
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 Django Developer
Location : Gurgaon (On-site)
Work Mode : 6 Days a Week (Work from Office)
Experience Level : 3+ Years
About the Role :
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Python Django Developer to join our team in Gurgaon. This role requires a hands-on developer with expertise in building scalable web applications and APIs using Python and Django. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in relational databases, message brokers, and distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure web applications using Python and Django.
- Build and optimize back-end services, RESTful APIs, and integrations with third-party tools.
- Implement and maintain asynchronous task processing using Celery and RabbitMQ.
- Work with PostgreSQL to design and optimize database schemas and queries.
- Utilize Redis and Kafka for caching, data streaming, and other distributed system needs.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues across the application stack.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
- Ensure code quality through comprehensive testing, code reviews, and adherence to best practices.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in Python and strong experience with Django framework.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL for database design and management.
- Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Celery, and Redis for asynchronous processing and caching.
- Experience with Kafka for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
Other Skills:
- Strong understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
- Proficiency in writing efficient, reusable, and testable code.
- Good knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
- Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments is a plus.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Good communication and teamwork abilities.
- Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in microservices architecture.
- Exposure to DevOps tools and practices.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies like React or Angular is a bonus.

Role: Python Developer (Immediate Joiner)
Location: Gurugram, India (Onsite)
Experience: 4+ years
Company: Mizzle Cloud Pvt Ltd
Working Days: 6 Days( 5 days- WFO, Sat- WFH)
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Python Django Developer with expertise in building robust, scalable, and efficient web applications. Must have 3+ years of core work experience. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, and PostgreSQL to ensure seamless background task management, caching, and database performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance Django-based web applications and APIs.
- Design and implement message broker solutions using RabbitMQ to manage asynchronous communication.
- Integrate Redis for caching and session storage to optimize performance.
- Implement and manage task queues using Celery for background processes.
- Work with PostgreSQL for database design, optimization, and query tuning.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, DevOps engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Write clean, modular, and well-documented code following best practices and standards.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the application stack.
- Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and team meetings.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of applications.
Technical Skills:
- Must have minimum 4+ years of relevant work experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and Django framework.
- Experience with message brokers, particularly RabbitMQ.
- Familiarity with Redis for caching and session management.
- Hands-on experience with Celery for distributed task queues.
- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, including database design and optimization.
- Knowledge of RESTful API design and development.
- Understanding of Docker and containerized applications.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
- Knowledge of Django ORM and its optimizations.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Ability to work in an agile environment and adapt to changing requirements.
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Key Responsibilities:
● Work closely with product managers, designers, frontend developers, and other
cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless integration and alignment of frontend and
backend technologies, driving cohesive and high-quality product delivery.
● Develop and implement coding standards and best practices for the backend team.
● Document technical specifications and procedures.
● Stay up-to-date with the latest backend technologies, trends, and best practices.
● Collaborate with other departments to identify and address backend-related issues.
● Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality and consistency across the backend team.
● Create technical documentation, ensuring clarity for future development and
maintenance.
Requirements;
● Experience: 4-6 years of hands-on experience in backend development, with a strong
background in product-based companies or startups.
● Education: Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
● Programming skills: Proficient in Python and software development principles, with a
focus on clean, maintainable code, and industry best practices. Experienced in unit
testing, AI-driven code reviews, version control with Git, CI/CD pipelines using GitHub
Actions, and integrating New Relic for logging and APM into backend systems.
● Database Development: Proficiency in developing and optimizing backend systems in
both relational and non-relational database environments, such as MySQL and NoSQL
databases.
● GraphQL: Proven experience in developing and managing robust GraphQL APIs,
preferably using Apollo Server. Ability to design type-safe GraphQL schemas and
resolvers, ensuring seamless integration and high performance.
● Cloud Platforms: Familiar with AWS and experienced in Docker containerization and
orchestrating containerized systems.
● System Architecture: Proficient in system design and architecture with experience in
developing multi-tenant platforms, including security implementation, user onboarding,
payment integration, and scalable architecture.
● Linux Systems: Familiarity with Linux systems is mandatory, including deployment and
management.
● Continuous Learning: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to
influence architectural decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Benefits:
● Competitive salary.
● Health insurance.
● Casual dress code.
● Dynamic & Collaboration friendly office.
● Hybrid work schedule.
Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
Employment Type
Full-time
- Deployment and production support.
- Strong knowledge of SQL database and experience in writing queries with and without ORM.
- Designing and creating RESTful APIs for internal and partner consumption
- Experience of code versioning tools, such as Git, Bitbucket, Github
What would make you a good fit?
- You’re both relentless and kind, and don’t see these as being mutually exclusive
- You have a self-directed learning style, an insatiable curiosity, and a hands-on execution mindset
- You have deep experience working with product and engineering teams to launch backend services that power end-user applications
- You have deep experience in Python and the related tools and frameworks
- You have deep experience working with large datasets and relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL
- You have experience with microservices architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes
- You continuously raise the bar on development practices such as code quality tools, unit testing coverage, build tools, etc.
- You obsess about correctness, DRY development, reducing cognitive complexity, and performance
- You have excellent writing and speaking skills with a talent for applying technical solutions to customer problem statements
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building RESTful services
- 2+ years of experience in Django Rest Framework, Flask, and/or FastAPI
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and Postgres to manage and analyze data
- Expert level skills using a debugging tool and developing unit tests
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture
- Prior startup experience and enjoy taking on difficult challenges and broad responsibilities
- Track-record of delivering reliable and scalable RESTful services from requirements to production
- You’ve partnered with devops to deliver high-performant backend solutions to production
- You naturally think quantitatively about problems and work backward from a customer outcome
What’ll make you stand out (but not required)
- Terraform and AWS experience
- Experience creating technical design documents
- You have a strong connection to finance teams or closely related domains, the challenges they face, and deep appreciation for their aspirations
technical solutions implementation, architecture design, evaluation
and investigation in a cloud environment (specifically AWS and/or
Azure), preferably with IoT products.
● Working with smaller startups or mid-sized companies
Experience in one of following programming languages:
Python/Node.js
● Python and restful API frameworks. Experience of
working/integrating with cloud services providers like AWS
(preferred) / Azure / GCP
● Good understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript & jQuery. Hands
on experience with React.js/React.native Experience in REST APIs,
SSO.
● Experience with server-side programming in a high volume
large system / application environment including the availability,
scalability, resiliency, and performance design patterns
● Management of hosting environment, including database
administration (preferably relational databases MySQL, Postgres etc.)
● Familiarity with software configuration management tools,
defect tracking tools, peer review tools and source control systems
(like git). Create and maintain good quality software documentation.
● Experience & willingness to work with overseas (e.g. USA)
customers and product management teams
● Experience building, leading, managing and mentoring highperformance engineering teams of 3-10 engineers
● Good verbal & written communication skills in English
Your Role
We at Innovaccer are looking for Software Development Engineer-II (Backend) to build the most amazing product experience. You’ll get to work with other engineers to build delightful feature experience to understand and solve our customer’s pain points.
A Day in the Life
- Building efficient and reusable applications and abstractions.
- Identify and communicate back-end best practices.
- Participate in the project life-cycle from pitch/prototyping through definition and design to build, integration, QA and delivery
- Analyse and improve the performance, scalability, stability, and security of the product
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
What You Need
- 3+ years of experience with a start-up mentality and high willingness to learn
- Solid knowledge of Python and experience with any web framework (Django, etc)
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skill
- Experience in Web Services and REST.
- Experience in RDBMS & NoSQL database.
- Experience in Solution Architecture.
- Proven experience with Git.
- Knowledge of high-level JavaScript concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, promises, data-binding, async-await, etc.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering.
Preferred Skills
- Expert in Python and Django Code Reviews
- Server Deployment
- Mongo DB/Postgres SQL DB
- JIRA Administration
What We Offer
- Industry-focused Certifications: We want you to be a subject matter expert in what you do. So, whether it’s our product or our domain, you will dive straight in and be certified by the best in the world.
- Quarterly Rewards and Recognition Programs: We foster learning and encourage people to take moonshots. When you achieve your goals, we recognize and reward your hard work.
- Health Benefits: We cover health insurance for you and your loved ones.
- Sabbatical Policy: We encourage people to take time off and rejuvenate, upskill and pursue their interests so that they can generate new ideas for innovating at Innovaccer.
- Pet-friendly office and open floor plan. No mundane cubicles.
- Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
- Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
- Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
- Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
- Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
- Performance tuning and automation of application
- Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
- Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
- Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
- Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results
Technical Skills-
Good proficiency in,
- Python frameworks like Django, etc.
- Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
- Core Python fundamentals and programming
- Code packaging, release, and deployment
- Database knowledge
- Circles, conditional and control statements
- Object-relational mapping
- Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket
Fundamental understanding of,
- Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
- AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
- Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
- Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
- Creating predictive models
- Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
- Multi-process architecture
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
| Sr. Software Engineer - Open Source | ||
| Department: MindLabs | ||
| Location: Bangalore | ||
| Job Description | ||
| 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. | ||
| 7. Able to manage team of developers | ||
| Skills: | ||
| ----------- | ||
| 1. Django full stack development experience more than 4 - 6 years (Python, Django, PostgreSQL) | ||
| 2. Experience of front-end development (Angular, Bootstrap, CSS, jQuery) | ||
| 3. Bug fixing in Django/Python/Web protocol | ||
| 4. Having experience in development of heavy traffic web solution | ||
| 5. Experience in working with LMS tools customization and integration will be added advantage | ||
| Education | ||
| Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree |
- Expert in Python. Comfortable with Web frameworks, such as Flask or Django
- Familiarity with Object Relational Mapping Libraries and ability to Integrate with Multiple Data Sources into One System
- Understanding of Limitations of Python and Multi Process Architecture. Understanding of Design Principles of Scalable Application
- Has familiarity with data frameworks in Python - Pandas or
- Good object-oriented design skills and knowledge of design
- Knowledge of key-value stores, caching, search, messaging queues
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the above







