
Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development
- Python
- Flask
Requirements:
- Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
- Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
- Should have work experience on following stacks/libraries: Flask
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

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We are looking for a Python Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs. The role involves working with modern Python frameworks, databases (SQL and NoSQL), and building well-tested, production-grade systems.
You will collaborate closely with frontend developers, AI/ML engineers, and system architects to deliver reliable and high-performance backend solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs using FastAPI
- Design efficient data models and queries using MongoDB and SQL databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
- Ensure high performance, security, and scalability of backend systems
- Write unit tests, integration tests, and API tests to ensure code reliability
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues
- Follow clean code practices, documentation, and version control workflows
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with FastAPI
- Experience with MongoDB (schema design, indexing, aggregation)
- Solid understanding of SQL databases and relational data modelling
- Experience writing and maintaining automated tests
- Unit testing (e.g., pytest)
- API testing
- Understanding of REST API design principles
- Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
Good to Have
- Experience with async programming in Python (async/await)
- Knowledge of ORMs/ODMs (SQLAlchemy, Tortoise, Motor, etc.)
- Basic understanding of authentication & authorisation (JWT, OAuth)
- Exposure to Docker / containerised environments
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
What We Value
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to write testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
- Ownership mindset and willingness to learn
- Teamwork
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on real-world, production systems
- Technically challenging problems and ownership of components
- Collaborative engineering culture
Position: Lead Python Developer
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem. Position Summary We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python, and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.
Job Responsibility
● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.
● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.
● Work with relational and non-relational
databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.
● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.
● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.
● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.
● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.
● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.
● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.
● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.
Job Requirements
● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.
● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).
● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)
● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows
● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.
● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).
● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).
● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and Elastic Search.
● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.
● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).
● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.
● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.
Job Exposure:
● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources
● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications ● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement
● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
Technical Skills Desired:
- Must have experience in either of JavaScript frameworks: Angular
- Must have experience in either of backend software development [J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring core, JPA]
- Must have experience in designing/implementing Hibernate/ORM, Restful web services, Micro Services using Java
- Knowledge with relational/ NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Knowledge with versioning (Git or SVN) /build tools (Maven/Ant/Gradle/Junit), Unit testing & code coverage tools is desired
- Knowledge of App / Web servers (NGINX / Tomcat / Jboss Wildfly)
- Understands the process of new application development and has the ability to apply these concepts with minimal mentoring and supervision.
- Advanced knowledge experience using any of IDE (e.g., Eclipse, SonarQube, STS, VS Code)
- Knowledge on Cloud platform, technologies & deployments is an added advantage
- Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and
- Must have experience with Agile tools
Functional Skills Desired:
- Good knowledge in product development domains
- Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain preferred
- Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of
- Complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities contributing to team meetings;
- Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
- Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
- Understanding and implementation of security and data
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications and standards and best industry
- Usage of Process tools – JIRA, TFS, HP QC or any other agile tools, also knowledge of CMM Level 3 development process.
- Self-motivated & working independently with minimal
- Maintain code integrity and
- Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
- Follow the coding standards for java and angular
Technical Skills Good to Have:
- Usage of troubleshooting tools like J Profiler, J Meter or application performance tuning
- Exposure to Non-web-based developments, for both mobile and
- Development experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization etc in AWS or other cloud platforms
- Willing to take up proof of concepts and showcase the technical capability
- Usage of design tools Visio or draw io
- Usage of CI/CD pipeline
- Developing chatbots and voice assistants on various platforms for diverse business use-cases
- Work on a chatbot framework/architecture using an open-source tool or library
- Implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) for chatbots
- Integration of chatbots with Management Dashboards and CRMs
- Resolve complex technical design issues by analyzing the logs, debugging code, and identifying technical issues/challenges/bugs in the process
- Deploy applications using CI/CD tools
- Designing and building highly scalable AI and ML solutions
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment.
- Experience with bot multi-lingual utilization (preferred)
- Experience with bot human escalation
- Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Come up with new approaches and ideas to improve the current performance of Chatbots across multiple domains and build a highly personalized user experience.
QUALIFICATIONS : B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
SKILLS REQUIRED :
- Minimum 3+ years- of experience in Chatbot Development using the Rasa open-source framework.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying chatbots.
- Experience in Conversational AI platforms for enterprises using ML and Deep Learning.
- Experience with both text to speech and vice versa transformation incorporation.
- Should have a good understanding of various Chatbot frameworks/platforms/libraries.
- Build and evolve/train the NLP platform from natural language text data being gathered from users on a daily basis.
- Code using primarily Python.
- Experience with bots for platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.
- Knowledge of digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.
- Experience in applying different NLP techniques to problems such as text. classification, text summarization, question & answering, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and conversational bots design potentially with both traditional & Deep Learning
- Techniques - NLP Skills/Tools: NLP, HMM, MEMM, P/LSA, CRF, LDA, Semantic Hashing, Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, spaCy, Nltk, Gensim, Core NLP, NLU, NLG, etc.
- Should be familiar with these terms: Tokenization, N-Grams, Stemmers, lemmatization, Part of speech tagging, entity resolution, ontology, lexicology, phonetics, intents, entities, and context.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL
- Experience with working on public cloud services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Integration with Chat/Social software like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, SMS.
- Integration with Enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, etc.
MUST HAVE :
- Strong foundation in the python programming language.
- Experience with various chatbot frameworks especially Rasa and Dialogflow.
- Strong understanding of other AI tools and applications like TensorFlow, Spacy, and Google Cloud ML is a BIG plus.
- Experience with RESTful services.
- Good understanding of HTTPS and Enterprise security.

Basic Qualifications
Candidates for this role must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
- Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
- Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
- Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
- Experience developing in a Linux environment
- Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
- Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications
Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.
Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.
Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.
Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.
Job Description
- Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
- Mentor junior developers technically.
- Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
- Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.
Eligibility
- 4-8 years of product company experience
- OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
- Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
- Prior experience building REST APIs
- Advanced understanding of AWS stack
- Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.
Perks:
- Healthy catered meals at office
- You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
- Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle










