
This is a fully remote opportunity
About Us:
We at Ascendeum provide Data and AdTech strategy consultation to businesses worldwide. We started our journey with private funding and has been operating profitably since 2015. We are a lean team of 50+ highly productive and smart people spread across various parts of India who have been consistently delivering intelligent solutions that enable enterprise-level websites and apps to maximize their digital advertising returns.
Job Details:
We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Engineer who holds a passion to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back- end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
Job Responsibilities:
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team
- members.
- Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- Solid experience specializing in developing and managing back-end systems for enterprise-grade applications.
- Strong command on Python and databases such as MySQL.
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming
- techniques and tools.
- Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
- Excellent project and time management skills.
- Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently or with a group.

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Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
Backend Engineer III – Senior Python Developer (LLM & AI)
Location: Gurgaon, India
Positions: 1
Experience: 6 to 9 Years
Gurgaon Hybrid
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer III / Senior Python Developer to join our AI engineering team and play a critical role in building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend platforms for LLM and AI-driven applications. You will work as a hands-on individual contributor while collaborating closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Cloud/DevOps teams to deliver innovative, production-grade AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and services using Python to support LLM and AI-based applications
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices that serve machine learning models and AI components
- Write clean, modular, efficient, and testable code following industry best practices and coding standards
- Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring high quality, security, and maintainability of the codebase
- Debug, profile, and optimize applications to improve performance, reliability, and scalability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in AI/ML pipelines and backend services
- Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate business and technical requirements into robust backend solutions
- Mentor and support junior developers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows to ensure consistent and reliable releases
- Stay up to date with emerging trends in Python, cloud-native development, and LLM/AI engineering practices and apply them to improve systems and processes
Required Skills & Experience
- 6 to 9 years of strong hands-on experience in Python development
- Solid understanding of Python software design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices
- Proven experience working on AI, Machine Learning, or LLM-based projects
- Strong experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, or similar model-serving frameworks
- Strong debugging, performance profiling, and optimization skills
- Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a strong plus
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving AI/ML environment while mentoring junior team members
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- AWS or other relevant cloud certifications are preferred but not mandatory
Why Join Us?
- Work on cutting-edge AI and LLM platforms
- Collaborate with top-tier engineering and data science teams
- Opportunity to influence system architecture and technical direction
- Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities
- 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
- Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
- Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
- Must have Linux command line experience.
- Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
- Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
- Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
- Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
- Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
- Team player
Python Developer
6-8 Years
Mumbai
N.p only immediate or who is serving LwD is 1st week of july.
- Python knowledge: object-oriented programming: inheritance, abstract classes, dataclass, dependency injection, design patterns: comand-query, repository, adapter, hexagonal architecture, swagger/Open API, flask, connexion
- Experience on AWS services: lambda, ecs, sqs, s3, dynamodb, auroradb
- Experience with following libraries boto3, behave, pytest, moto, localstack, docker
- Basic knowledge about terraform, gitlab ci
- Experience with SQL DB
Responsibilities:
- Setup and integrate various APIs
- Dealing with scripts written in different languages (PHP, Node.js, Python, PhantomJS, Ruby)
- Must be an R & D specialist
- Keep up-to-date with advanced concepts
- Adaptable to learn new technologies
- Knowledge on Linux and its commands
- Fast in debugging the code
- Should be a quick learner
- Good at communication
Requirements
- Minimum 3 Years of experience in PHP7
- 1 Year experience in Node.js/Python
- Good work experience in PHP7
- Strong knowledge in OOPS.
- Proven knowledge on REST and SOAP API integrations
- Experience in composer installations
- Strong in Javascript and Node.js concepts.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB and MySql
- Knowledge of versioning tools (SVN/GIT)
- Having knowledge on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform is an added advantage
- Having knowledge of elastic search is an added advantage
- Good to have knowledge on p threads
- 3+ years of recent hands-on Java development
- Java, Python, JavaScript programming languages
- Fluency with RESTful APIs, AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS
- Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability of data intensive application
- Understanding of database fundamentals and advanced SQL knowledge
- In-depth understanding of object oriented programming concepts and design patterns
- Ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
- Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
- Experience in Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
What puts you over the top:
- Exposure to various technologies like Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes and also some frontend technologies like React.js, Node.js or other UI frameworks.
● Experience in AdTech or Programmatic
MUST HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE IN SPRING BOOT, NODE JS, ANGULAR JS, REACT JS, JAVASCRIPT,JAVA, HTML/CSS.








