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Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Lead to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend solutions for our multi-tenant SaaS products. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures, with a proven track record in handling production issues at scale. You will collaborate closely with the AI Lead and Frontend Lead to ensure seamless integration of backend services, AI/ML pipelines, and front-end functionalities, thereby
delivering a robust, secure, and feature-rich experience to our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
1. System Architecture & Design
- Define and implement the overall backend architecture for multi-tenant SaaS applications, ensuring scalability, high availability, security, and compliance.
- Design microservices and RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Websockets in alignment with front-end and AI requirements.
- Establish design patterns and best practices for code modularity, performance optimization, and scalability.
2. Scalability & Performance
- Identify performance bottlenecks and oversee optimization strategies (caching, load balancing, message queues, etc.).
- Implement and maintain monitoring/observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack) to ensure real-time system health insights and rapid incident response.
- Establish performance baselines, conduct stress tests, and implement disaster recovery strategies.
3. Production Stability & Issue Resolution
- Proactively monitor production environments, anticipating potential failures and bottlenecks.
- Triage, diagnose, and resolve production incidents with minimal downtime, using robust logging, tracing, and on-call rotation strategies.
- Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems for production incidents, implementing preventative measures.
4. Collaboration & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Work closely with the AI team to integrate MLOps pipelines, ensuring smooth data flow and secure model deployment.
- Collaborate with the Frontend team to provide well-defined API contracts, enabling efficient UI/UX development.
- Partner with DevOps to define CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) practices.
5. Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Lead and mentor a team of backend developers, setting clear goals and providing guidance on best practices.
- Perform code reviews to ensure high code quality, maintainability, and adherence to design standards.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, encouraging the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies.
6. Security & Compliance
- Implement secure coding practices and follow industry standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
- Work with compliance teams to ensure data privacy and regulatory requirements (HIPAA) are met.
- Oversee authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and data encryption at rest and in transit(Encryption, SSL/TLS).
7. Documentation
- Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, APIs, database schemas, and operational runbooks.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions and handovers to ensure smooth onboarding of new team members.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science,engineering, or a related field.
Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development, with 3+ years in a technical lead or architect role.
- Demonstrated history of leading and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments.
Technical Expertise:
- Languages & Frameworks: Proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python) and associated frameworks (Django/FastAPI, etc.).
- Database Systems: Strong knowledge of both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases, including data modeling and query optimization.
- Microservices & Architecture: Hands-on experience with microservices,containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh architectures.
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud providers like AWS and Azure for deployment, scaling, and monitoring.
- CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows,infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing.
- Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki for real-time monitoring and log analysis.
Soft Skills:
- Leadership: Ability to lead teams, manage conflict, and drive a vision for the backend architecture.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with cross-functional teams (AI, Frontend, QA, Product).
- Problem-Solving: Analytical mindset for troubleshooting complex issues in high- pressure environments.
- Collaboration: Demonstrated capability to work seamlessly across multiple teams and stakeholders.

A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments
and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment.
Overall Competencies:
1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.
2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).
3. Team Management.
Leadership Competency:
- Managing & mentoring a team.
- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.
- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).
- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.
Tech Competency:
- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.
- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.
- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).
- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.
- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).
- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).
- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.
- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).
- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.
- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.
- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.
- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.
- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing
- Understands REST principles and Microservices
- Understands version control & branching strategies
- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks
Education: Bachelors in Computer Science|



- Be proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
- Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
- Maintain, expand, and scale our website
- Remain knowledgeable of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
- Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent
- Bachelor of Engineering/Technology in computer science, software engineering, programming, or equivalent
- Proficiency with languages such as Python, Golang, and Javascript (Node.js, Vue.js)
- Proficiency with MongoDB and MySQL
- Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience with the design and implementation of APIs
- Understanding of code versioning and management with Git
- Understanding of code deployment tools such as Jenkins, Capistrano, and ElectricFlow
- Track record of successfully managing multiple company or customer websites
- Excellent time-management and communication skills


and help us create dynamic software applications for our clients. In this role, you will be
responsible for writing and testing scalable code, developing back-end components,
and integrating user-facing elements in collaboration with front-end developers. You
should possess in-depth knowledge of object-relational mapping, experience with
server-side logic, and above-average knowledge of Python programming.
Responsibilities:
· Coordinating with development teams to determine application requirements.
· Writing error-free, scalable code using Python programming language.
· Testing and debugging applications.
· Coordinating with front-end developers.
· Reprogramming existing packages to improve functionality.
· Priorities bug-fixes, features. Plan and coordinate QA/Prod release
· Bringing and establishing industry standard practices
Qualification and Experience
o master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
o 5+ years of experience as IT Developer
o 3+ years of Python development experience
o 1+ years’ experience of automation experience in any python packages
o Hands-on experience on any python automation libraries.
o Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required
o Ability to up-skills team members and delegate the works
Budget : Constraint( From current max 30% hike)
Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days


We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection strategies like circuit breaker, rate limiting.
- Integration of data storage solutions like OLTP(RDS, Postgres), OLAP(Redshift) and Cache(redis, memcache) servers with applications.
- End to end responsibility from development to production.
- Ability to work in odd hours in-case of emergencies.
- Well aware of server-less, containers and microservices technologies(like Lambda, Fargate, ECS, EKS).
Requirements
- Experience 1.5+ yrs in the Software Industry.
- Mastery in Python with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask) with amazing debugging skills.
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) and caching libraries
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Jquery, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Able to create extendible database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or SVN
- Make sure to mention other frameworks, libraries, or any other technology related to your development stack
Benefits




Looking Data Enginner for our OWn organization-
Notice Period- 15-30 days
CTC- upto 15 lpa
Preferred Technical Expertise
- Expertise in Python programming.
- Proficient in Pandas/Numpy Libraries.
- Experience with Django framework and API Development.
- Proficient in writing complex queries using SQL
- Hands on experience with Apache Airflow.
- Experience with source code versioning tools such as GIT, Bitbucket etc.
Good to have Skills:
- Create and maintain Optimal Data Pipeline Architecture
- Experienced in handling large structured data.
- Demonstrated ability in solutions covering data ingestion, data cleansing, ETL, Data mart creation and exposing data for consumers.
- Experience with any cloud platform (GCP is a plus)
- Experience with JQuery, HTML, Javascript, CSS is a plus.

Roles and responsibilities
- Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
- Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
- Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
- Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
- Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
- Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
- Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
- Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues
- 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
- Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
- Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
- Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
- Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
- Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
- Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
- Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Familiarity with event-driven programming
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
- Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
- Experience in working with docker is a plus
- Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
- Strong communication skills — both written and verbal



