
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.

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Backend Engineer III – Senior Python Developer (LLM & AI)
Location: Gurgaon, India
Positions: 1
Experience: 6 to 9 Years
Gurgaon Hybrid
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer III / Senior Python Developer to join our AI engineering team and play a critical role in building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend platforms for LLM and AI-driven applications. You will work as a hands-on individual contributor while collaborating closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Cloud/DevOps teams to deliver innovative, production-grade AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and services using Python to support LLM and AI-based applications
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices that serve machine learning models and AI components
- Write clean, modular, efficient, and testable code following industry best practices and coding standards
- Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring high quality, security, and maintainability of the codebase
- Debug, profile, and optimize applications to improve performance, reliability, and scalability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in AI/ML pipelines and backend services
- Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate business and technical requirements into robust backend solutions
- Mentor and support junior developers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows to ensure consistent and reliable releases
- Stay up to date with emerging trends in Python, cloud-native development, and LLM/AI engineering practices and apply them to improve systems and processes
Required Skills & Experience
- 6 to 9 years of strong hands-on experience in Python development
- Solid understanding of Python software design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices
- Proven experience working on AI, Machine Learning, or LLM-based projects
- Strong experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, or similar model-serving frameworks
- Strong debugging, performance profiling, and optimization skills
- Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a strong plus
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving AI/ML environment while mentoring junior team members
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- AWS or other relevant cloud certifications are preferred but not mandatory
Why Join Us?
- Work on cutting-edge AI and LLM platforms
- Collaborate with top-tier engineering and data science teams
- Opportunity to influence system architecture and technical direction
- Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities
About Tamasha
Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer
experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend
systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and high
throughput event-driven services.
Role Overview
As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior
individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design
scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence
engineering standards across teams.
Roles & Responsibilities
Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to
production reliability and long-term evolution.
Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real
time and event-driven use cases.
Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async
workflows, and scalability strategies.
Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests,
or messages per day.
Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and
participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.
Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and
synchronous to asynchronous flows.
Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex
requirements into robust backend solutions.
Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling,
CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance
without direct people management.
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability
risks and resolve them at the system level.
Tech Stack
Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub
Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events
Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
What We’re Looking For
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures
• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability
• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems
Job Overview:
We are looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Java and Spring, with proven experience in building scalable microservices and backend systems. This role also requires familiarity with automation tools, Python development, and working knowledge of AI technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices.
- Build and integrate RESTful APIs across distributed systems.
- Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of backend systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in agile development.
- Deploy and maintain applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute to automation initiatives and AI/ML feature integration.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following best practices.
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
Required Skills:
- 4+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and Spring/Spring Boot frameworks.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience with REST APIs, CI/CD, and debugging complex systems.
- Proficient in AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication in English (written and verbal).
Good to Have:
- Experience with automation tools like Workato or similar.
- Hands-on experience with Python development.
- Familiarity with AI/ML features or API integrations.
- Comfortable working with US-based teams (flexible hours).
About Company
Espressif Systems (688018) is a public multinational, fabless semiconductor company established in 2008, with headquarters in Shanghai and offices in Greater China, India, and Europe. We have a passionate team of engineers and scientists from all over the world, focused on developing cutting-edge WiFi-and-Bluetooth, low-power IoT solutions. We have created the popular ESP8266 and ESP32 series of chips, modules, and development boards. By leveraging wireless computing, we provide green, versatile, and cost-effective chipsets. We have always been committed to offering IoT solutions that are secure, robust, and power-efficient. By open-sourcing our technology, we aim to enable developers to use Espressif’s technology globally and build smart connected devices. In July 2019, Espressif made its Initial Public Offering on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).
Espressif has a technology center in Pune. The focus is on embedded software engineering and IoT solutions for our growing customers.
About the Role
Espressif’s https://rainmaker.espressif.com/ is a paradigm-shifting IoT cloud platform that provides seamless connectivity to IoT devices to mobile apps, voice assistants, and other services. It is designed with scalability, security, reliability, and operational cost at the center. We are looking for senior cloud engineers who can significantly contribute to this platform by means of architecture, design, and implementation. It’s highly desirable that the candidate has earlier experience of working on large-scale cloud product development and understand the responsibilities and challenges well. Strong hands-on experience in writing code in Go, Java, or Python is a must.
This is an individual contributor role.
Minimum Qualifications
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BE/B.Tech in Computer Science with 5-10 years of experience.
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Strong Computer Science Fundamentals.
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Extensive programming experience in one of these programming languages ( Java, Go, Python) is a must.
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Good working experience of any of the Cloud Platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
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Certification in any of these cloud platforms will be an added advantage.
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Good Experience in the development of RESTful APIs, handling the security and
performance aspects.
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Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
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Experience working with RDBMS or any NoSQL database like DynamoDB, MYSQL, Oracle.
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Working knowledge about CI/CD tools - Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, experience in a Linux (or Unix) based environment.
Desired Qualifications
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Exposure to Serverless computing frameworks like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions
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Some Exposure to front end development tools - HTML5, CSS, Javascript, React.js/Anular.js
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Working knowledge on Docker, Jenkins.
Prior experience working in the IoT domain will be an added advantage.
What to expect from our interview process
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The first step is to email your resume or apply to the relevant open position, along with a sample of something you have worked on such as a public GitHub repo or side project, etc.
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Next, post shortlisting your profile recruiter will get in touch with you via a mechanism that works for you e.g. via email, phone. This will be a short chat to learn more about your background and interests, to share more about the job and Espressif, and to answer any initial questions you have.
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Successful candidates will then be invited for 2 to 3 rounds of the technical interviews as per the previous round feedback.
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Finally, Successful candidates will have interviews with HR. What you offer us
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Ability to provide technical solutions, support that fosters collaboration and innovation.
Ability to balance a variety of technical needs and priorities according to Espressif’s growing needs.
What we offer
- An open-minded, collaborative culture of enthusiastic technologists.
- Competitive salary
- 100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life coverage
- Frequent training by experienced colleagues and chances to take international trips, attend exhibitions, technical meetups, and seminars.
3+ years of hands-on experience in Go Lang & its design patterns
Worked in telecom domain
Good understanding of events & handler
Strong understanding & hands on experience in concurrency, go routines & channels
Strong understanding & hands on experience in Spring frameworks and their modules
Integration experience with REST or SOAP APIs
Strong hands-on experience in webservices and API
Good to have:
Docker & Kubernetes
Python development knowledge
Experience in Cloud technologies
Soft Skills:
Good communication skills & presentation skills.
Self-driven work attitude
Should be independently able to drive the tasks.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Additional Job requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
- BS in computer science or related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
- Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
● You have a minimum of 7 years of experience working on production systems at a
productcompany with a decent scale
● You have a deep understanding of design patterns, memory/performance optimization, and how to summarise and share knowledge
● You have experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability,performance, and reliability
● You have excellent experience in managing security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and scalability
● You have familiarity with microservice architecture, containers, and related technologies
● You have strong knowledge of software development fundamentals, including relevant backgroundin computer science fundamentals and agile development methodologies.
● You have a strong development experience in using modern web frameworks in
programminglanguages like Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript.
● You have a strong understanding of relational databases and SQL and you practice test drivendevelopment
● Would be an added advantage if you have a passion for mentoring and helping people on your team grow and achieve their goals
● You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that startups are a team sport. Youlisten to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
● You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company.
● If you like to tinker and have hobby projects, send us links to your blog, github etc
Location: We are open to candidates working from anywhere in India/across the globe. At the moment, however, like most teams, we are fully remote.

• Architecture: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture.
• Strong coding/debugging abilities: You have advanced knowledge of at least one
programming language, and are happy to learn more. Either Go or Java
• Distributed Systems: Experience building distributed systems at scale.
• Fast learner:
• A team player:
• Design and business acumen
Basic Qualifications
• 8 years of experience profeciency in Java or Go language and in handling large data systems
• Proficiency in Spark and related big data handling architectures• Proficiency in SQL











