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Job Title: Python / Django Backend Developer
Experience: 3+ Years
Location: Gurgaon (Onsite)
Work Mode: 5 Days Working
About the Company
We are hiring for a product-based global furniture and homeware organization with operations in the UK and India. The company builds and maintains in-house digital platforms focused on design-to-delivery, supply-chain, and logistics. The team focuses on building scalable, high-performance internal systems.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services using Python & Django / Django REST Framework
- Build scalable, secure, and optimized database schemas and queries using PostgreSQL/MySQL
- Collaborate with frontend, product, and QA teams for end-to-end feature delivery
- Write clean, reusable, and testable code following best engineering practices
- Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability
- Participate in code reviews, documentation, and CI/CD processes
- Deploy and manage backend services on cloud infrastructure and web servers
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in Python and Django / Django REST Framework
- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
- Experience with REST API design, authentication & authorization
- Working knowledge of AWS services: EC2, ELB, S3, IAM, RDS
- Experience configuring and managing Nginx/Apache
- Familiarity with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Experience with Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka
- Knowledge of testing frameworks (Pytest, unittest)
- Exposure to e-commerce platforms or high-traffic scalable systems
Location: Bhavnagar [On-site]
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, and maintain web applications using Laravel framework.
- Build and integrate RESTful APIs.
- Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications.
- Troubleshoot issues and debug code.
Requirements:
- 6+ Months of experience in PHP Laravel development.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, Laravel, MySQL, MVC architecture, and OOP.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Experience with Git or other version control systems.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary
- Growth opportunities
- Friendly and collaborative team environment
Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and 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.
We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:
- Create and consume restful APIs
- Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
- Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
- Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
- Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Requirement
∙ Proficient in Node.JS
∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql
∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch
Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline
Work experience: 2 years relevant experience
Compensation: Based on Industry Standards
Interview Mode : Face to Face
We are a pre-seed stage startup & have set aside a large ESOP for this role that will create significant wealth for the successful candidate.
Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.
For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.
Key Responsibilities of the Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
- Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
- Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
- Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
- Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
- Set up processes related to engineering & product
Skills / Required Experience:
- B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
- At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
- Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
- Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
- Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
- Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
- Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Understand and evaluate complex data models.
- Design, develop and implement new integration.
- Execute system development and maintenance activities.
- Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
- A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
- Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns
- Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
- Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
- Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.
Good to have
- Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.
Your core responsibilities:
- Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
- Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
- Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
- Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
- Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
- Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.
What will help you thrive in this role?
- Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
- Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
- Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
- Good in Database schema design.
- Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
- Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
- Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
- Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.
Whom you will be sharing your work day with?
We are a language agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are:- We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
- We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
- We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
- We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
- Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
- We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.
And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.
Work Perks
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- A great salary, commensurate with experience.
- Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
- A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
- Weekly parties (Unofficial).
- Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
- Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

- Strong proficiency in MySQL database administration, migrations /up-gradation, patching, cloning, capacity planning, designing, and automation of database tasks.
- Good experience with the latest versions of the database
- In-depth experience configuring database replication on multiple versions
- Strong experience in Monitoring, DB Performance Tuning, DB Availability, DR, Security, Storage
- Analyzes and provides recommendations to optimize the database for improved performance, manageability, and scalability
- Expertise in enterprise backups, recovery, and performing point-in-time recovery Experience in deploying and integrating PM tools
- Experience in data partitioning and encryption
- Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and MongoDB
- Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements and Knowledge of MySQL features, such as its event scheduler
- Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN
Responsibilities:
- Strong Technical Chops: You should know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
- You should be on top of the latest architectural trends.
- Fast Learners: We are looking for folks who thrive on new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fit all solutions.
- You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.
- You understand requirements beyond the written word.
- Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch.
- Experience in Java and web technologies.
- Experience in any one scripting language like Python.
- Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
- Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing and deployment.








