Python Developer

*Job description:*

*Company:* Innovative Fintech Start-up

*Location:* On-site in Gurgaon, India

*Job Type:* Full-Time

*Pay:* ₹100,000.00 - ₹150,000.00 per month

*Experience Level:* Senior (7+ years required)

*About Us*

We are a dynamic Fintech company revolutionizing the financial services landscape through cutting-edge technology. We're building innovative solutions to empower users in trading, market analysis, and financial compliance. As we expand, we're seeking a visionary Senior Developer to pioneer and lead our brand-new tech team from the ground up. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our technology stack and drive mission-critical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

*Role Overview*

As the Senior Developer and founding Tech Team Lead, you will architect, develop, and scale our core systems while assembling and mentoring a high-performing team. You'll work on generative AI-driven applications, integrate with financial APIs, and ensure robust, secure platforms for trading and market data. This role demands hands-on coding expertise combined with strategic leadership to deliver under tight deadlines and high-stakes conditions.

*Key Responsibilities*

Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend systems using Python as the primary language.

Lead the creation of a new tech team: recruit, mentor, and guide junior developers to foster a collaborative, innovative culture.

Integrate generative AI technologies (e.g., Claude from Anthropic, OpenAI models) to enhance features like intelligent coding assistants, predictive analytics, and automated workflows.

Solve complex problems in real-time, optimizing for performance in mission-critical financial systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align tech strategies with business goals, including relocation planning to Dubai.

Ensure code quality, security, and compliance in all developments.

Thrive in a high-pressure environment, managing priorities independently while driving projects to completion.

*Required Qualifications:*

7+ years of software development experience; 5+ years in Python.

Proven hands-on experience with OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude) APIs in production systems.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations.

Experience leading projects, mentoring developers, or building teams.

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience with financial markets, trading systems, or market data platforms.

Familiarity with Meta Trader integrations.

Cloud experience, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Knowledge of fintech compliance and trade reporting standards.

*What We Offer:*

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunity to build and lead a team in a high-growth Fintech space.

A collaborative, innovative work culture with room for professional growth.

*Job Types:* Full-time, Permanent

*Work Location:* In person

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).

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

About TechWeirdo:

Techweirdo delivers secure enterprise solutions from SaaS to On-Premise, anywhere, from Application to AI. We offer consultation, services and products to holistically address the digital transformation goals of the enterprises. 

Skills/ Role Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience of Django REST framework
• Experience in working in a dockerized environment
• Implementation knowledge of scalable microservices architecture
• Experience in using celery
• Domain-driven design principles
• Strong SQL skills
• Ability to deploy a python backend on production in a dockerized environment with Nginx and Gunicorn
• Experience in integrating ML models in Django or Flask is a plus
• Experience with AWS services like S3, API gateway, SES, SQS, SNS, Aurora, Dynamo is plus
• Knowledge of lambda and cloudformation are plus
• Knowledge of React is plus

Working with TechWeirdo be like:

• Surrounded by curious learners: With a Growth Mindset as our core strength, we created a learning environment with curious tech learners.
• New challenges every day: There is no ordinary day at TechWeirdo, if you like solving problems, then this is the right place for you.
• Zero micro-management, limited supervision: We encourage our team to take on challenging tasks and solve complex problems by taking ownership of their tasks. We trust our team to take calculated risks.
• Great networking: You will be connected with c-suite executives of top organizations while working with our winning team.
• Building technology how you want, when you want: We welcome people who see things differently as they are the one who has ability to change the world.
• Being heard in every meeting: At TechWeirdo, suggestions are encouraged, initiatives are supported, and opinions and perspectives are valued.

Required Skills:

● Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least Django (More web frameworks are a plus)

● 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

● Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 (is a plus)

● Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

● Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Strong unit test and debugging skills

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

● Knowledge of application deployment process and server set up

● Integration of data storage solutions

Responsibilities:

● Owning one or more of the web services; adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/ improving code base.

● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

● Translating product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives.

● Good knowledge of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, & agile development.

● Work on cutting-edge web technologies to make a powerful impact on 1M+ enterprise users

● Be part of a growing team that will design, develop, and test software and cross-product applications which span across different Planview products

● Work in an agile engineering team writing maintainable and scalable code for software components and influencing team decisions

● Contribute to the product’s architecture vision and execution, working closely with cross-product teams and other leaders within the R&D department

● Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers

● Drive continuous improvement of software quality, CX and maintainability of features

● Continuous learning of technology trends, tools, and approaches, including sharing this knowledge with your team

Requirement:

• Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain. 
• Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
• Strong hold on  Python
• Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
• Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
• Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
• Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
• Ability to do database design and modeling
• Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
• Ability to write modular and clean code

Required Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.
• Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+ and REST APIs
• Minimum 3+ years experience with AWS or related services.
• Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
• True love for technology and what you do
• Maniacal attention to detail
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be coordinating our enterprise account-specific teams called squads, consisting of members from engineering, machine-learning, and conversation-design teams.
• There are five working groups in the organization, (i) Business (ii) Research (iii) Solutions (iv) Product, and (v) Operations, where you will be joining the Solutions, working group.
• You will be collaborating with the sales team to design an appropriate solution to the customer's problems and help them showcase the value of the product.
• You will be collaborating with the operations team to ensure we are not compromising on our quality standards.
• You will also be co-working with the product working group to help them improve the overall platform and to prioritize the high-impact initiatives in the roadmap.

Work you will be doing:

• You will be building bespoke voice bots for enterprise clients using internal tools.
• You're expected to help build the Solutions stack whose goal is to reduce the amount of effort put into building our voice bots. 
• You will be involved in analyzing client calls where you're expected to use either data pipelines or SQL to get insights into caller behavior.

• Professional experience of at least 1 year.
• Has experience with integrating or building HTTP APIs
• Has hands-on experience working with Python
• Good communicator

Optional Requirements:

• Has experience working in any of Django Rest Framework, Redis, Celery

Skit uses a microservices architecture where we employ both HTTP and GRPC to communicate between our services