
Job Description – Backend Python Developer(Mid-Level)
📍 Location: Mumbai/Gurgaon | Full-time
Backend Python Developer
Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled Backend Python Developer to design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations that power our AI-driven automation solutions.
You will collaborate closely with senior engineers, AI/ML teams, and frontend developers to build scalable, high-performance systems. This role is ideal for professionals with solid backend experience who are eager to deepen their expertise in Python, cloud technologies, and AI-based applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend APIs, services, and system integrations using Python
- Collaborate on system design and architecture discussions with senior engineers
- Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code following best practices
- Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability in cloud environments
- Design and manage SQL/NoSQL databases for structured and unstructured data
- Support integration of AI/ML models into production workflows
- Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and debugging
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and DevOps processes
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in backend development
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL is a plus)
- Strong database knowledge: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of OOP, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
Preferred Skills
- Exposure to AI/ML workflows or a strong interest in learning
- Experience with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Celery
- Knowledge of asynchronous programming (asyncio, Celery, etc.)
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (PyTest, unittest)
- Understanding of API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT)
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation with growth opportunities
- Opportunity to work on AI-first automation products used globally
- Mentorship from experienced senior engineers
- Flexible work environment
- Continuous learning support in Python, Cloud, and AI/Automation technologies

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We are hiring!!
JOB TITLE: Back-end Developer
EXPERIENCE: 3 - 7 years
LOCATION: Mumbai (Borivali East)
TIMINGS: Indian Shift Timings
TYPE OF WORKING: Work from office
NOTICE PERIOD: 1 month
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Must have a clear understanding of Database
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Requirements
- Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
- Experience in Node.js language
- Familiar with building REST API
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
- Working knowledge of CMS framework
- Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
- You will design and develop large scale distributed services.
- You will analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
- You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership.
- You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
- You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
- You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight.
- You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
- You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.
- You have 2+ years of experience in product software development.
- You have designed and scaled up the system.
- You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python.
- You understand the business impact of your decisions.
As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.
Requirements:
- Exp: 3 - 8 years.
- 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
- The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
- Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
- Excellence in technical communication.
- Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
- Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
- Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
- Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
- The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
- He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
- He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
- Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies
Mentoring should come naturally to you, as well as finding the right balance towards process and documentation.
Highlights:
1) You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a product centric and open-source driven environment. The role requires a good knowledge of Algorithmic Design and Architecture, Data structures, OOPS Concepts, server less architectures and complex problem solving skills.
2) You will help set a very high bar on code quality.
3) You will take ownership of product features from conception to implementation, testing deployment and support.
4) A lot of freedom on when and where you work from - just get stuff done.
5) You will open source as much as possible, and blog about cool things that you learnt and built.
6) You will help define who we become as a company.
7) You will get stock options in line with silicon valley standards.
Caveats:
1) We have a strict no-divas rule. There are a lot of smart engineers on the team but no one with an attitude / superiority complex.
2) If you think writing tests for your code, writing docs, doing customer support etc are not your cup of tea, this isn't the right role for you.
3) Similarly if you're viewing this just as a 20-40% increment opportunity over your current compensation, this isn't the right role or company for you.
This role can be the growth opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who has been operating as a backend lead and wants to grow into a full stack
Check out the links below if you'd like to learn more about us. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
1) Why ShoppinPal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7DgtwA0ws
2) Our hiring philosophy and process http://techstory.in/building-startup-team/










