantage. Immediate joiners are preferred. This role requires full-time commitment—please apply only if you are not engaged in other projects.
Job Type:
Full-Time Contractor (12 months)
Location:
Remote
Experience:
3+ years in backend development
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Python and FastAPI.
- Implement and manage Prisma ORM for database operations.
- Build scalable APIs and integrate with SQL databases and third-party services.
- Deploy and manage backend services using Azure Function Apps and Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to deliver high-quality web applications.
- Ensure application performance, security, and reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.
Required Skills:
- Expertise in Python backend development with strong experience in FastAPI.
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Proficiency in SQL databases and ORM tools (preferably Prisma)
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud and Azure Function Apps.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
- Knowledge of cloud architecture best practices.
Added Advantage:
- Front-end development knowledge (React, Angular, or similar frameworks).
- Exposure to AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience with NoSQL databases.
Eligibility:
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Available for full-time engagement.
- Please excuse if you are currently engaged in other projects—we require dedicated availability.

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Requirements
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
- 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Proven track record of Team Leading/Mentoring a team successfully.
- Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture both frontend and backend.
- Java, Spring framework, hibernate
- MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
- Exceptional design and architectural skills
- Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop new user-facing features.
- Work alongside the product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.
- Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
- Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive.
- Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.
- Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.
- Team mentorship and leadership.
We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. 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 SDE-2, 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
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
- Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
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We are looking forward to hire a committed Java Developer with experience in building highperforming, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
You are required to:
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
Write well designed, testable & efficient code.
Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
Prepare and produce releases of software components.
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL , NGINX Plus. • Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5. • Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io(websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache
Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA.
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Technical Skills required Our Current Stack What Makes you Eligible? You are where our search ends, if you hold:
- B.Tech/ M.Tech or corresponding degree
- Experience in the same role of almost 1-6 years
- Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.
- Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).
- Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.
- Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5, CSS.
- Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.
- Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus) Fair spoken and written English
- Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!
- Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.
Why us? We are an amalgamation of enthusiastic and genius people working on a remarkable concept, making headway in this industry. It would not only provide you a scope for professional and personal growth but would also provide you a lot of avenues to experiment with and expertise in your skills.
Responsibilities:
Develop new back-end features in one Python/Java/Go
Collaborate with key stakeholders across different stages of the SDLC
Deliver high quality code and lead validation of the developed features
Skills and Qualifications:
5+ years of working experience in backend software development
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design
Strong analytical and debugging skills
Proficiency in one of Python/Java/Go
Hands on experience on big-data technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Cassandra etc
Familiarity with agile practices
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Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Pune
About the Role
The successful backend engineer will work closely and collaboratively with cross functional teams during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
The incumbent should be competent to provide quick solutions to problems and taking a product or a product’s component through the entire life cycle, optimize the space / time complexity and improve on usability and reliability.
What you’ll be doing:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from top notch colleges
- 4 + years of software development engineering.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles (including MVC).
- Good hands on in AWS scalable environment.
- Experience with different RDBMS and No SQL databases like MySQL, mongo, etc.
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services required.
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
- Proficiency in one language that emphasizes class abstractions (for e.g. Java) and have coded in it for at least 4 years.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and work with clients with great efficiency.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
- Open minded, Team builder, Good communicator and ability to lead and inspire teams.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Experience in dealing with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
What are we looking for?
- 4 to 10 years of hands on design / development experience.
- Tech / M.Tech Computer Science or equivalent field from a premier institutes.
- Proficient in Java OR C/C++, data structures, algorithms and OO design / design patterns.
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Technical depth in OS, computer architecture and OS internals.
- Ability to write scalable and maintainable code.
- Self-starter and goal-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to work cooperatively within a strong diverse technical community to expedite development tasks.
- Experience in Machine Learning is a plus
PS: Code review and team leading expereince is a pluys for Tech Lead role
What we offer
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits, in a diverse working environment with inspiring and hardworking colleagues
- A positive, get-things-done workplace.
- An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
- Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale.
- A flexible working environment where you can drive your outcomes.
About us
At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com
Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities.
Role Description :
- Good Understanding of Java 8 with proven hands-on skills
- Experience in Spring Framework - Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring REST
- Experience in Spring Reactive
- Experience in Git, Gradle / Maven
- Practitioner of clean code and SOLID principles
- Able to test drive features
- Can debug code at ease and ensure quality code is produced
- Knowledge of design patterns
- Comfortable with agile practices, user stories and task breakdown
- Understands REST principles and Micro services
- Experienced with technologies such as
- Required Java, Spring Boot
- Good to have Maven, GIT, Swagger, PCF, Rabbit MQ
- Good API skills technology such as Rest Webservice
- Good foundation in data structures, algorithms and OO Design with rock solid programming skills
- Experienced on creating unit test using JUnit, Mockito or PowerMock
- Experienced on mark up language such as JSON and YML
- Experienced on using Quality and Security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and WebInspect
- Experienced on agile methodology
You will get to own and build world-class, stable, secure and scalable solutions
Ownership, trust and flexibility comes with the job and you are expected to consistently raise the bar in terms of technical proficiency and quality of code.
You will get to work with a highly experienced team in a very informal, yet results-oriented environment
You should think consumer-first and have the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
You will actively participate in defining stable and scalable engineering processes to meet the demands of a fast growing team.
3+ years hands-on application development experience in Python, Django, Flask & NodeJS
Highly proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases and Redis.
Should have a strong hands-on working knowledge on AWS services like EC2, S3, Route53, SES, SQS, SNS etc.
Should have successfully built and deployed complex and resource efficient backend APIs that work flawlessly at scale
Should be willing to take on responsibility and ownership and should be highly motivated and fun to work with :)
Experience in working at fast-paced startups is a big plus!
If you have the knowledge, experience and hunger to make a positive impact, we’d love to meet you.
Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include:
Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase.
Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement.
Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications.
Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google.
You Should Have:
Minimum 3 years of experience with Java.
Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development.
Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems.
Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Good To Have:
Experience with BI and data reporting.
Experience with Elastic search.
Understanding of data warehousing.
Experience in Node.js.
Requirements:
- Academic degree (BE / MCA) with 3-10 years of experience in back-end Development.
- Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, Analyzing, Designing, Development and Unit testing
- Scala technologies, AKKA, REST Webservices, SOAP, Jackson JSON API, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
- Hands-on experience with Play framework
- Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
- Experience working with Apache Tomcat server or TomEE
- Experience working with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), writing custom queries, procedures, and designing schemas.
- Good to have front end experience (JavaScript, Angular JS/ React JS)











