Python Developer

As a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, you will take ownership of backend systems and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our CTO and cross-functional teams (hardware, AI, frontend) to design scalable, fault- tolerant architectures and ensure reliable deployment pipelines.

1. What You’ll Do :

• Backend Development: Maintain and evolve our Node.js (TypeScript) and Python backend services with a focus on performance and scalability.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Manage our infrastructure on GCP and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage, Functions, AppEngine, PubSub, Cloud Tasks). 
• Database Management: Handle Firestore and other NoSQL DBs. Lead database schema design and migration strategies.
• Pipelines & Automation: Build robust real-time and batch data pipelines. Automate CI/CD and testing for backend and frontend services.
• Monitoring & Uptime: Deploy tools for observability (logging, alerts, debugging). Ensure 99.9% uptime of critical services.
• Dev Environments: Set up and manage developer and staging environments across teams.
• Quality & Security: Drive code reviews, implement backend best practices, and enforce security standards.
• Collaboration: Partner with other engineers (AI, frontend, hardware) to integrate backend capabilities seamlessly into our global system.

Must-Haves :

• 5+ years of experience in backend development and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python.
• Advanced skills in NoSQL databases (Firestore, MongoDB, DynamoDB...).
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably GCP and Firebase.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps tools, and automation.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems and performance tuning.
• Experience setting up and managing development & staging environments. 

• Proficiency in English and remote communication.

Good to have :

• Event-driven architecture experience (e.g., Pub/Sub, MQTT).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Google Monitoring).
• Previous work on large-scale SaaS products.
• Knowledge of telecommunication protocols (MQTT, WebSockets, SNMP).
• Experience with edge computing on Nvidia Jetson devices.

What We Offer :

• Competitive salary for the Indian market (depending on experience).
• Remote-first culture with async-friendly communication.
• Autonomy and responsibility from day one.
• A modern stack and a fast-moving team working on cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure.
• A mission-driven company tackling real-world environmental challenges. 

Job Description – Backend Python Developer(Mid-Level) 

📍 Location: Mumbai/Gurgaon |  Full-time

Backend Python Developer

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled Backend Python Developer to design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations that power our AI-driven automation solutions.

You will collaborate closely with senior engineers, AI/ML teams, and frontend developers to build scalable, high-performance systems. This role is ideal for professionals with solid backend experience who are eager to deepen their expertise in Python, cloud technologies, and AI-based applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend APIs, services, and system integrations using Python
• Collaborate on system design and architecture discussions with senior engineers
• Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code following best practices
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability in cloud environments
• Design and manage SQL/NoSQL databases for structured and unstructured data
• Support integration of AI/ML models into production workflows
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and debugging
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and DevOps processes

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in backend development
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL is a plus)
• Strong database knowledge: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of OOP, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to AI/ML workflows or a strong interest in learning
• Experience with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Celery
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming (asyncio, Celery, etc.)
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (PyTest, unittest)
• Understanding of API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT)

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation with growth opportunities
• Opportunity to work on AI-first automation products used globally
• Mentorship from experienced senior engineers
• Flexible work environment
• Continuous learning support in Python, Cloud, and AI/Automation technologies

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming languages they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance

• Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

About us

At Lucidity, we are a year and a half old company and we work on helping large enterprises manage their cloud storage platform. 

Our founders bring with them more than a decade of experience working with top tech Gaints in the world, building and selling large tech products from zero to one. We are seeing a lot of early traction and expanding aggresively.

We are a B2B product based startup building the next generation of storage orchestration system for cloud. We are hiring agressively across multiple roles and looking for passionate engineers to join a very young and energetic team at Lucidity.

What you'll do

Technology is at the heart of our organization. As part of the tech team you will

• Understand product requirements and brainstorm ways to address them.
• Build features from scratch and have complete ownership for it.
• Deliver efficient, reliable, scalable code with high automated test coverage.
• Contribute to team decisions in the overall architecture and practices of the company.

What you'll need

Must haves

• At least 1 year experience in a product based company.
• Experience working with distributed environments.
• Comfortable with at least one Object Oriented Programming language.
• Hands on with AWS or at least one other public cloud.

Good to have

• Experience handling highly scalable systems.
• Experience with at least one among C++, Java.
• Experience with docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Linux file systems.

Additional

• B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic and passionate people who thrive in a high growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do.