
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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- Programming Language: Python (Strong knowledge)
- Concurrency & Parallelism: Multithreading, Multiprocessing, AsyncIO, ThreadPoolExecutor, Future, concurrent.futures
- Memory Management: Reference Counting, Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
- Distributed Computing: Dask, Apache Spark (Preferred)
- Data Processing: NumPy
- Inter-Service Communication: GRPC, REST API
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Software Development Practices: Code Optimization, Debugging, Performance Tuning
- Communication & Problem-Solving: Technical Documentation, Team Collaboration, Asking for Clarity When Needed
Skills And Expertise
- Python,
- Multithreading,
- Multiprocessing,
- Dask, Apache Spark,
- NumPy,
- REST API,
- Docker,
- Kubernetes,
- Code Optimization
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Analyze and improve data quality and metrics.
- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions.
- Assist in the career development of others, mentoring on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
- Skilled in translating high level abstract business requirements into software design, designing systems specifications, standards, and programming
- Contribute to Architectural blueprints and Design for the software solutions
- Mentor team on engineering best practices such as writing clean code, designing scalable, reliable and performant software solutions, set and ensure compliance to software quality standards etc.
- Be a role model for the team with innovative thinking, passion for continuous learning and contributions to the project.
Qualifications, Skills & Experiences
- BE / B.Tech /M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum 7+/5+ years of experience building large scalable systems
- Minimum 2+ years of recent experience in building products on cloud is a plus
- Knowledge of asynchronous programming and WebAPI development is required
- Knowledge and awareness of cloud/ application security is must (OWASP at the minimum)
- Strong knowledge in OOPS with C#, .Net(or Java) with SQL Server or any RDBMS
- Strong experience in architecting and building multi-threaded, distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
- Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Extensive experience of mentoring junior engineers to success.
- Experience with Microservices Architecture is a plus
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and AWS/Azure cloud services is plus
- Hands on experience of building products for unix systems in addition to windows is a plus
- Excellent Communication
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Benison Technologies was started in 2011 with a mission to revolutionize the silicon industry in India, with a host of amazing big clients like Google, Cisco, McAfee, Intel, and so on, you get to experience the best of both worlds. If you consider yourself an engineer who is capable to join our ever-growing team, then this is the right opportunity for you:
Why Benison Tech?
We have a partial acquisition from one of the biggest names in the world (well we can’t name them thanks to confidentiality) it’s one of the FAANG companies, and you can “Google” it if you like.
Oh! & one more thing, this did not happen by accident, our team put a ton of efforts to turn this gigantic dream into a reality.
Benison Tech has a consistent history of demonstrating growth through innovation time and again.
We don’t stop there, we then re-invest our profits back into the initiatives for the growth of our people, our culture and the company. Now enough with us, let’s talk about the job roles & responsibilities:
What you will be working on:
- Key contributor for developing product strategies and features.
- Software development for industries leading SaaS platform
- You will be involved closely in planning, designing, integration of client requirements.
- You will be working with one of the leaders in data resiliency and data protection.
Here are some technical skills require:
- Independently own features and create feature test plans/strategies based on development and feature completion milestones.
- Identify quality assurance process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement.
- Design automation framework for automating feature tests.
- Participate in test cases, test plans, s and code reviews.
- Resolve functional queries coming from other business units such as support, escalation, product management, etc.
- Participate in bug trailing, tracking quality assurance metrics.
- Hands-on experience with Python-Selenium or Cypress, will be preferred.
- Familiarity with Test Management systems like XRay and bug tracker like JIRA tools.
What we expect from you:
- 3-10 Years of relevant experience in QA Automation.
- Expert at test automation, creating test plans, test strategies for testing multiple product modules
- Should be able to quickly analyze failures and trace back to issues in the product or the automation suite.
- As a Software Development Engineer in Test you should be an expert at test automation for APIs as well as UI, creating test plans and test strategies for testing product features.
- You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their automation code and test cases to ensure good coverage and quality of a feature
- Resolve functional queries coming from other business units such as support, escalation, product management, etc.
- Be a quick learner and be open to working on new technologies if needed.
- Excellent team player with strong verbal & written communication skills.
- Be able to step up when the situation demands such as meeting deadlines and critical production issues.
- Propose changes or enhancements to the framework for enabling new feature tests.
Few Skills which will add brownie points to your role
- Working knowledge of Dockers and Kubernetes will be an advantage
- Awareness of general manual and automation concepts and all types of testing methods
- Knowledge of the Backup or Storage domain will be an advantage.
If the above fits your skill-sets and tickles your interest then read below about the additional benefits that our company offers to talented folks like you:
Work Culture and Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
(H1-B which means a chance to work onsite out of India) - A culture focused on talent development where you get promoted within the quarterly cycle of your anniversary.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge & challenging technologies including legacy tech.
- Open cafeteria to grab some munchies while you work, we make sure the space feels like your second home, you can also wear pyjamas if you like.
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and long service awards, team bonding activities within the company, extra learning and personal development trainings, because why stop your learning at one thing!
- Insurance coverage: Group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and your parents. (With some of the best insurance partners in India)
- Enjoy collaborative innovation (each members gets to innovate & think out of the box), along with highly experienced team managers who maintain diversity and work-life well-being.
- And of course, you get to work on projects from some of the most recognised brands within the networking and security space of the world, unlocking global opportunities to learn, grow & contribute in a way that is truly impactful yet purposeful at the same time.
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About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Should Have experience leading a team.
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
- Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.
Opportunity
Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the core platform components.
- Work on integrations with 3rd party systems.
- Co-ordinate with frontend team, designers, and product managers on development requirements
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of experience in developing and managing software systems.
- Proficiency in programming, data structures and algorithms.
- Deep understanding of caching technologies, databases and OOPS.
- Computer science degree from a tier1 college is a MUST.
- Experience in Python is preferred.

Job Description
We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.
Responsibilities
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, Nodejs and CSS3
- Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors, such as LESS and SASS
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Good Understanding of Mysql database.
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Setup and administration of backups
- Outputting data in different formats









