Python Backend Engineer

Backend Engineering Intern (Infrastructure Software) – Remote

Position Type: Internship (Full-Time or Part-Time)

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 weeks

Compensation: Unpaid (***3000 INR is just a placeholder***)

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated Backend Developer Intern to join our engineering team and contribute to building scalable, efficient, and secure backend services. This internship offers hands-on experience in API development, database management, and backend architecture, with guidance from experienced developers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features that power our applications and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and integrations.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to support application functionality and data flow.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Support database design, optimization, and query performance improvements.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Assist with unit testing, integration testing, and ensuring system reliability.
• Work with cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy and manage backend systems.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with one or more backend languages/frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Python/Django, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Basic knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with cloud services (AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, etc.).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic understanding of authentication and authorization (OAuth, JWT).
• Interest in backend performance optimization and scalability.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience building backend systems for real-world applications.
• Exposure to industry-standard tools, workflows, and coding practices.
• Mentorship from experienced backend engineers.
• Opportunity to contribute to live projects impacting end users.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services

using Python.

● Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.

● Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

capable of handling high-scale workloads.

● Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based

services, where required.

● Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.

● Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and

production issue resolution.

● Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD,

and production readiness.

● Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other

cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

● Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, contributing to overall team growth

and engineering excellence.

● Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements

across backend systems.

● Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable,

production-grade solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend

development.

● Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend

applications.

● Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices

architectures.

● Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and

high-availability architectures.

● Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.

● Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive

applications.

● Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and

production operations.

● Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean

architecture.

● Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.

● Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

● Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.

Role: Core infrastructure for two global applications.

Key responsibilities:

Heavy Data Lifting: Designing and maintaining complex MongoDB aggregation pipelines and executing high-volume bulk updates.

Systems Connectivity: Managing the lifecycle of Bridges, WebSockets, and REST APIs for global traffic.

Global Reliability: Troubleshooting performance regressions, managing SSL/TLS certificates, and optimizing AWS S3/EC2 resources.

Core Logic: Implementing server-side push notifications, custom payment flows, and background Cron orchestration.

Requirements (Must Have)

Production Experience: Proven experience managing backend services for live, high-traffic applications. (Must have)

Note: Learning projects, bootcamps, and online courses will not be considered.

Python Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in backend Python development. (Must have)

MongoDB Expertise: Deep knowledge of Aggregations and Bulk operations. (Must have)

AWS Proficiency: Direct experience with S3 and EC2 in a production setting. (Must have)

Infrastructure Logic: Ability to manage SSL/Encryption and optimize resource allocation (Cron vs. API). (Must have)

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate AI Engineer Intern (B.Tech, M.Tech / M.S. or equivalent) with strong foundations in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning to join our R&D team.

You will help us build and train realistic face-swap and deepfake video models, powering the next generation of AI-driven video synthesis technology.

This is a remote, individual-contributor role offering exposure to cutting-edge AI model development in a startup-like environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Research, implement, and fine-tune face-swap / deepfake architectures (e.g., FaceSwap, SimSwap, DeepFaceLab, LatentSync, Wav2Lip).
• Train and optimize models for realistic facial reenactment and temporal consistency.
• Work with GANs, VAEs, and diffusion models for video synthesis.
• Handle dataset creation, cleaning, and augmentation for face-video tasks.
• Collaborate with the AI core team to deploy trained models in production environments.
• Maintain clean, modular, and reproducible pipelines using Git and experiment-tracking tools.

Required Qualifications

• B.Tech, M.Tech / M.S. (or equivalent) in AI / ML / Computer Vision / Deep Learning.
• Certifications in AI or Deep Learning (DeepLearning.AI, NVIDIA DLI, Coursera, etc.).
• Proficiency in PyTorch or TensorFlow, OpenCV, FFmpeg.
• Understanding of CNNs, Autoencoders, GANs, Diffusion Models.
• Familiarity with datasets like CelebA, VoxCeleb, FFHQ, DFDC, etc.
• Good grasp of data preprocessing, model evaluation, and performance tuning.

Preferred Skills

• Prior hands-on experience with face-swap or lip-sync frameworks.
• Exposure to 3D morphable models, NeRF, motion transfer, or facial landmark tracking.
• Knowledge of multi-GPU training and model optimization.
• Familiarity with Rust / Python backend integration for inference pipelines.

What We Offer

• Work directly on production-grade AI video synthesis systems.
• Remote-first, flexible working hours.
• Mentorship from senior AI researchers and engineers.
• Opportunity to transition into a full-time role upon outstanding performance.

Location: Remote | Stipend: ₹10,000/month | Duration: 3–6 months

Level of skills and experience:

5 years of hands-on experience in using Python, Spark,Sql.

Experienced in AWS Cloud usage and management.

Experience with Databricks (Lakehouse, ML, Unity Catalog, MLflow).

Experience using various ML models and frameworks such as XGBoost, Lightgbm, Torch.

Experience with orchestrators such as Airflow and Kubeflow.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Fundamental understanding of Parquet, Delta Lake and other data file formats.

Proficiency on an IaC tool such as Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation.

Strong written and verbal English communication skill and proficient in communication with non-technical stakeholderst

• At least one year experience with PHP or NodeJS.
• Experience with at least one Relational database like MongoDB, MySQL or NoSQL
• Experience with multiple PHP frameworks will be plus(e.g Wordpress, Laravel, Codeigniter,Symfony, cakePHP)
• Proficiency with multiple PHP Frameworks.
• Proficiency designing and building APIs.
• Comfortable in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction coupled with team collaboration and open communication
• Thorough knowledge of Ajax, Javascript, HTML,CSS and other web technologies XHTML and HTML5 coding is desirable.
• Experience in both Linux and Windows environment development. Understanding of RESTful web services.
• Work in a fast-paced, creative atmosphere to develop new ideas that adapt to evolving user needs
• Experience using Git / GitHub. Excellent communication skills      

Job Summary: 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior .NET Engineer with extensive database design experience to join our team. As a Senior .NET Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex software applications using the .NET framework. You will also be responsible for designing and implementing complex database solutions using the EF Core framework that support these applications. 

 Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Design, develop, and maintain software applications using the .NET framework and database solutions using Entity Framework Core 
• Create and maintain data models and schema designs using best practices and industry standards  
• Develop and implement database security measures to protect sensitive data  
• Optimize database performance and ensure data integrity  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features  
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets specifications  
• Troubleshoot and debug software issues as needed  
• Keep up to date with emerging trends and technologies in software development and database design  
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers  

Personal Qualities, Knowledge, Experience and Skills Required: 

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field 
• At least 5 years of experience in software development using the .NET framework and database design and development using Entity Framework Core  
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts, design patterns and microservice architecture.  
• Experience with database design, including data modelling and schema design  
• Experience with MySQL Server or other relational database management systems  
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies  
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills  
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team  
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills