Python Developer

Backend Developer

About the Role:

We’re looking for a skilled Backend Developer (2–6 years of experience) who can design and build scalable backend systems, ensure high-performance APIs, and contribute to the technology powering a fast-growing jewelry platform. You’ll work closely with product and frontend teams to deliver robust, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Write clean, secure, and well-documented backend code.
• Work with relational databases, ensuring optimized queries and data integrity.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver end-to-end features.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems for performance and reliability.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technology choices as the platform scales.

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of professional experience as a Backend Developer.
• Strong proficiency in Python with frameworks like Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, schema design, and query optimization.
• Experience building and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of version control (Git).
• Familiarity with Docker.
• Understanding of microservices architecture (good to have).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (good to have).
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills.
• Experience working in e-commerce or marketplace environments.

What’s in It for You:

• High ownership role in a fast-paced environment.
• Opportunity to work closely with the founding team and passionate professionals.
• Competitive salary with fast career growth and appraisals.
• Dynamic, collaborative, and politics-free work culture.
• Health insurance coverage.

Additional Details:

• Early-stage startup environment where meaningful achievements require dedication and passion.
• 6-day work week.
• Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore.

Kindly do not apply if you have less than 4 Yrs of Experience in Python

Position(6 Months Contract in Gurugram, India) :

Sr. Software Engineer

Experience:

4+ years of relevant exp

Location:

Gurugram, India

(Note: FREE accommodation can be given in Gurgaon, India for the 6 months & 'work from home' is not allowed)

About Company:

The company for which you will be working is an online insurance provider that operates a B2C platform as well as a B2B2C platform. They are working to revolutionize the way insurance is bought in India by not only offering an online platform but also providing every customer a touchpoint with its partners. The company has been a platform for Motor, Health, Travel, & Life Insurance.

Key Competencies:

• A strong technical solutioning sense.
• Excellent experience in writing code using the following technologies: Python and Django.
• Can write elegant and performant SQL queries.
• Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design skills.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and web technologies in general.
• Very good understanding of any RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
• A willingness to learn and choose new technologies with a strong justification for the choices made.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Help develop best practices for future development.
• Thinks and implements in the right way instead of cutting corners.
• Conceptualize, Design, and Develop new features in the product.
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications, test & debug programs
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.
• Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.
• Optimizing the performance of the components and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends
• Doing effective peer reviews where your peers learn from you every time.
• Be a great team player

If interested, please share your CV with kuldeep[dot]pandey[@]benchkart[dot]com

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language