Principal Engineer (Python)

Position Title : Python Django Developer

Location : Gurgaon (6 Days WFO)

Experience : 3+ Years

Job Overview :

We are looking for a skilled Python Django Developer with a strong background in developing scalable, high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate must have 3+ Years of hands-on experience in Django and related technologies, including 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 for asynchronous communication.
• Integrate Redis for caching and session management to optimize application performance.
• Implement and manage task queues using Celery for efficient background processing.
• Work with PostgreSQL, ensuring proper database design, query optimization, and performance 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.
• 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.

Required Technical Skills :

• Minimum 3+ Years of relevant experience in Python and Django framework.
• Proficiency in RabbitMQ for message brokering.
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and session management.
• Strong knowledge of Celery for distributed task queues.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, including database design, indexing, and optimization.
• Expertise in RESTful API design and development.
• Understanding of Docker and containerized applications.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of Django ORM and its performance optimizations.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to adapt to an agile development environment and evolving requirements.

Educational Qualifications :

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

Backend Developer

About the Role:

We’re looking for a skilled Backend Developer (2–6 years of experience) who can design and build scalable backend systems, ensure high-performance APIs, and contribute to the technology powering a fast-growing jewelry platform. You’ll work closely with product and frontend teams to deliver robust, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Write clean, secure, and well-documented backend code.
• Work with relational databases, ensuring optimized queries and data integrity.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver end-to-end features.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems for performance and reliability.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technology choices as the platform scales.

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of professional experience as a Backend Developer.
• Strong proficiency in Python with frameworks like Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, schema design, and query optimization.
• Experience building and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of version control (Git).
• Familiarity with Docker.
• Understanding of microservices architecture (good to have).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (good to have).
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills.
• Experience working in e-commerce or marketplace environments.

What’s in It for You:

• High ownership role in a fast-paced environment.
• Opportunity to work closely with the founding team and passionate professionals.
• Competitive salary with fast career growth and appraisals.
• Dynamic, collaborative, and politics-free work culture.
• Health insurance coverage.

Additional Details:

• Early-stage startup environment where meaningful achievements require dedication and passion.
• 6-day work week.
• Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore.

Job Description:

Candidate must have 2 to 5-years of experience in various phase of development of a python-based application or API development.

Requirements:

Must Have:  Strong expertise in PYTHON and its built-in data structures, developing API using flask or fastapi, data wrangling using standard python frameworks like pandas, NumPy etc., integration of various applications (third party or inhouse) with python.

Good to Have: Deployment using Nginx, GUnicorn, IIS, docker and Kubernetes etc. Good understanding of optimization solutions like differential evolution. Hands on experience with python packages like Scipy.  Tkinter to make python-based applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understanding/gathering the requirements from stakeholder, formulating the problem, and leveraging AI/ML to solve the business problems.
• Integration of third party or in house application with python solution.
• Working on Deployment and optimization of various engineering problems using Numerical/Constraint optimization frameworks such as Differential Evolution and deploy a web-based API using Flask and Nginx/IIS.
• Unit testing of various python modules developed and testing of the API.

 JD / Skills Sets

1. Good knowledge on Python

2. Good knowledge on My-Sql, mongodb 

3. Design Pattern

4. OOPs

5. Automation

6. Web scraping

7. Redis queue

8. Basic idea of Finance Domain will be beneficial.

9. Git10. AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

About Tazapay Tazapay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce, technology, cross border trade and high growth technology businesses. The company is financially backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, RTP Global etc. We https://tazapay.com/ are a Singapore-based b2b and payments startup enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce securely. We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration towards digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. The pandemic will change that equation

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight

• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies

• An enormous sense of ownership

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures

• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++

• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.

• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases

• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem

• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus

• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols. Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.

• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.

• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions

• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues

• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach

• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: upto 20LPA

We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.

We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.

How we work

1. You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
2. We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
3. We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
4. We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
5. We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
6. We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.

The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:

1. You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
2. You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
3. You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
4. Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
5. You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
6. Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.

We want you to care about

1. Good object oriented design
2. Performant APIs
3. Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
4. Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
5. Customer data and privacy.

Our API Stack services use:

1. Python 3.8+, Typescript
2. FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
3. PostgresSQL, MySQL
4. Redis
5. Celery
6. Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
7. Gitlab CI/CD
8. Amazon ECS container services

Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.