
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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Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient Python applications
- Lead technical projects from conception to deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features
- Write clean, testable code with appropriate documentation
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to their professional growth
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and decision-making
- Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices and processes
- Design and implement AI/ML solutions using LLMs and related technologies
- Optimize and maintain AI model deployment pipelines
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and its ecosystem (Django/Flask, FastAPI)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Solid understanding of software design patterns and principles
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and understanding of TDD practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
AI/ML Technical Skills
- Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Knowledge of working with large language models (GPT, Claude, etc.)
- Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning concepts
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar)
- Familiarity with AI model deployment and serving (BentoML, Ray Serve)
- Experience with machine learning libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
- Knowledge of AI/ML observability and monitoring tools
- Understanding of AI safety practices and responsible AI development
- Experience with embedding models and semantic search implementations
- Familiarity with AI application development patterns and best practices


Roles and Responsibilities
• Ability to create solution prototype and conduct proof of concept of new tools.
• Work in research and understanding of new tools and areas.
• Clearly articulate pros and cons of various technologies/platforms and perform
detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments to derive a
solution.
• Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Work on feature development and bug fixing.
Technical skills
• Must have knowledge of the networking in Linux, and basics of computer networks in
general.
• Must have intermediate/advanced knowledge of one programming language,
preferably Python.
• Must have experience of writing shell scripts and configuration files.
• Should be proficient in bash.
• Should have excellent Linux administration capabilities.
• Working experience of SCM. Git is preferred.
• Knowledge of build and CI-CD tools, like Jenkins, Bamboo etc is a plus.
• Understanding of Architecture of OpenStack/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Code contributed to OpenStack/Kubernetes community will be a plus.
• Data Center network troubleshooting will be a plus.
• Understanding of NFV and SDN domain will be a plus.
Soft skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self-learning, self motivating and flexibility
• Strong customer focus - Decent Networking and relationship management
• Flair for creativity and innovation
• Strategic thinking This is an individual contributor role and will need client interaction on technical side.
Must have Skill - Linux, Networking, Python, Cloud
Additional Skills-OpenStack, Kubernetes, Shell, Java, Development



- Working knowledge of XML, JAVA, REST, SOAP etc
- Basic knowledge of SQL, including the ability to author ad-hoc database queries.
- Is comfortable writing code in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Java and enjoys learning new languages and technologies.
- Has experience integrating APIs (major plus)
- Experienced integrating RESTful APIs into web applications (a plus)
- Is experienced with Github or the likes.
- Should have worked on Payment Gateway Applications.
- Has a technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics (MBA is an asset)
- Technical Product/Software certifications an asset
- Has 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar client-facing role
- Has previous experience in a traditional software engineering or Implementation role.
- Has strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Experienced with Salesforce is a plus
- Solution-driven, able to grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently, able to work alone or in a team, able to work with no supervision and under pressure
- Excels in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrates professional communication skills on technical and business-related subjects
- Experience working with payment gateways a major plus including ecommerce and Retail Experience with continuous integration and test-driven development methodologies a plus
- Excellent time management, organization, and planning skills are essential
- Flexibility to travel as required to meet with clients
- Ability to comprehend and translate complex technical issues and apply to business solutions
- Demonstrate ability to articulate complex technical terms or processes into business language
- Ability to synthesize technical information and apply to business solutions
- Able to set priorities, influence others, and manage customer and partner expectations
- Demonstrated success in customer and partner relationship management
- You are motivated, think outside of the box, and understand the purpose of process and procedures


About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Should Have experience leading a team.
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
- Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.
Opportunity
Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.


Our goal
We are reinventing the future of MLOps. Censius Observability platform enables businesses to gain greater visibility into how their AI makes decisions to understand it better. We enable explanations of predictions, continuous monitoring of drifts, and assessing fairness in the real world. (TLDR — build the best ML monitoring tool)
The culture
We believe in constantly iterating and improving our team culture, just like our product. We have found a good balance between async and sync work — default is still Notion docs over meetings, but at the same time, we recognize that as an early-stage startup brainstorming together over calls leads to results faster. If you enjoy taking ownership, moving quickly, and writing docs, you will fit right in.
The role:
Our engineering team is growing and we are looking to bring on board a senior software engineer who can help us transition to the next phase of the company. As we roll out our platform to customers, you will be pivotal in refining our system architecture, ensuring the various tech stacks play well with each other, and smoothening the DevOps process.
On the platform, we use Python (ML-related jobs), Golang (core infrastructure), and NodeJS (user-facing). The platform is 100% cloud-native and we use Envoy as a proxy (eventually will lead to service-mesh architecture).
By joining our team, you will get the exposure to working across a swath of modern technologies while building an enterprise-grade ML platform in the most promising area.
Responsibilities
- Be the bridge between engineering and product teams. Understand long-term product roadmap and architect a system design that will scale with our plans.
- Take ownership of converting product insights into detailed engineering requirements. Break these down into smaller tasks and work with the team to plan and execute sprints.
- Author high-quality, highly-performance, and unit-tested code running on a distributed environment using containers.
- Continually evaluate and improve DevOps processes for a cloud-native codebase.
- Review PRs, mentor others and proactively take initiatives to improve our team's shipping velocity.
- Leverage your industry experience to champion engineering best practices within the organization.
Qualifications
Work Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience (3+ years in a senior engineering role) preferably with some exposure in leading remote development teams in the past.
- Proven track record building large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency production systems with at least 3+ years working with customers, architecting solutions, and delivering end-to-end products.
- Fluency in writing production-grade Go or Python in a microservice architecture with containers/VMs for over 5+ years.
- 2+ years of DevOps experience (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and public cloud APIs)
- Worked with relational (SQL) as well as non-relational databases (Mongo or Couch) in a production environment.
- (Bonus: worked with big data in data lakes/warehouses).
- (Bonus: built an end-to-end ML pipeline)
Skills
- Strong documentation skills. As a remote team, we heavily rely on elaborate documentation for everything we are working on.
- Ability to motivate, mentor, and lead others (we have a flat team structure, but the team would rely upon you to make important decisions)
- Strong independent contributor as well as a team player.
- Working knowledge of ML and familiarity with concepts of MLOps
Benefits
- Competitive Salary 💸
- Work Remotely 🌎
- Health insurance 🏥
- Unlimited Time Off ⏰
- Support for continual learning (free books and online courses) 📚
- Reimbursement for streaming services (think Netflix) 🎥
- Reimbursement for gym or physical activity of your choice 🏋🏽♀️
- Flex hours 💪
- Leveling Up Opportunities 🌱
You will excel in this role if
- You have a product mindset. You understand, care about, and can relate to our customers.
- You take ownership, collaborate, and follow through to the very end.
- You love solving difficult problems, stand your ground, and get what you want from engineers.
- Resonate with our core values of innovation, curiosity, accountability, trust, fun, and social good.


- Work on a chatbot framework/architecture using an open-source tool or library
- Implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) for chatbots
- Integration of chatbots with Management Dashboards and CRMs
- Resolve complex technical design issues by analyzing the logs, debugging code, and identifying technical issues/challenges/bugs in the process
- Deploy applications using CI/CD tools
- Designing and building highly scalable AI and ML solutions
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment.
- Experience with bot multi-lingual utilization (preferred)
- Experience with bot human escalation
- Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Come up with new approaches and ideas to improve the current performance of Chatbots across multiple domains and build a highly personalized user experience.
QUALIFICATIONS : B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
SKILLS REQUIRED :
- Minimum 3+ years- of experience in Chatbot Development using the Rasa open-source framework.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying chatbots.
- Experience in Conversational AI platforms for enterprises using ML and Deep Learning.
- Experience with both text to speech and vice versa transformation incorporation.
- Should have a good understanding of various Chatbot frameworks/platforms/libraries.
- Build and evolve/train the NLP platform from natural language text data being gathered from users on a daily basis.
- Code using primarily Python.
- Experience with bots for platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.
- Knowledge of digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.
- Experience in applying different NLP techniques to problems such as text. classification, text summarization, question & answering, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and conversational bots design potentially with both traditional & Deep Learning
- Techniques - NLP Skills/Tools: NLP, HMM, MEMM, P/LSA, CRF, LDA, Semantic Hashing, Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, spaCy, Nltk, Gensim, Core NLP, NLU, NLG, etc.
- Should be familiar with these terms: Tokenization, N-Grams, Stemmers, lemmatization, Part of speech tagging, entity resolution, ontology, lexicology, phonetics, intents, entities, and context.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL
- Experience with working on public cloud services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Integration with Chat/Social software like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, SMS.
- Integration with Enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, etc.
MUST HAVE :
- Strong foundation in the python programming language.
- Experience with various chatbot frameworks especially Rasa and Dialogflow.
- Strong understanding of other AI tools and applications like TensorFlow, Spacy, and Google Cloud ML is a BIG plus.
- Experience with RESTful services.
- Good understanding of HTTPS and Enterprise security.


● You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
● You have a github profile that you want to show off.
● You love coding and look forward to taking on complex, abstract features.
● You don't care about front end, backend kinda titles. You like working anywhere in the
"Stack"



- Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
- At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
- A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
- Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
- Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
- Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
- An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
- Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
- The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
- A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of


Title: Senior Python Developer
Location:- Ahmedabad (Currently work from home)
Salary Range: upto 7.5lpa
Experience Range: 3+ years
Qualification: B.Sc. / B.Tech (CS / IT), MCA, BCA
Responsibility:
- You will work on large data sets
- You will provide data visualization for the platform
- Writes and executes complete testing plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned portion of application; identifies and debugs, and creates solutions for issues with code and integration into application architecture.
- Designs enhancements, updates, and programming changes for portions and subsystems of end-user applications software running on local, networked, and Internet- based platforms.
- Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding software applications design status, project progress, and issue resolution.
Functional Knowledge:
- Expert in Python, Machine learning with knowledge of at least one Python web framework Flask, Django etc.
- Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic
- Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib
- Knowledge of mongo-db
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git
- Good understanding of Linux OS
- Knowledge on nltk, scikit, numpy would be an advantage
Compensation and Benefits:
- Excellent Salary Structure
- Employee friendly corporate work culture
- Exposure to interact with US people
- Flexible timings with Saturday and Sunday Off
- Lucrative Rewards and Recognition

Navia Life Care is looking for a young, energetic, and passionate backend developer for a full-time role, and available to join immediately.
They will be expected to fulfill the following responsibilities :
Backend developer responsibilities :
- Design and build system backend on Python, Django and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Machine Learning, Data Analytics will be a Plus
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
- Handle software updates, patches, and bug fixes.
- Develop applications for time-sensitive projects while considering business/system requirements.
- Continually learn about new programming languages, operating system updates, and other information that will affect the functions of applications in development.
- Integrate with our front-end and mobile applications
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and have the chance to contribute innovative and original ideas to our technology, algorithms and product
Requirements :
- Minimum 1 to 5 years working experience in Python, DJango, and other related technologies
- Have published one or more Android apps on the Google Play store
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs, WebRTC etc.
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Excellent ability to develop and understand algorithms.
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing and funded healthcare startup, and direct reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.
- We provide a flexible and innovation-driven work environment, with a 5-day working week, and competitive compensation packages.

