Python Developer

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.
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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.
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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.

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).

• 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

Looking Data Enginner for our OWn organization-

Notice Period- 15-30 days
CTC- upto 15 lpa

Preferred Technical Expertise 

1. Expertise in Python programming.
2. Proficient in Pandas/Numpy Libraries. 
3. Experience with Django framework and API Development.
4. Proficient in writing complex queries using SQL
5. Hands on experience with Apache Airflow.
6. Experience with source code versioning tools such as GIT, Bitbucket etc.

 Good to have Skills:

1. Create and maintain Optimal Data Pipeline Architecture
2. Experienced in handling large structured data.
3. Demonstrated ability in solutions covering data ingestion, data cleansing, ETL, Data mart creation and exposing data for consumers.
4. Experience with any cloud platform (GCP is a plus)
5. 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