Python Backend Developer

🚀 Hiring: Python Developer

⭐ Experience: 2+ Years

📍 Location: Mumbai

⭐ Work Mode:- 5 Days Work From Office

⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

(Only immediate joiners & candidates serving notice period)

Looking for a skilled Python Developer with experience in Django / FastAPI and MongoDB / PostgreSQL.

⭐ Must-Have Skills:-

✅ 2+ years of professional experience as a Python Developer

✅Proficient in Django or FastAPI

✅Hands-on with MongoDB & PostgreSQL

✅Strong understanding of REST APIs & Git

What You’ll Do:

• Architect & build our core backend using modern microservices patterns
• Develop intelligent AI/ML-driven systems for financial document processing at scale
• Own database design (SQL + NoSQL) for speed, reliability, and compliance
• Integrate vector search, caching layers, and pipelines to power real-time insights
• Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy at every layer of the stack
• Collaborate directly with founders to translate vision into shippable features
• Set engineering standards & culture for future hires

What You Bring:

• Core SkillsDeep expertise in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask)
• Strong experience in SQL & NoSQL database architecture
• Hands-on with vector databases and caching systems (e.g., Redis)
• Proven track record building scalable microservices
• Strong grounding in security best practices for sensitive data

Experience:

• 1+ years building production-grade backend systems
• History of owning technical decisions that impacted product direction
• Ability to solve complex, high-scale technical problems
• Bonus Points ForExperience building LLM-powered applications at scale
• Background in enterprise SaaS, or financial software
• Early-stage startup experience
• Familiarity with financial reporting/accounting concepts

Why Join Us:

• Founding team equity with significant upside
• Direct influence on product architecture & company direction
• Work with cutting-edge AI/ML tech on real-world financial data
• Backed by top-tier VC
• Join at ground zero and help shape our engineering culture

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Data Engineer with strong experience in Python programming and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join our data engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines. The role involves working with various GCP services, implementing data ingestion and transformation logic, and ensuring data quality and consistency across systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable ETL data pipelines using Python.
• Work extensively on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as:
• Dataflow for real-time and batch data processing
• Cloud Functions for lightweight serverless compute
• BigQuery for data warehousing and analytics
• Cloud Composer for orchestration of data workflows (based on Apache Airflow)
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) for managing data at scale
• IAM for access control and security
• Cloud Run for containerized applications
• Perform data ingestion from various sources and apply transformation and cleansing logic to ensure high-quality data delivery.
• Implement and enforce data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to understand data needs and deliver efficient data solutions.
• Manage version control using GitHub and participate in CI/CD pipeline deployments for data projects.
• Write complex SQL queries for data extraction and validation from relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Document pipeline designs, data flow diagrams, and operational support procedures.
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Required Skills:

• 4–8 years of hands-on experience in Python for backend or data engineering projects.
• Strong understanding and working experience with GCP cloud services (especially Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Composer, etc.).
• Solid understanding of data pipeline architecture, data integration, and transformation techniques.
• Experience in working with version control systems like GitHub and knowledge of CI/CD practices.
• Strong experience in SQL with at least one enterprise database (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.).

Job responsibility The Lead Developer contributes, to create a customer’s solution, in the building phase of the software development lifecycle. The Software Engineer is responsible for performing the detailed design of application and technical architecture components and classes in accordance to the specification provided by the Solution Architect, for coding of SW components, and for the early testing phases (component testing), and system testing support

Hands on experience in Java, Python, scripting
- Design, implement, deploy and support web-based applications and web services using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL
- Experience in Java/J2EE using web frameworks Play or Spring boot, REST API Development and ORM (JPA, Hibernate eBean etc.)
- In depth knowledge of Design patterns and Data structures
- Databases - MySQL, Oracle, SQL
- Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Caching, Distributed/Scalable Architecture
- Secure application development best practices, such as OWASP
- Document and maintain all design documents and involve in review process.
- Experienced problem solving and debugging skills.
- Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in Agile methodology is added advantage
- Knowledge of Cloud Knowledge /Azure
- Must know about Unix knowledge
- experience in Elastic search

bout the Role

We are seeking an experienced Python Data Engineer with a strong foundation in API and basic UI development. This role is essential for advancing our analytics capabilities for AI products, helping us gain deeper insights into product performance and driving data-backed improvements. If you have a background in AI/ML, familiarity with large language models (LLMs), and a solid grasp of Python libraries for AI, we’d like to connect!

Key Responsibilities

•   Develop Analytics Framework: Build a comprehensive analytics framework to evaluate and monitor AI product performance and business value.

•   Define KPIs with Stakeholders: Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish and measure KPIs that gauge AI product maturity and impact.

•   Data Analysis for Actionable Insights: Dive into complex data sets to identify patterns and provide actionable insights to support product improvements.

•   Data Collection & Processing: Lead data collection, cleaning, and processing to ensure high-quality, actionable data for analysis.

•   Clear Reporting of Findings: Present findings to stakeholders in a clear, concise manner, emphasizing actionable insights.

Required Skills

•   Technical Skills:

o   Proficiency in Python, including experience with key AI/ML libraries.

o   Basic knowledge of UI and API development.

o   Understanding of large language models (LLMs) and experience using them effectively.

•   Analytical & Communication Skills:

o   Strong problem-solving skills to address complex, ambiguous challenges.

o   Ability to translate data insights into understandable reports for non-technical stakeholders.

o   Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks to assess AI product effectiveness.

o   Experience in statistical methods to interpret data and build metrics frameworks.

o   Skilled in quantitative analysis to drive actionable insights.

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the Backend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• 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
• Ability to get stuff done!

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

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

• Set up, manage, automate and deploy AI models in development and production infrastructure.
• Orchestrate life cycle management of AI Models
• Create APIs and help business customers put results of the AI models into operations
• Develop MVP ML learning models and prototype applications applying known AI models and verify the problem/solution fit
• Validate the AI Models
• Make model performant (time and space) based on the business needs
• Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results
• Train and retrain systems when necessary
• Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis 
• Ensuring that algorithms generate accurate user recommendations/insights/outputs
• Keep abreast with the latest AI tools relevant to our business domain

• Bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field 
• A Master’s degree in data analytics, or similar will be advantageous.
• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in deploying AI models to production
• Understanding of data structures, data modeling, and software architecture
• Good knowledge of math, probability, statistics, and algorithms
• Ability to write robust code in Python/ R
• Proficiency in using query languages, such as SQL
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow and libraries such as scikit-learn
• Worked with well know machine learning models ( SVM, clustering techniques, forecasting models, Random Forest, etc.)
• Having knowledge in CI/CD for the building and hosting the solutions
• We don’t expect you to be an expert or an AI researcher, but you must be able to take existing models and best practices and adapt them to our environment.
• Adherence to compliance procedures in accordance with regulatory standards, requirements, and policies. 
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced agile environment with tight deadlines 
• A flexible, pragmatic, and collaborative team player with an innate ability to engage with data architects, analysts, and scientists.

• Working in high paced competitive stock trading environment with core web app development, scripting, data interpretation and manipulation skills
• Designing, creating and maintaining our in-house software for business requirements
• Work on innovative ideas to improve the user experience of our internal systems and applications which are used by the trading teams
• Improve on existing tools to make trade monitoring systems robust and more reliable

Ideal candidate should have:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline
• Experience on Python web app development (Preferably Django)
• Ability to work as a full stack developer
• Experience in Shell/Perl or Python scripting
• Prior experience of Linux or Unix based operating systems
• Ability to create automation scripts
• Experience/Knowledge of financial industry
• Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects
• Willingness to learn and work on new technologies
• Excellent communication skills