
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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At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for a talented engineer to join our technology team at Chennai.
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This is an opportunity to join a growing team and make a substantial impact at BigThinkCode. We have a challenging workplace where we welcome innovative ideas / talents and offers growth opportunities and positive environment.
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Below job description for your reference, if interested please share your profile to connect and discuss.
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Company: BigThinkCode Technologies
URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/
Job Role: Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
Experience: 2 - 5 years
Work location: Chennai
Work Mode: Hybrid
Joining time: Immediate ā 4 weeks
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance backend features as part of the tech team.
- Take ownership of features end-to-end in a fast-paced product/startup environment.
- Collaborate with managers, designers, and engineers to deliver user-facing functionality.
- Design and implement scalable REST APIs and supporting backend systems.
- Write clean, reusable, well-tested code and contribute to internal libraries.
- Participate in requirement discussions and translate business needs into technical tasks.
- Support the technical roadmap through architectural input and continuous improvement.
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Required Skills:
- Strong understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and OOP principles.
- Integrate with third-party systems (payment/SMS APIs, mapping services, etc.).
- Proficiency in Python and experience with at least one framework (Flask / Django / FastAPI).
- Hands-on experience with design patterns, debugging, and unit testing (pytest/unittest).
- Working knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases and ORMs (SQLAlchemy / Django ORM).
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming (async/await, FastAPI async).
- Experience with caching mechanisms (Redis).
- Ability to perform code reviews and maintain code quality.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Basic understanding of message brokers (RabbitMQ / Kafka / Redis streams).
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Benefits:
Ā· Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
Ā· Tax beneficial salary structure.
Ā· Comprehensive leave policy
Ā· Competency development training programs.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
- Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
- Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
- Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
- Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.
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Requirements:
- A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
- Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
- Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
- Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
- Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
- Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
- Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES
ļ· Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
quality over quantity.
ļ· Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
ļ· Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
ļ· AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
important to us.
ļ· The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
ļ· We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
ļ· If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
Person should have strong knowledge in -
1. Core Java,
2. JSP
3. Spring Framework,
4. Spring Boot,
5. SOAP and REST Webservices
6. Application Security.
Person should haveĀ 4 to 6 YearsĀ of work experience in Java and the above-mentioned related technology.
Person should have good Oracle Database knowledge and have good communication skills.
Having work experience in BFSI domain will added advantage
Person needs to work from Mumbai location and also available to join the office
Skills Required:
- Good experience withĀ programming language Python
- Strong experience inĀ Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of theĀ Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills
Your responsibilities as a backend engineer will include:
- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
What we are looking for:
- 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.Ā
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases.
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good Humor
Note- We are currently working from home due to the pandemic. If selected you may work from a remote location though once office reopens candidate must work from Office.
Software Engineer - II (Backend)
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As a Software Engineer ā II, you'll bring a good understanding of design and coding practices and apply these independently in development. In this role - you could expect to:
- Own the lifecycle of a feature from requirement analysis to deployment and post production processes
- Perform code reviews and support your team implement best practices
- Explore trade off's on module designs
- Continuously improve performance metrics of modules owned. Performs RCAs and deploys long term fixes.
- Implement initiatives that improve engineering efficiency and excellence
- Participate in the hiring and interview process for junior developers on your team
Easebuzz is a payment solutions (fintech organisation) company which enables online merchants to accept, process and disburse payments through developer friendly APIs. We are focusing on building plug n play products including the payment infrastructure to solve
complete business problems. Definitely a wonderful place where all the actions related to payments, lending, subscription, eKYC is happening at the same time.We have been consistently profitable and are constantly developing new innovative products, as a result, we are able to grow 4x over the past year alone. We are well capitalised and have recently closed a fundraise of $4M in March, 2021 from prominent VC
firms and angel investors. Easebuzzās corporate culture is tied into the vision of building a workplace which breeds open communication and minimal bureaucracy. An equal opportunity employer, we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace. One thing you can be sure of is that you will be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow. Easebuzz Pvt. Ltd. has its presence in Pune, Bangalore, Gurugram.
Job Description
We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all servers-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front
end. At EaseBuzz, every individual is honed to be a leader and enjoys the freedom to make decisions that she/he sees fit to steer the organization closer towards its goals. We work in small, decentralized teams that promote independent authority and freedom to approach and solve problems creatively. This path nurtures the artisan in every individual and brings to fruition the vision of crafting purpose-built solutions for clients.
Benefits
ā Transparent, Performance Driven Culture.
ā Fun, Collaborative Team Environment
ā Medical Benefits & Flexible work hours
Designation: Back End Developer
Experience: 2-4 yrs of development experience in Python
Responsibilities
ā Requirement gathering & understanding, effort estimation, technical design,
project planning, and monitoring in an Agile environment.
ā Full Software Development Lifecycle (Agile)
ā Code reviews, test case reviews and ensure code developed meets the
requirements.
ā Implementation of security and data protection
ā Design and implementation of data storage solutions
ā Carry out adaptive changes necessitated by changes in Business
Skills And Qualifications
ā Proficient knowledge of Python
ā Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django/ Flask)
ā Well versed with database queries like MySQL or Postgres, etc and have the ability to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
ā Should possess in-depth knowledge of object-relational mapping
ā Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
ā Basics of tuning application performance
ā Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
ā Experience with tools like Celery, Nginx, Gunicorn etc.
ā Experience in Kafka writing Consumers and Producers would be a plus
point.
ā Experience with AWS or GCP would be a plus point
ā Experience in Microservices, Event-driven systems, Caching would be a plus point
Employment Type
Full Time







