Principal Engineer - Backend

Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer – Java, AI & Automation

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Any Cognizant location (India)

Work Mode : Hybrid

Interview Rounds :

1. Virtual
2. Face-to-Face (In-person)

Job Description :

Join our Backend Engineering team to design and maintain services on the Intuit Data Exchange (IDX) platform.

You'll work on scalable backend systems powering millions of daily transactions across Intuit products.

Key Qualifications :

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong in Java, Spring framework.
• Experience with microservices, databases, and web applications.
• Proficient in AWS and cloud-based systems.
• Exposure to AI and automation tools (Workato preferred).
• Python development experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable with occasional US shift overlap.

Job Title: Python Developer (Full Time)

Location: Hyderabad (Onsite)

Interview: Virtual and Face to Face Interview (Last round)

Experience Required: 4 + Years  

Working Days: 5 Days

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Python Developer with a strong background in building scalable and secure applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Python frameworks, API integrations, and modern application architectures. This role requires a tech leader who can balance innovation, performance, and compliance while driving successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Application Development

• Architect and develop robust, high-performance applications using Django, Flask, and FastAPI.

1. API Integration

• Design and implement seamless integration with third-party APIs (including travel-related APIs, payment gateways, and external service providers).

1. Data Management

• Develop and optimize ETL pipelines for structured and unstructured data using data lakes and distributed storage solutions.

1. Microservices Architecture

• Build modular, scalable applications using microservices principles for independent deployment and high availability.

1. Performance Optimization

• Enhance application performance through load balancing, caching, and query optimization to deliver superior user experiences.

1. Security & Compliance

• Apply secure coding practices, implement data encryption, and ensure compliance with industry security and privacy standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR).

1. Automation & Deployment

• Utilize CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, and monitoring tools for automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring.

1. Collaboration

• Partner with front-end developers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centric, business-aligned solutions.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Technical Expertise

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and big data tools (Spark, Kafka).
• Familiarity with Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus for monitoring and visualization.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Working knowledge of testing tools: PyTest, Selenium, SonarQube.
• Experience with API integrations, booking flows, and payment gateway integrations (travel domain knowledge is a plus, but not mandatory).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and teamwork abilities.
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to perform under pressure.

JD:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams. 

Key Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience
• Extensive experience on C/C++/Python
• Experience on OS - Unix/Linux and Windows
• Hands on experience in Networking and Multi-threading

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, system programming is a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

• Play key role in design/development of security product. 
• Responsible for the complete software development cycle.
• Gathering & understanding requirements.
• Design, development & implementation independently.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Will be able to work in end to end features. 

Qualification:

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

• You're proficient in GoLang with a strong foundation in backend frameworks and databases 
• Knowing Solidity is a definite plus but not a requirement
• You have a passion for writing code as well as understanding and crafting the ways systems interact
• You have experience deploying to and implementing solutions in AWS
• You believe in the benefits of agile processes and shipping code often
• You are pragmatic and work to coalesce requirements into reasonable solutions that provide value

• Deploy well-tested, maintainable and scalable software solutions
• Take end-to-end ownership of the technology stack and product 
• Collaborate with other engineers to architect scalable technical solutions
• Embrace and improve our standards and processes to reduce friction and unlock efficiency

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Job Responsibilities

• Should have experience in Software Product Development at an enterprise level.  .
• Analyze requirements and come up with possible solutions to solve the problem, evaluating and capturing necessary tradeoffs
• Build and improve newest services and ensure that they are well tested and released quickly and often to our customers
•  Debugging capabilities and identify the root cause of the problem and fix them.
•  Influencing the architecture of an application. 
•  Design and implement cloud based high-performance, highly available services to cover customers’ high demands and big data volumes 
•  Maintain rapid deployment pipelines and observability of the services to support operations/troubleshooting. 
•  Think about security of the whole technical stack and processes to ensure customers’ data is safe 
•  Take care of all aspects of the product: from implementation, through testing, to operations.

Job Requirements

• Proficiency in Python programming
• Mandate experience working as a Python Developer with Django.
• Should have good experience in Flask, numpy and pandas
• Should have good experience in REST API development with Django.
• Have In-depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming ( OOPs ) concepts.
• Are Able to create Database Schemes that represent and support business processes.
• Should have good understanding of Agile frameworks such as Git, Jenkins etc.
• Must have experience working on MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & jQuery.
• Must have experience with Web Servers e.g. Nginx, Apache.
• Good to have AI/ML/Data science certification.
• Must be a fast learner and comfortable teaching yourself new skills and can thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Positive attitude and excellent communication as well as written skills

• Previous working experience as a Python Web Developer for min 2 years.

• Hands-on experience with Django, Flask, or other Python frameworks.

• Experience with Design implementation of objects and data models.

• Working knowledge in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.

• Understanding of CI/CD practices.

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN.

• Hands-on experience with complex scripts in Python to capture business logic and automate system management tasks.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 8+ years experience in web application development and architecture.
• ·Extensive experience using open source software libraries
• Strong experience in at least one MVC architecture or application of the pattern
• Solid hands on experience with Java
• Strong experience with SQL ( Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
• Strong experience in Data Structures & Algorithms
• ·Must have built end to end continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for micro services
• Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
• Must possess excellent communication and teamwork skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills are required.
• Self-starter that is results focused with the ability to work independently and in teams.
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GOOD TO HAVE:

• Prior experience building modular, common and scalable services
• Experience using chef, puppet or other deployment automation tools
• Experience working within a distributed engineering team including offshore
• Bonus points if you have contributed to an open source project
• Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
• Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the end-user experience, software quality, and developer productivity