


We are looking for an experienced Senior API Developer with expertise in Python to join our talented development team. The candidate should have over 8 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing APIs, with a strong emphasis on performance and scalability. Proficiency with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications is required. This role is pivotal to our mission of delivering top-tier solutions that power our core business functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- API Development: Design, develop, and maintain high-quality APIs using Python frameworks such as Django Rest Framework or FastAPI.
- Documentation with Swagger/OpenAPI: Employ Swagger/OpenAPI tools to produce clear and thorough API documentation.
- Integration: Implement and manage integrations between APIs and various internal and external services.
- Optimize Performance: Monitor and enhance the performance of APIs to ensure fast response times and low latency.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with other developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver optimal solutions.
- Code Quality: Uphold best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment. Participate in peer code reviews.
- Debugging and Support: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
- Continuous Learning: Stay informed about emerging technologies and methodologies in Python and API development.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Experience: At least 8 years of professional experience in API development with a focus on Python.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Python programming language.
- Strong experience with API design, development, and RESTful services.
- Expertise with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
- Familiarity with Python frameworks like Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Experience with ORMs such as SQLAlchemy or Django ORM.
- Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.
- Experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across departments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
What We Offer:
- Competitive Compensation: Reflective of your experience and the value you bring.
- Growth Opportunities: Support for professional development, training, and certifications.
- Flexible Work Environment: Remote work options and flexible hours to promote work-life balance.

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Experience : 4 to 8 Years
Location : Gurgaon Sector - 43
Employment Type : Full-time
Job Summary :
We are looking for an experienced Python Backend Engineer with a strong background in FastAPI, Django, and hands-on exposure to MLOps and LLMOps practices.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for building scalable backend solutions, integrating AI/ML models into production environments, and implementing efficient pipelines for machine learning and large language model operations.
Mandatory Skills : Python, FastAPI, Django, MLOps, LLMOps, REST API development, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD.
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop, optimize, and maintain backend services using Python (FastAPI, Django).
- Design and implement API endpoints for high-performance and secure data exchange.
- Collaborate with data science teams to deploy ML/LLM models into production using MLOps/LLMOps best practices.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for ML models and ensure seamless integration with backend systems.
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- Optimize backend performance for scalability and reliability in AI-driven applications.
- Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) for deployment and orchestration.
- Ensure best practices in code quality, testing, and security for all backend and model deployment workflows.
Required Skills & Qualifications :
- 4 to 8 years of experience as a Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Python.
- Proficient in FastAPI and Django frameworks for API and backend development.
- Hands-on experience with MLOps and LLMOps workflows (model deployment, monitoring, scaling).
- Familiarity with machine learning model lifecycle and integration into production systems.
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and asynchronous programming.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
- Good understanding of Git, version control, and testing frameworks.
Nice to Have :
- Experience with LangChain, Hugging Face, or similar LLM frameworks.
- Knowledge of data pipelines, feature engineering, and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.).
- Understanding of vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, etc.).
Education :
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.
They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.
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Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.


- Apply fundamental software engineering design principles and write effective, scalable code.
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Strong understanding of multi-threading, synchronization & performance analysis of web applications
- Highly experienced with developing RESTful API’s
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Develop unit tests, automation and debug code
- Improve & maintain the functionality of existing systems
- Implement security and data protection solutions
- Understand the big picture, coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
Roles & Responsibilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field.
- 5+ work experience as a Python Developer
- Expertise in Django or at least one other popular Python web framework
- (like Flask or Pyramid)
- Excellent Python 3 development & debugging skills
- Knowledge of object oriented analysis & design as well as object-relational mapping (ORM) techniques
- Strong understanding microservices architecture & design patterns
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles, including good
- documentation of API using Swagger/OpenAPI specifications
- Familiarity with GIT
- Familiarity with microservices development & deployment, including CI/CD pipelines
- (e.g. Jenkins) and containerization platforms (e.g, Docker)
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
- Excellent team spirit & exceptional problem-solving skills


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- Implement best practices for the engineering team across code hygiene, overall architecture design, testing, and deployment activities
- Drive technical decisions for building data pipelines, data lakes, and analyst access.
- Act as a leader within the engineering team, providing support and mentorship for teammates across functions
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience
- Experienced developer in large data environments
- Experience using Git productively in a team environment
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
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· Experience using and adapting to new technologies
· Take and understand business requirements and goals
· Work collaboratively with project managers and stakeholders to make sure that all aspects of the project are delivered as planned
· Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience with non-relational databases and their role in web architectures desired
Knowledge and Experience:
- Good experience with Elixir and functional programming a plus
- Several years of python experience
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational skills
Proven verbal and written cross-department and customer communication skills


What will you be doing
- Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
- Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
- Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
- Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on AWS
- Give back to the open-source community through contributions to code and blog posts
- This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
About you
- Relevant Experience: Minimum 6+ Years
- You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
- Hands-on experience in Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web/app-based tech products
- Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- You love doing things efficiently.The works you will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources


- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
- Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
- Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
- Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
- Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
- Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
- Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.
Skills & Requirements
- Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
- At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
- Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
- Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
- Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
- Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Have empathy for the users you build for
Good to have
- Experience in the fintech industry
- Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

Technical Experience :
- 2-6 years of Python working experience
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework /Django/ Flask
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping d
- Familiarity with front-end technologies JavaScript and HTML5
Key Responsibilities :
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Test and debug programs5 Improve functionality


● 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.


Immedieate joiners are preferred or those who cn join withn 15-20 days. - B.Tech in Computer Science from premier institute (IIT/NIT/IIIT)or equivalent work experience - 2 years’ experience developing Backend systems - Good understanding of algorithms and data structures - Knowledge of Cache, Queues, NoSQL & RDBMS(Mysql) - Proficiency in PHP/Python/Ruby/Java - Experience with MVC architectural pattern / framework like Django, ROR, Node.js - Experience of object-oriented programming / modular programming - Ability to multi-task, work with ambiguity and quickly re-prioritizing responsibilities - Experience with Agile software development - Knowledge of testing performance & stability using tools - Experience with either Github or GitLab, Confluence, & Jira
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Professional experience required: Total experience: 2+ Years
Industry/Role experience: - 2+ years’ experience developing Backend systems - Experience with Agile software development
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Behavioral Attributes: - Must have excellent communication skills - Must be the ability come up with innovative ideas and out-of-the-box solutions - Must be willing to challenge conventional methods to achieve exponential results |


