Python Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for enthusiastic Backend Developer Interns to join our team remotely for a 3-month internship. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in backend development, work on real projects, and expand your technical skills. While this is an unpaid internship, interns who successfully complete the program will receive a Completion Certificate and a Letter of Recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining backend services and APIs.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) for data storage and retrieval.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize backend performance.
• Participate in code reviews and team discussions.
• Document technical processes and contributions.

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of at least one backend language/framework (Node.js, Python/Django/Flask, Java/Spring Boot, or similar).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Knowledge of Git/GitHub for version control.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Good communication skills and eagerness to learn.

What You’ll Gain

• Real-world experience in backend development.
• Mentorship and exposure to industry practices.
• Completion Certificate at the end of the internship.
• Letter of Recommendation based on performance.
• Opportunity to strengthen your portfolio with live projects.

Internship Details

• Duration: 3 months
• Location: Remote (Work from Home)
• Stipend: Unpaid
• Perks: Completion Certificate + Letter of Recommendation

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Python & Go / Java & Node / Rust
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Backend Developers to join our Engineering team.

More on this here - https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us">https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and develop real-time, resillient and high availabilty systems
• Architect and Build Microservices
• Iterating and building experiments
• Will be working with Node.js, Go, MySQL and Redis

You are the right fit if you have:

• Strong systems, architecture and database fundamentals
• Build from scratch and be a good decision maker
• The Ownership skills and can own the problems end to end
• The Zeal and willingness to put in extra efforts to build a product which will be used by millions of users, and most importantly
• The ability to find the solution to any problem and get things done

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

We are looking for a dedicated backend developer (PHP) who loves programming and writes code that he/she is proud of.

As part of your job, you will constantly seek the latest technologies, be committed to using state-of-the-art solutions and never accept any performance on an ad-hoc basis.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent expertise).
• PHP - you should have at least 4 years experience in PHP and in OOP development. Can use PHP to supplement and extend existing product.
• PHP Framework - At least 3 years experience in one of the following frameworks: Symfony, Laravel, Yii or Zend.
• MySQL - Can perform SQL queries and build data-driven applications. Knows basic of relational database design.
• Problem Solver - Can effectively debug issues using tools like xdebug or chrome's console. Is familiar with stack overflow and other community resources.
• Version control systems - Can use Git and understand basic commands
• HTML, CSS and JS - Basic knowledge in HTML, CSS and JS, familier with one of JS frameworks is needed as well.
• Desirable Skills:
• Knowledge of APIs, such as twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
• Knowledge of NoSQL with some experience is plus.
• Knowledge of AWS, RabbitMQ, Redis, and ElasticSearch is a plus.

Position Responsibilities:
1.     Design, implementation, and deployment of applications
2.     Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
3.     Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
4.     Work extensively with cross-functional teams across.
5.     Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
6.     The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder, and operator. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast-paced environment where time to hit the market is supercritical.

Desired Candidate profile: 
1.     A Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education from Elite College or institution and work experience.
2.     4+ years of Software Development experience.
3.     Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform).
4.     Very strong software development background including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
5.     Ability to design and implement systems end to end on your own while maintaining highest coding standards.
6.     Excellent knowledge of design patterns and ability to reflect it in their code.
7.     Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers on the same.
8.     Mandatory work experience in skills sets: REST API, JDBC, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
9.     Solid Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
10.  Software development experience in Servlet, JSP, Spring, AWS, S3, SQS, building web services and highly scalable applications or Google Cloud Suite.
11.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.