Lead Backend Engineer

• Strong understanding of Core Python, data structures, OOPs, exception handling, and logical problem-solving.
• Experience in at least one Python framework (FastAPI preferred, Flask/Django acceptable).
• Good knowledge of REST API development and API authentication (JWT/OAuth).
• Experience with SQL databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) & NoSQL databases (MongoDB/Firestore).
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, and code reviews.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization and writing clean, efficient code.
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality Python applications using FastAPI (or Flask/Django).
• Design and implement RESTful APIs with strong understanding of request/response cycles, data validation, and authentication.
• Work with SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Firestore) databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience with Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataflow, Notebooks) will be a strong plus.
• Work with cloud environments (GCP/AWS) for deployments, storage, logging, etc.
• Use version control tools such as Git/BitBucket for collaborative development.
• Support and build data pipelines using Dataflow/Beam and BigQuery if required.
• Experience with GCP services like BigQuery, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Cloud Functions, Notebooks etc
• Good to have Exposure to microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, or message queues (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
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About Role

We are looking for a hands-on Python Engineer with strong experience in backend development, AI-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across Python services, AI/ML pipelines, and cloud-native environments, and capable of building production-grade, scalable systems.

This role offers high ownership, exposure to real-world AI systems, and long-term growth, making it ideal for engineers who want to build meaningful products rather than just features

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python
• Build APIs and services using FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
• Integrate AI/ML models into production systems (model inference, automation)
• Build and maintain AI pipelines for data processing and inference
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Follow best practices for security, monitoring, and logging

Required Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of backend frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Django
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML systems into applications
• Solid experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM)
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD workflows
• Understanding of scalable system design principles
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a product-driven environment

Perks and Benefits

• Work in Nikhil Kamath funded startup
• ₹3 – ₹4.6 LPA with ESOPs linked to performance and tenure
• Opportunity to build long-term wealth through ESOP participation
• Work on production-scale AI systems used in real-world applications
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures
• Work with a team that values clean engineering, experimentation, and execution
• Exposure to modern backend frameworks, AI pipelines, and DevOps practices
• High autonomy, fast decision-making, and real ownership of features and systems

Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance

optimization and reliability.

 Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure

uninterrupted service.

 Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality

and consistency across the platform.

 Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate

relevant innovations into our platform.

 Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.

 Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development

efforts for new projects and features.

 Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and

improvement within the development team.

 Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime

and reliability of the ad-serving platform.

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team. 
• Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
• Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript

• Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

Cloudera Data Warehouse Hive team looking for a passionate senior developer to join our growing engineering team. This group is targeting the biggest enterprises wanting to utilize Cloudera’s services in a private and public cloud environment. Our product is built on open source technologies like Hive, Impala, Hadoop, Kudu, Spark and so many more providing unlimited learning opportunities. 

A Day in the Life

Over the past 10+ years, Cloudera has experienced tremendous growth making us the leading contributor to Big Data platforms and ecosystems and a leading provider for enterprise solutions based on Apache Hadoop. You will work with some of the best engineers in the industry who are tackling challenges that will continue to shape the Big Data revolution.  We foster an engaging, supportive, and productive work environment where you can do your best work. The team culture values engineering excellence, technical depth, grassroots innovation, teamwork, and collaboration.

You will manage product development for our CDP components, develop engineering tools and scalable services to enable efficient development, testing, and release operations.  You will be immersed in many exciting, cutting-edge technologies and projects, including collaboration with developers, testers, product, field engineers, and our external partners, both software and hardware vendors.

Opportunity:

Cloudera is a leader in the fast-growing big data platforms market. This is a rare chance to make a name for yourself in the industry and in the Open Source world. The candidate will responsible for Apache Hive and CDW projects. We are looking for a candidate who would like to work on these projects upstream and downstream. If you are curious about the project and code quality you can check the project and the code at the following link. You can start the development before you join. This is one of the beauties of the OSS world. 

https://hive.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Hive

Responsibilities:

• Build robust and scalable data infrastructure software

• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects 

• Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and code reviews

• The candidate would write Java code and/or build several services in the Cloudera Data Warehouse. 

• Worked with a team of engineers who reviewed each other's code/designs and held each other to an extremely high bar for the quality of code/designs

• The candidate has to understand the basics of Kubernetes.

• Build out the production and test infrastructure. 

• Develop automation frameworks to reproduce issues and prevent regressions.

• Work closely with other developers providing services to our system.

• Help to analyze and to understand how customers use the product and improve it where necessary.  

Qualifications:

• Deep familiarity with Java programming language.

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems. 

• Knowledge of database concepts, RDBMS internals.

• Knowledge of the Hadoop stack, containers, or Kubernetes is a strong plus.  

• Has experience working in a distributed team. 

• Has 3+ years of experience in software development.

• Have the passion and experience for building responsive, elegant and engaging experiences with future friendly web technologies.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code with proper documentation. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications Implementation of security and data protection Integration of data storage solutions.
• Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards

We are looking for a highly capable Node.js developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.Js based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Skills

• At least one year of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.