
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 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
Job Title: Backend Developer - Fintech
Responsibilities:
- Architect and Develop: Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications and actionable plans.
- Debug and Resolve: Identify and fix backend issues and bugs, ensuring a seamless user experience for financial applications.
- Optimize Systems: Continuously enhance backend systems for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Code Quality: Uphold high standards of code quality, organization, and implement automated testing processes to meet industry standards.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of fintech industry trends, technological advancements, and regulatory updates to continually improve backend architecture.
Requirements:
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in backend development with a strong skill set in Python and Django.
- API Development: Extensive experience in developing secure and compliant RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework.
- Database Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of MySQL for database design, optimization, and maintenance; experience with MongoDB is a plus.
- DevOps: Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization.
- Cloud Services: Exposure to cloud services (AWS, GCP) with an emphasis on security and regulatory compliance.
- Software Principles: Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices in the fintech domain.
- Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
- Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team-oriented fintech environment.
- Version Control: Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development.
Preferred Skills:
- Asynchronous Processing: Familiarity with asynchronous task processing using Celery or similar technologies, especially in financial transaction processing.
- AWS Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, with a focus on security and compliance.
- GCP Expertise : VPC, Virtual Machines, SQL, IP whitelisting
- Caching Mechanisms: Experience with caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis) for optimizing real-time data access and processing.
- Continuous Learning: Eagerness to learn and adapt, staying updated with emerging technologies and methodologies in backend development and the fintech industry.
Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.
As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.
In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.
What You’ll Do:
- Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
- Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
- Build reusable components and packages for future use.
- Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
- Peer review code and refactor existing code.
- Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.
Requirements
We’re Looking for Someone With:
- Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
- Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
- Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
- Ability to create high quality code
- Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
- Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
- Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
- Experienced in the tools of our web stack- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
- Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
- Cloud deployment and scaling experience
Simform is a fast-growing software services company mainly serving and having a presence in North America. Simform has built a solid work culture that is focused on learning, growth, and work-life balance. Simform is well-known for its very good work culture and loved by employees.
Please read more about the company and work culture here : https://www.simform.com/careers/
Job Description :
Summary : Major focus will be the development of server-side logic to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests received from front-end. Deployment on the production server.
Responsibilities :
- Understanding the project requirement and coding the programs efficiently to meet the client's requirements to the closest proximity.
- Optimise output to run smoothly on multiple delivery platforms.
- Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Integration of user interface elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Integration of data storage and third-party library/package into the application.
- Create or integrate any such thing manually if not available on standard package list.
- Create the best fitted and scalable database schema for particular business logic.
- Should be hands-on in reading large volumes of data from the database, or over HTTP(S)/WebSockets.
- Ensure programs and applications are bug-free and run smoothly.
Skills And Qualifications :
- Familiarity with Python web stacks and In-depth knowledge of different frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.)
- Understanding different types of Object Relational Mappers.
- Ability to work on multiple API integrations, and write modular reusable code.
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Good knowledge of a server-side templating language.
- Basic understanding of front-end frameworks such as Angular, ReactJs, VueJs and technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Familiarity with object event-driven programming in Python
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.
(NOTE-we are lookking for those ho can join immediatley or within 15-20days of notice period)
Job Description:
Passionate about making an impact, have a high level of energy and resilient when met with challenges. In addition, you will possess the below:
• Owns, implements and delivers key modules, and when necessary develops quick working prototypes
• Ensures that code developed is easy to test, easy to understand, extensible
• Ensures unit tests, integration tests are written for all modules implemented
• Ensures on time, quality delivery
• Does component /module/ sub- system design with Micro services
• Good to know NoSQL database, MongoDB
• Store user identities and authenticating requests using JWT
• Experience in deploying application to the cloud with Docker, docker compose and Kubernetes
• Good exposure in handling commands, events, handlers and other design patterns
• Delve into unit- and integration-testing the distributed system
• Experience in developing mobile apps (Android and iOS)
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, CircleCI, or other)
• Supports in project estimation, planning
• Performs the role of a Specialist by ensuring the consistency and efficient integration of the separate modules of software that meets the product specification.
• Manages technical communication with partners and stakeholders
• Up-to-date with the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in cloud computing
• Strong team player
• Agile development, Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Ability to engage with multi-site teams in a multi BU environment
• Excellent abstraction and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Ability to stay focused on the target in an ambiguous situation.
• Proactive and self-driven
Key Requirements:
• 8+ years professional experience in commercial or web-scale system software development and delivery Strong analytical skills
• 5+ years Experience in building micro services using .NET core, MVC core, JavaScript, XML
• Awareness – Python, Django, PHP, Angular, CSS
• 2+ year hands-on Azure experience.
• Experience in handling messages through distributed system
• Date store - SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis etc
• In-depth hands on technology experience in the following areas:
o Strong in Object Oriented Programming concepts
o Experience in developing software using C# .NET, Cloud (Azure), SQL Server, CI/CD pipeline
o Experience in Test driven development using NUnit, mocking framework
o Database - SQL server, ORM and PostgreSQL, Redis
o Mobile application development and architecture aware
o Client/server - Networking, multithreading
o Deployment - Docker, Kubernetes
o Understanding of Cloud concepts, cloud deployments
o In depth understanding of ASP.net, MVC, IIS, security, Web API
o Working knowledge of Azure
o Exposure to Agile Scrum way of working, pair programming
o .NET Core, Web API, WPF, MVVM
o REST, JSON, JSON Schema
o Client / server, networking,
o Internet services, Windows Services, Security
o Any unit test framework (Nunit,MSTest), Mocking Framework (Moq,RhinoMock), TDD, Git , Jira
• 5+ years experience in Architecting solutions in software industry
• Experience architecting large scale web applications/products is a MUST
• Experience with technologies like .Net technologies, ASP.net Core, PHP, Angular, MySQL, Node.js, Python, Django, PostgreSQL & other new- edge technologies
• Experience with architecting, developing, and deploying on Azure Cloud platform is a must
• SaaS experience preferred in-depth working experience
• Must have experience in scalability, reliability, performance optimization, developing and deploying API based applications.
• In depth knowledge in DB Schema Design, Data Structures and trade- offs involved in writing queries
• Vast experience in integrating with external APIs and SDKs
Education
Bachelor or Masters Education in electronics, computer, software engineering or other relevant discipline.
DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds
Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogs (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.
Dukaan is currently powering over 5M e-commerce stores built by Indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework, and their design principles.
- Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.).
- Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters, and view set completely according to needs.
- Should have good experience in Class-Based Views to write the backend API.
- Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modeling them to Django models.
- Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
- Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
- Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a codebase that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
- The ability to write RAW SQL queries and further database-level coding will be a plus.
- Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
- Hands-on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
- Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
- Experience with open source will be a plus.
- Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the ins and out of the existing codebase and have a good grasp of it.
- Write clean, stable, and scalable code.
- Write unit test cases for the APIs.
- Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
- Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for business needs.








