


Job Description: Python Backend Developer
Experience: 7-12 years
Job Type: Full-time
Job Overview:
Wissen Technology is looking for a highly experienced Python Backend Developer with 7-12 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in backend development using Python, with a strong focus on Django and Flask frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain robust backend services and APIs using Python, Django, and Flask.
- Design scalable and efficient database schemas, integrating with both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design functional, cohesive code.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Ensure security and data protection protocols are implemented effectively.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications to ensure a seamless user experience.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and quality assurance processes.
Required Skills:
Python: Extensive experience in backend development using Python.
Django & Flask: Proficiency in Django and Flask frameworks.
Database Management: Strong knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
API Development: Expertise in building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
Security: Understanding of security best practices and data protection measures.
Version Control: Experience with Git for collaboration and version control.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with a focus on writing clean, efficient code.
Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud services like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization.
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices.
Why Join Wissen Technology?
- Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a cutting-edge technology stack.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- A supportive environment that fosters professional growth and learning.

About Wissen Technology
About
The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015. Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for organizations in the Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains.
With offices in US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada, we offer an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.
Leveraging our multi-site operations in the USA and India and availability of world-class infrastructure, we offer a combination of on-site, off-site and offshore service models. Our technical competencies, proactive management approach, proven methodologies, committed support and the ability to quickly react to urgent needs make us a valued partner for any kind of Digital Enablement Services, Managed Services, or Business Services.
We believe that the technology and thought leadership that we command in the industry is the direct result of the kind of people we have been able to attract, to form this organization (you are one of them!).
Our workforce consists of 1000+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like MIT, Wharton, IITs, IIMs, and BITS and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.
Wissen Technology has been certified as a Great Place to Work®. The technology and thought leadership that the company commands in the industry is the direct result of the kind of people Wissen has been able to attract. Wissen is committed to providing them the best possible opportunities and careers, which extends to providing the best possible experience and value to our clients.
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The position requires an experienced and ambitious candidate who is passionate about technology and is self-driven. We have a challenging workplace where we welcome innovative ideas and offers growth opportunities and positive environment for accomplishing goals. Our purpose is to create abundance for everyone we touch.
Job Description:
- Experience on Open Source Platforms in designing/ developing Web-based applications.
- Require Strong knowledge in Python with application/package/module development, tuning, and debugging tools.
- Proficient understanding of Python Identifiers, Reserved Words, Basic Operators, Variable Types, and User defined exception handling with their usage.
- In-depth knowledge of Python Dictionary and default modules included in Python (String, DateTime, Numbers, and other required functions usage).
- Proficient understanding of Sequences and its differences (Tuples/Lists).
- File manipulation-using Python (Create, Edit, and Delete view file).
- Ability to organize code logically and with the understandable procedure that is well defined, documented, and testable.
Skills Required:
- Strong understanding of OOPS and Design Patterns (Code design skills in Python-based object-oriented programming and functional programming).
- Developing Web Applications with Python - Hands on experience using MVC frameworks like Django.
- Exposure to Code Versioning Systems such as Atlassian Bitbucket.
- In-depth Knowledge in JavaScript and jQuery.
- The candidate must display excellent written and verbal skills with demonstrated interpersonal and organizational abilities.



Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family



- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
- Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and
internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards
- Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Must have experience in cloud computing
- Operates independently with almost no oversight
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the
team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably


● Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software
● Delivering high quality and well-structured code
● Manage individual project priorities and deadlines
● Participate in enhancing tools and processes
● Participate in production observance and technical incident management
● Ability to quickly learn and adapt to keep up in a fast-paced environment
Must haves
● Strong data structure concepts
● Great problem-solving skills
● Strong experience in Python
● Experience in Microservices and Docker
● Exposure to RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases
● Working knowledge of MongoDB/DynamoDB


● You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
● You have a github profile that you want to show off.
● You love coding and look forward to taking on complex, abstract features.
● You don't care about front end, backend kinda titles. You like working anywhere in the
"Stack"

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems;
designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.
Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

Mandatory Skills :
Front end : Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Backend : Python
Framework : Django python web framework
Any experience of working with NLP, computer vision and deep learning will be additional plus point


To be the right fit, you'll need:


- 3+ years of work experience as a Python Developer.
- Sound understanding and knowledge of Python and its ecosystem libraries like pandas and numpy. Also be able to write modular code and understand the python packaging system.
- Experience on web crawling, scraping (Scrapy,BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and web application development using Django/Flask Framework.
- Experience on Data-Science; exposure to Theanos, Tensorflow, Pytorch (preferable)
- Exposure to data mining, Pyspark (preferable)


