Kickass Backend Developer (Node.js / Php/ Python)

Job description:

Title: Python Developer

Location: Onsite – Mumbai, Maharashtra

Experience: 5-6 years in Python development

Joining: Immediate

About the Role

We are building cutting-edge AI products designed for enterprise-scale applications and arelooking for a Senior Python Developer to join our core engineering team. You will beresponsible for designing and delivering robust, scalable backend systems that power ouradvanced AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python-based backend applications and services.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate machine learning models into productionenvironments.
• Optimize applications for performance, reliability, and security.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.
• Work with cross-functional teams including Data Science, DevOps, and UI/UX to ensureseamless delivery.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years of professional Python development experience.
• Strong expertise in Django / Flask / FastAPI.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Solid understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AI/ML pipeline integration is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Good to Have

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Exposure to message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Knowledge of data engineering tools (Airflow, Spark).
• Familiarity with Neo4j or other graph databases.

Role & Responsibilities

work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;

coach and mentor team members;

cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;

preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;

“see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;

work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and

own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Requirements:

• Should have sound knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JQuery & javascript.
• Should know MVC framework Yii/Yii2
• Knowledge of mobile app APIs, JSON, etc.
• Knowledge of version control systems like GIT is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Troubleshoot and fix any issues relating to PHP programs.

Highlights:

• Working 5 days a week.
• Group Health Insurance for our employees.
• Work with a team of 200+ excellent engineers.
• Extra Compensation for Night Shifts.
• Additional Salary for an extra day spent in the office.
• Lunch buffets for all our employees.
• Yearly and quarterly awards with CASH amount, Dinner coupons, etc
• Team Dinners on Project Completion.
• Festival celebration, month end celebration and much more.

Desired Candidate :

• Experience in Node.JS working with large scale backend applications
• Expertise in any Relational or NoSQL databases and any of caching databases
• Experience in integrating with RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Microservice APIs
• Good problem solving and debugging skill
• Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality,
• Documentation, CI&CD
• Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O
• Experience in Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools
• Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)

What you can achieve :

• Empowering Entrepreneurial Spirit: Whatever your role is, we'll encourage you to reinvent and reinvigorate; achieving the best for CaratLane and you.
• Celebrating Your Contribution: We recognize and reward everyone who approaches their job with true passion, and drives performance.
• The Best of Tanishq and CaratLane: Work with a disruptive, new-age omni-channel brand, while being a part of India's most trustworthy organisation - the Tata Group.

• 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
• Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
• Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
• Must have Linux command line experience.
• Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
• Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
• Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
• Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
• Team player

We are looking for a Node.js 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.

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

• Good academic qualifications
• Experience in developing web applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, DWR, JSP
• Knowledge in Oracle Database concepts
• Sound knowledge in the following is a must
  o Hibernate
  o Spring
  o Oracle & MongoDb
  o HTML & CSS
  o Javascript
  o Jquery
  o Angular 4
  o Node JS
  
  Knowledge of Japer Reports will be an added advantage
• Good communication skills and be a good listener
• Problem solving skills
• Willingness to learn and do all development activities including quality assurance
• Team player