Python Developer

Position: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Experience: 10+ Years

Budget: 1.7 LPM

Employment Type: [Contract]

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of proven backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs.
• Strong command of FastAPI and microservices architecture.
• Solid knowledge of debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Agentic Systems or ability to quickly adopt them.
• Exposure to modern CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

As a Python Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and scaling data pipelines, developing prompts for large language models (LLMs), and deploying them as efficient, scalable APIs. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure seamless integration of data solutions and LLM functionalities. This role requires expertise in Python, API design, data engineering tools, and a strong understanding of LLMs and their applications.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

About Tazapay Tazapay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce, technology, cross border trade and high growth technology businesses. The company is financially backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, RTP Global etc. We https://tazapay.com/ are a Singapore-based b2b and payments startup enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce securely. We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration towards digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. The pandemic will change that equation

Responsibilities

• 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

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

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: upto 20LPA

• Work with business analysts to estimate and design effective, scalable and maintainable solutions that meet business initiatives and objectives
• Develop and unit test software that meets business requirements and technical design
• Troubleshoot pre- and post-production implementations
• Propose new ideas when there is strong business value and stay up to date on the latest technology trends and techniques

Critical Skills & Experiences:

• At least 5+ years of experience developing in Java technologies with equivalent experience in systems analysis, OO design, OO programming and debugging skills
• At least 5 years of experience in Java Spring Boot Framework development
• 2 years of experience in any Cloud platform, preferably AWS.
• At least 3 years of web services and relational database experience (preferably Mysql)
• At least a year of Elastic search experience
• Experience developing RESTful web services (preferably micro services)
• Experience with UNIX/Linux command line and shell scripting
• Experience working in cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams
• Any level of experience with JIRA or any other issue tracking technology
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders
• Experience with Java application profiling and profiling tools
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Drive performance to accomplish team goals in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor’s degree or the above equivalent skills and years of experience

Keywords:

Experience: +5 Years

Technical skills: Java, Spring boot and Node JS  

Should have knowledge of web frameworks, such as Django, HTML and CSS and Python programming language.

Should have relevant work experience in coding and web development.
Good knowledge of Python and Django
Good knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript,
Good knowledge of MY SQL database
Knowledge of Django REST framework, API.

Education Qualification- bachelor's degree in computer science, information management systems or a related field.

Work Experience - 1 to 2 years (Required)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹15,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month