Python Backend Architect/Engineer

Job Title : Python Developer (Immediate Joiner)

Experience Required : 3+ Years

Employment Type : Full-time

Location : Gurugram, India (Onsite)

Working Days : 6 Days (5 Days WFO + 1 Day WFH)

Job Summary :

We are seeking a talented and experienced Python Developer with a strong background in Django and a proven ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, and PostgreSQL, and will play a key role in developing and maintaining robust backend systems. This is an onsite opportunity for immediate joiners.

Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Docker.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain Django-based web applications and APIs.
• Implement asynchronous task handling using RabbitMQ and Celery.
• Optimize application performance using Redis for caching and session storage.
• Manage database operations, including schema design and query optimization, using PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to deliver full-featured solutions.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code aligned with industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the application stack.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and sprint planning.
• Ensure the scalability, performance, and security of backend services.

Required Technical Skills :

• Minimum 3 Years of experience in Python development.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Django framework.
• Proficiency in RabbitMQ for message brokering.
• Practical experience with Redis for caching and session management.
• Experience using Celery for background job/task queue management.
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL (database design, indexing, and optimization).
• Understanding of RESTful API development and integration.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization.

Preferred Skills :

• Exposure to CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of Django ORM optimization techniques.
• Basic familiarity with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Soft Skills :

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced development environment.

Responsibilities:

• Help define and create Backend architecture and deployment using Python- Django-AWS in an agile environment with lots of ownership and active mentoring

• Work with the Product and Design teams to build new features to solve business problems and fill business needs

• Participate in code reviews to create robust and maintainable code

• Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life

• Interact with other stakeholders for requirement, design discussions and for adoption of new features • Communicate and coordinate with our support and professional services teams to solve customer issues

• Help scale our platform as we expand our product across various markets and verticals globally

As a young, fresh startup, we are hoping to be joined by self-starting, hardworking, passionate individuals who are committed to delivering their best, who can grow into future leaders of FactWise.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

At LambdaTest, We help developers and testers fix their applications across a combination of 2000+ browsers and Operating Systems by providing a complete cross-browser ecosystem on the cloud. As Backend Developer You will work with other Developers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out product that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

What’s the Opportunity?

• As a hands-on engineering professional, you'll stay on top of the details and will be more focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating the best user experience and 
• Support and collaborate with our service engineers in getting to the bottom of issues and come up with robust solutions.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people.
• Design distributed systems using micro services architecture would be plus.
• Implementing high performance and non-blocking systems to serve traffic heavy SaaS based product.

Requirements and qualifications-

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education with 2-4 Years of work experience.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to:Python, Golang, NodeJs 
• A solid understanding of software construction
• The ability to naturally follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. 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 consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s 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
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

Required Skills/Qualifications: 

∙         B.Tech/MCA in Comput

Required Skills/Qualifications: 

Any Backend Technology is acceptable

∙         B.Tech/MCA in Computer Science or equivalent with 1-3 years’ experience with server-side web application development.

∙         Extensive development experience using LAMP or MEAN stack, RESTful web services or Node.js, HTML and CSS.

∙         Good understanding of Data structures and Relational Databases like MySQL or NoSQL Databases like MongoDB.

∙         Experience working with services in AWS such as EC2, RDS, and ELBs and have knowledge of VPCs.

∙         Experience with server side and client side MVC frameworks, Kafka Ansilble,Jenkins.

∙         Exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), automated testing and agile development methods.

∙         Understanding of Version Management Tools like GitHub.

er Science or equivalent with 1-3 years’ experience with server-side web application development.

∙         Extensive development experience using LAMP or MEAN stack, RESTful web services or Node.js, HTML and CSS.

∙         Good understanding of Data structures and Relational Databases like MySQL or NoSQL Databases like MongoDB.

∙         Experience working with services in AWS such as EC2, RDS, and ELBs and have knowledge of VPCs.

∙         Experience with server side and client side MVC frameworks, Kafka Ansilble,Jenkins.

∙         Exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), automated testing and agile development methods.

∙         Understanding of Version Management Tools like GitHub.

We are actively seeking software development engineers who are interested in designing robust trading systems and refining programs to efficiently manage various types of financial market data that facilitate our quantitative investment research. By designing and improving the firm's internal applications, the SDE will play a key role in expanding the firm's trading capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Management & scaling up existing infrastructure for high-frequency market data capture.
• Develop a scalable and consistent data handling infrastructure for the above data to facilitate efficient backtesting of quantitative investment strategies.
• Perform R& D; to build a software platform in Python for backtesting various kind of investment strategies using the above databases.
• This will involve studying the strategy development process and performance evaluation metrics.
• Develop autopilot risk-management systems to monitor live performance of the Portfolio.
• Improve the existing algorithms to achieve better execution price and reduce the latency.

Requirements:

Our ideal candidate would have graduated with a degree in computer science from a top university with 1-3 years industry experience, along with:

• High Level of proficiency in Python and good knowledge of Matlab/C++/C#.
• Past experience in dealing with large datasets and Knowledge of database administration and network programming will be a plus.
• Well-versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities.
• A keen interest in learning about the financial markets.