Python Developer

Role & Responsibilities

Take end-to-end ownership of critical backend services — from architecture and development to deployment and scale.

Design systems for performance, reliability, and observability. Identify bottlenecks and eliminate them proactively.

Collaborate with product and design to deeply understand user pain points and build the right solutions.

Work independently and own complex modules with minimal oversight.

Champion clean, maintainable code and help set a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.

Stay up-to-date with new tools, technologies, and backend trends — and bring the best ideas into our stack.

Ideal Candidate

2+ years of backend development experience, ideally with Kotlin and Spring Boot (or willingness to ramp up quickly).

You’ve worked in fast-moving teams and thrive when given room to figure things out.

You take initiative and can drive complex modules to completion without needing constant guidance.

Strong with both low-level and high-level design; you know how to build scalable, reliable RESTful APIs.

Proficient with relational databases and aware of common performance pitfalls.

Confident with debugging and optimizing — memory leaks, latency issues, and other hard-to-find problems don’t scare you.

You write clean, testable code and know how to leave systems better than you found them.

You bring a product mindset — caring not just about what’s built, but why and how it delivers value to users.

Hiring For SDE II - Python (Remote)

The Impact you will create:

• Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute

• Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients

• Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds

• Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data

• Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability

• Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed

• You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.

• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.

• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.

• Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

Primary Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of product development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance

• Translating high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks

• Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of architecture

• Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting systems for existing and new infrastructure

• Documenting API's and architecture design

• Mentor and guide juniors on their path to become solid developers

   

What we look for?

• 4+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles

• Solid knowledge of Python, SQL, NoSQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment

• End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products

• Ability to challenge and redefine existing architecture to create robust, scalable and reliable products

• Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, queue based systems, distributed databases and streaming services

• Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as kOps, Kubernetes and Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and autoscaling

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the Backend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance 
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns. 
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

• Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
• Should have experience in cloud computing
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms

• Experience of using Python/ Django frameworks in building back end for Full Stack Applications
• Hands on experience on Web frameworks, Restful APIs and SOAP
• Strong command on SQL (or relevant query language or ORM queries)
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as React Native, React.js, Angular.js or Javascript