


š„ What will you do?
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will
- Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers
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Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements
- Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
- Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
- Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
- Actively participate in code reviews
- Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites
š What are we looking for?Ā
While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture areĀ
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Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.
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You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.
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You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.
- You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.
š¢ Other information you may want to considerĀ
- We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
- Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

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Role & Responsibilities
Take end-to-end ownership of critical backend services ā from architecture and development to deployment and scale.
Design systems for performance, reliability, and observability. Identify bottlenecks and eliminate them proactively.
Collaborate with product and design to deeply understand user pain points and build the right solutions.
Work independently and own complex modules with minimal oversight.
Champion clean, maintainable code and help set a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.
Stay up-to-date with new tools, technologies, and backend trends ā and bring the best ideas into our stack.
Ideal Candidate
2+ years of backend development experience, ideally with Kotlin and Spring Boot (or willingness to ramp up quickly).
Youāve worked in fast-moving teams and thrive when given room to figure things out.
You take initiative and can drive complex modules to completion without needing constant guidance.
Strong with both low-level and high-level design; you know how to build scalable, reliable RESTful APIs.
Proficient with relational databases and aware of common performance pitfalls.
Confident with debugging and optimizing ā memory leaks, latency issues, and other hard-to-find problems donāt scare you.
You write clean, testable code and know how to leave systems better than you found them.
You bring a product mindset ā caring not just about whatās built, but why and how it delivers value to users.


Job Responsibilities :
- Work closely with product managers and other cross functional teams to help define, scope and deliver world-class products and high quality features addressing key user needs.
- Translate requirements into system architecture and implement code while considering performance issues of dealing with billions of rows of data and serving millions of API requests every hour.
- Ability to take full ownership of the software development lifecycle from requirement to release.
- Writing and maintaining clear technical documentation enabling other engineers to step in and deliver efficiently.
- Embrace design and code reviews to deliver quality code.
- Play a key role in taking Trendlyne to the next level as a world-class engineering team
-Develop and iterate on best practices for the development team, ensuring adherence through code reviews.
- As part of the core team, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies like AI products, online backtesting, data visualization, and machine learning.
- Develop and maintain scalable, robust backend systems using Python and Django framework.
- Proficient understanding of the performance of web and mobile applications.
- Mentor junior developers and foster skill development within the team.
Job Requirements :
- 2+ years of experience with Python and Django.
- Strong understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL and Redis.
- (Optional) : Experience with web front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Who are we :
Trendlyne, is a Series-A products startup in the financial markets space with cutting-edge analytics products aimed at businesses in stock markets and mutual funds.
Our founders are IIT + IIM graduates, with strong tech, analytics, and marketing experience. We have top finance and management experts on the Board of Directors.
What do we do :
We build powerful analytics products in the stock market space that are best in class. Organic growth in B2B and B2C products have already made the company profitable. We deliver 900 million+ APIs every month to B2B customers. Trendlyne analytics deals with 100s of millions rows of data to generate insights, scores, and visualizations which are an industry benchmark.


Job description
Job Overview:
The position requires an experienced and ambitious candidate who is passionate about technology and is self-driven. We have a challenging workplace where we welcome innovative ideas and offers growth opportunities and positive environment for accomplishing goals. Our purpose is to create abundance for everyone we touch.
Job Description:
- Experience on Open Source Platforms in designing/ developing Web-based applications.
- Require Strong knowledge in Python with application/package/module development, tuning, and debugging tools.
- Proficient understanding of Python Identifiers, Reserved Words, Basic Operators, Variable Types, and User defined exception handling with their usage.
- In-depth knowledge of Python Dictionary and default modules included in Python (String, DateTime, Numbers, and other required functions usage).
- Proficient understanding of Sequences and its differences (Tuples/Lists).
- File manipulation-using Python (Create, Edit, and Delete view file).
- Ability to organize code logically and with the understandable procedure that is well defined, documented, and testable.
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Skills Required:
- Strong understanding of OOPS and Design Patterns (Code design skills in Python-based object-oriented programming and functional programming).
- Developing Web Applications with Python - Hands on experience using MVC frameworks like Django.
- Exposure to Code Versioning Systems such as Atlassian Bitbucket.
- In-depth Knowledge in JavaScript and jQuery.
- The candidate must display excellent written and verbal skills with demonstrated interpersonal and organizational abilities.


About us:
Zethic Technologies is one of the leading creative tech studios based in Bangalore. Zethicās team members have years of experience in software development. Zethic specializes in Custom software development, Mobile Applications development, chatbot development, web application development, UI/UX designing, and consulting.Ā
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
- Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
- Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
- Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
- Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from the concept stage to delivery and post-launch support
- Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
- Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
- Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
- Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
Requirements and Qualifications:
- In-depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel PHP Framework
- Hands-on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
- Software testing (PHPUnit)
- MySQL profiling and query optimization
- Creative and efficient problem solver
- Proficient in frontend frameworks like Vue, React
Why join us?
- Weāre growing rapidly and the skyās the limit
- Work with a talented team youāll learn a lot from themĀ
- We care about delivering value to our excellent customers
- We are flexible in our opinions and always open to new ideasĀ
- We know it takes people with different ideas, strengths, backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and interests to make our Company succeed. We celebrate and respect all our employees equally.
Zethic ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex,Ā gender identity, age, disability, national origin, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

- Should be a Backend Developer - Python only
- Should be MCA/B.Tech IT
- Should have Database Knowledge
- Should have DJango Knowledge
- Writing effective, scalable code
- Good Communication


- Relevant Experience : Minimum 2 Years
- You have prior experience developing and working on consumer facing web/app products
- Hands-on experience on Python. Exceptions can be made if youāre really good on any other language with experience on building web/app based tech products
- Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
- You love doing things efficiently. At Fynd, the work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources


1. Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle. |
2. Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. |
3. Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code. |
4. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. |
5. Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues. |
6. Design, develop and implement new integration. |


Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a full product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, to roll out and support
- Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well
- Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure)
Role and Qualifications:
- 7+ Yearsā of experience, managing teams of 5+ people
- Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object Oriented Design principles.
- Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java, NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
- Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, Encapsulation etc
- Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
- Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka
- Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.Ā Ā




