
Principal Engineer (Python)
at FinTech product company from UK,
Your Responsibilities:
- Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
- Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
- Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
- Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.
Skills that you bring Along:
- A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
- Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
- Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
- Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
- Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
- Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
- Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
- Good experience with design patterns
- Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
- Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
- Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
- Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
- Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

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Job Title: Python Developer - Django (Full Time)
Location: Gurgaon, Onsite
Interview: Virtual Interview
Experience Required: 3+ Years
About the Role
We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, Django, distributed task queues using Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and experience working with event streaming platforms like Kafka.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python and Django.
- Implement and optimize task queues using Celery with Redis/RabbitMQ as brokers.
- Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Apache Kafka.
- Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices.
- Build RESTful APIs and integrate with external services.
- Ensure performance, scalability, and security of applications.
- Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and staging environments.
Required Skills & Experience
- 2+ years of professional experience in Python backend development.
- Strong knowledge of Django Framework.
- Hands-on experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
- Good understanding of REST API design principles.
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and Agile development.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
- Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
- Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
- Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
- Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
- Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
- Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
- Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
- Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.
Job description for Python/Backend Developer
We are actively looking for backend software engineers who are passionate about building cutting-edge systems that work on the latest tech stack (Python, Django) but also help save lives. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and lead the development of several AI-enabled products and solutions within the company that are geared to help accelerate the development of new cures and to reduce the inefficiencies in how healthcare information is managed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable APIs using Python/Django.
- Integrate third-party APIs like Facebook page API, Google Business API, and all other social APIs (10+)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Develop and maintain authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and SSO integration with third-party providers.
- Optimize and maintain existing APIs for performance and scalability.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience:
- 2+ years of experience in Python development.
- Proven experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs.
- Advanced proficiency in Python programming.
- Strong experience with databases (e.g., MySQL, Elasticsearch).
- Hands-on experience with SSO protocols and implementation (e.g., OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect).
- Experience integrating SSO with third-party providers.
- Proficiency in using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure data exchange
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Python and Python frameworks (Django, Flask).
- Solid understanding of web technologies (HTTP, SSL/TLS, JSON, XML).
- Familiarity with API documentation tools (e.g., Swagger, Postman).
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Expertise in authentication and authorization methods.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
- Experience in writing unit tests for code to ensure reliability and maintainability
Position of the role
The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.
Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities
The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.
Main objectives of the role
✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.
✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.
✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.
✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.
✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.
✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.
✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.
✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.
✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.
Specialisation
✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.
✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.
✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.
✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.
✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.
✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.
✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.
✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.
Key processes in the role
✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.
✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.
✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.
✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.
✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).
✔ Data-driven decision-making.
✔ Performance optimization.
Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)
✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).
✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.
✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.
✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.
✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.
Requirements
✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .
✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.
✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.
✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.
✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.
✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.
✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.
Competences
✔ Strategic Thinking - 4
✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4
✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4
✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3
Measures of success
✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.
✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.
✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.
✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.
✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.
✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.
✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.
✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.
Introduction:
Tyroo’s Vidtech.ai is one of the largest independent marketing automation clouds built for the video first world. We build software and platforms that allow our partners to derive maximum yields on their marketing spends on various video-first social platforms. We work on problems that involve building high availability, low latency solutions which require computing optimal decisions using various self-created modules as well as pre-available modules popular in the ML and Big Data world.
We are looking for a backend developer who has at least 1 year of professional experience in building systems on either Python or Node.js and is able to become an anchor/pillar for the team. The role will require you to architect and develop systems/features needed for our marketing automation products. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are also necessary so that the individual can train, educate and manage junior resources.
Key Requirements:
- Must be able to tackle complex business problems by breaking them down into sets of simpler problems and architect solutions for the same
- Must exhibit thought leadership and should be committed to mentoring and team building
- Must have excellent communication skills as the individual needs to collaborate with the Business and Product team
- Must be proactive towards changing software development landscape and keep upskilling
- Must be able to contribute in setting up best practices and effective design patterns in the complete development lifecycle.
Technical Requirements:
- Must have 3+ years of experience in developing scalable systems on Python/Node.js with a strong grasp of microservices and serverless architectural patterns
- Must have prior experience with databases like MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis
- Must be exposed to cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and containerization using Dockers
- Must have worked with RESTful APIs and WebSockets
- Must have a deep understanding of HTTP, web browsers and token-based authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT)
- Must be experienced on Version Control Tools (Git) and Package Managers (npm, yarn, pip)
- Must adhere to coding standards and have the habit of doing unit testing along with regular and rigorous code reviews
- Should know about microservices orchestration using Kubernetes, web servers like Nginx/Apache and queuing systems like Kafka/Kinesis
Clinical Trials are the biggest bottleneck in bringing new drugs, devices, and vaccines to patients. On average, getting a new drug through the trial process takes nearly a decade and frequently costs $1B+. To make it worse, the process is inflicted with a great number of transparency issues. We are aiming to solve this through technology and platformization of clinical trials. We develop and offer next-generation technology platforms to pharmaceutical and biotech companies for running their clinical trials by integrating the entire process in an end-to-end workflow. Since Day 1, our vision is to make clinical trials faster, seamless, accessible to patients, and more transparent. We are driven by our technology-first approach to reduce inefficiency and increase patient-centricity in Clinical Trials. Founded by IIT Roorkee Alumni, Triomics is backed by top investors such as Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and General Catalyst.
Responsibilities:
1. Writing clean, modular, scalable, and reusable code with well-maintained documentation.
2. Working closely with the founding team to come up with product implementation architecture.
3. Designing and Implementing APIs while closely collaborating with front-end developers.
4. Implementing a stable and automated DevOps pipeline with state-of-the-art cloud services.
5. Developing database schemas and routinely evaluating them as per product requirements.
6. Maintaining a high coverage of testing by implementing Unit as well as Integration tests.
Tech Stack:
Our tech stack includes Python, Django, PostgreSQL for the backend, and ReactJS for the frontend.
We also use Celery and Redis for scheduling and multiple AWS services combined with docker for
deployment.
Requirements:
1. Bachelors in Computer Science or related field with 1-6 years of experience
2. Have implemented and deployed at least 1 or 2 production-level applications in the past.
3. Strong experience with Python (Django) as well as REST APIs.
4. Comfortable working with SQL Databases (Preferably PostgreSQL)
5. Experience with DevOps - Docker or Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS.
6. Prior experience of working in an early-stage startup environment is a plus.
Benefits:
1. Competitive CTC: 10-30% hike in the fixed component from your last or current salary +
ESOPs ( 10 - 25L)
2. Rent-Free accommodation in Gurugram
3. Flexible paid time off for full-time employees & paid leave for new parents
Card91 is simplifying business payments by providing a plug and play issuance infrastructure
to businesses for domestic and cross-border payments. Our full stack platform enables
businesses to gain control and visibility into their payment flows, controlling the entire payment
lifecycle from onboarding, to issuance, to transaction and data reconciliation. The platform
aims to provide holistic solutions around payment issuance and distribution management. Our
deep focus in payments will help us in bringing new issuance formats as well as technologies
to businesses.
The company has been founded by seasoned technology entrepreneurs who have founded
successful companies like Myntra, Mastiff Technologies earlier. Headquartered in Bangalore,
with presence in Mumbai and NCR, Card91 aims to disrupt the payment infrastructure space
in the issuer-processor segment.
Position: Python Developer
We are building our core team which will be responsible for a highly scalable, always available
microservices based backend for payment processing. The developer will be involved with the
design, implementation, and execution from day one and build a robust, secure, and scalable
payment processing engine.
Roles & Responsibilities
● Individual Contributors talking full ownership of the micro services
● Design and Implement the micro services from scratch
● Be creative and always try to evaluate new strategies to execute faster
● Team player and always eager to teach new team members about the code,
● structure and design
● Not afraid of bringing new designs (even languages) which will make the system
execute faster
Experience and Qualifications
● Having 2 - 5 years of experience
● Degree from a premier institute like IIT/NIT/BITS is desirable
● A strong expertise in Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
● Experience in creating APIs with design standards, patterns and best-practices
● Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
● GoLang experience is a big plus
● Experience building web services in REST
● knowledge and hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation
(Oauth, OpenId)
● Experience in developing highly scalable and reliable web applications, including
integration with internal and external systems.
● Experience in databases like MySQL and NoSQL db like Cassandra, etc.
● Experience with Cloud computing AWS & Microservices architecture
● Exposure to front end technologies like VueJS, ReactJS etc is an advantage
● Docker & Kubernetes experience is a big plus
● Previous experience of Fintech company is an added advantage
What’s on offer
● Vibrant, fun and rewarding culture that nurtures and promotes excellence
● Opportunities to learn and interact with payment industry leaders
● Competitive remuneration, group health insurance & PF
● Other office perks of being part of an early-stage startup
Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore
- Apply fundamental software engineering design principles and write effective, scalable code.
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Strong understanding of multi-threading, synchronization & performance analysis of web applications
- Highly experienced with developing RESTful API’s
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Develop unit tests, automation and debug code
- Improve & maintain the functionality of existing systems
- Implement security and data protection solutions
- Understand the big picture, coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
Roles & Responsibilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field.
- 5+ work experience as a Python Developer
- Expertise in Django or at least one other popular Python web framework
- (like Flask or Pyramid)
- Excellent Python 3 development & debugging skills
- Knowledge of object oriented analysis & design as well as object-relational mapping (ORM) techniques
- Strong understanding microservices architecture & design patterns
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles, including good
- documentation of API using Swagger/OpenAPI specifications
- Familiarity with GIT
- Familiarity with microservices development & deployment, including CI/CD pipelines
- (e.g. Jenkins) and containerization platforms (e.g, Docker)
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
- Excellent team spirit & exceptional problem-solving skills
- Back-end development using Python/Django
- Front-end development using CSS, HTML and JS
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Implement security and data protection
- Use Amazon Relational Database Service
- Commit, push, pull and sync to Bitbucket, GitLab
- Deployment of code on MS Azure and AWS
- Build efficient scripts and cron jobs in GCP
- Connect apps and automate workflows using Integromat
- 3+ years of Professional Full time experience building and maintaining complex software on a cross-functional team. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
- Python and Django
- Strong database skills
- Basic systems administration
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum product dev experience of 3+ years in web/mobile startups with expertise in designing and implementing high performance web applications.
- You're an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production env and finally monitoring.
- Sound working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is an add-on
- Technical know-how of MS Azure, AWS and GCP are desirable
- Understand and keep the technical documentation up-to-date on Confluence
- Collaborate work using bug tracking and project management tools like Jira, Redmine
Strong understanding of software development cycle
-Hands on experience in Python and familiarity with at least one framework, preferably Django
-Experience in third party integrations.
-Strong understanding of relational databases (MySql, Postgresql etc.)
-Comfortable with search engines like ElasticSearch.
-Hands on experience of AWS services.
-Knowledge of version control tools like Git/SVN.
-Strong unit testing and debugging skills.
-Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
-Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Fluency or understanding of specific languages such Java, PHP, HTML or Python .and Operating System.
Good to have:
-Hands on experience of AWS services.
-Good exposure in writing and optimising SQL(such as PostgreSQL) for high-performance systems with large databases.
-Exposure at handling server side issues and quick resolution.
-Experience working on scalable, high availability applications/services.











