Senior BackEnd Engineer

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Datacenter Backend Developer to architect and build highly scalable, reliable backend platforms for modern data centers. This role owns control-plane and data-plane services powering orchestration, monitoring, automation, and operational intelligence across large-scale on-prem, hybrid, and cloud data center environments.

This is a hands-on principal IC role with strong architectural ownership and technical leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end backend architecture for datacenter platforms (orchestration, monitoring, DCIM, automation).
• Design and build high-availability distributed systems at scale.
• Develop backend services using Java (Spring Boot / Micronaut / Quarkus) and/or Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django).
• Build microservices for resource orchestration, telemetry ingestion, capacity and asset management.
• Design REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven systems.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability, and reliability best practices.
• Embed SRE principles, observability, and security-by-design.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical roadmap decisions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Java and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments.
• Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, time-series data.
• Messaging systems: Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ.
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Secure backend design (OAuth2, RBAC, audit logging).

Nice to Have

• Experience with DCIM, NMS, or infrastructure automation platforms.
• Exposure to hyperscale or colocation data centers.
• AI/ML-based monitoring or capacity planning experience.

Why Join

• Architect mission-critical platforms for large-scale data centers.
• High-impact principal role with deep technical ownership.
• Work on complex, real-world distributed systems problems.

About the Role

Applix is looking for a Python Software Engineer with strong Azure cloud experience to build and operate AI-powered applications and agentic workflows. The engineer will work closely with our enterprise client teams to develop, deploy, and maintain AI solutions running on the Azure platform.

This role combines Python application development, AI platform integration, and cloud deployment responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python-based services and AI agents
• Develop and manage agentic workflows and automation pipelines
• Deploy and monitor applications on Azure cloud services
• Integrate with Azure AI services such as Azure OpenAI and Azure Document Intelligence
• Manage application deployments using Azure App Services or equivalent cloud platforms
• Monitor system performance, logs, and reliability in production environments
• Work with engineering teams to ensure scalable and secure deployments
• Support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for application delivery

Experience

3–8 years of relevant experience in software engineering and cloud development.

Required Skills

• Strong programming experience in Python
• Experience deploying applications on Microsoft Azure
• Familiarity with Azure App Services or equivalent cloud services
• Understanding of cloud deployment, monitoring, and DevOps practices
• Experience building APIs, automation workflows, or backend services
• Good problem-solving ability and communication skills
• Experience with Azure OpenAI
• Experience with Azure Document Intelligence
• Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry or AI platform services
• Exposure to LLM-based applications or AI workflows
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation

💥 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.

• 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
• Ability to sit with business or technical SMEs to listen, learn and propose technical solutions to business problems

·       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

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
• Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
• Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.

Job Title: ERPNext Developer 
Job Type: Full – Time
Location: Pune
Work Hours: 9: 00 AM to 6:00 PM
Min Salary: As per the Standard Market Rates

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The candidate will be required to Design, Configure, Build, Test, Deploy and Maintain ERPNext and Frappe based applications:

• Gathering technical requirements for internal and external customers.
• Creation of documentation for software development and testing.
• Participation and use of Agile development methodologies
• Drive continuous improvement in development and operations best practices
• Ability to convey complex information in both written and oral form to technical and non-technical audiences

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION, AND SKILLS:
Core qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills are needed in order to work successfully with prospects, customers, and cross-functional teams to meet development timelines
• Able to understand the complex business process and manage the project.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment
• Hands-on experience in developing ERP applications from the ground up.
• Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices
• Creative approach to problem-solving
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design and development skills.
• Commercial eCommerce portal development and maintenance is preferred. 
• 1-5 years of Experince is mandatory.

Technical qualifications:

• Experience in Frappe, ERPNext, JS, MySQL, Python & Frappe based web development. 
• Hands-on Product development over Frappe Framework, ERPNext
• Experience with workflows, access controls, page layouts, custom objects, custom record types, reports, and dashboards design and development
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies 
• OOP concepts and Backend Development Experience
• MySQL on MariaDB or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with hosting web application on Apache or NGINX
• Experience in UI/UX development for Web Applications is essential.
• Experience with one or more ERPNext Modules like Human Resources, CRM, Buying, Selling, Asset Management, Stock, Buying, Accounting, and Project.
• Senior position requires experience with multiple modules of ERPNext. 
• BS in computer science or technology equivalent preferred