


Job Title: Backend Developer - Fintech
Responsibilities:
- Architect and Develop: Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications and actionable plans.
- Debug and Resolve: Identify and fix backend issues and bugs, ensuring a seamless user experience for financial applications.
- Optimize Systems: Continuously enhance backend systems for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Code Quality: Uphold high standards of code quality, organization, and implement automated testing processes to meet industry standards.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of fintech industry trends, technological advancements, and regulatory updates to continually improve backend architecture.
Requirements:
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in backend development with a strong skill set in Python and Django.
- API Development: Extensive experience in developing secure and compliant RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework.
- Database Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of MySQL for database design, optimization, and maintenance; experience with MongoDB is a plus.
- DevOps: Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization.
- Cloud Services: Exposure to cloud services (AWS, GCP) with an emphasis on security and regulatory compliance.
- Software Principles: Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices in the fintech domain.
- Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
- Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team-oriented fintech environment.
- Version Control: Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development.
Preferred Skills:
- Asynchronous Processing: Familiarity with asynchronous task processing using Celery or similar technologies, especially in financial transaction processing.
- AWS Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, with a focus on security and compliance.
- GCP Expertise : VPC, Virtual Machines, SQL, IP whitelisting
- Caching Mechanisms: Experience with caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis) for optimizing real-time data access and processing.
- Continuous Learning: Eagerness to learn and adapt, staying updated with emerging technologies and methodologies in backend development and the fintech industry.

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We are looking to expand our existing Python team across our offices in Surat.
The requirements are as follows:
1) Familiar with the the Django REST API Framework.
2) Experience with the FAST API framework will be a plus
3) Strong grasp of basic python programming concepts ( We do ask a lot of questions on this on our interviews :) )
4) Experience with databases like MongoDB , Postgres , Elasticsearch , REDIS will be a plus
5) Experience with any ML library will be a plus.
6) Familiarity with using git , writing unit test cases for all code written and CI/CD concepts will be a plus as well.
7) Familiar with basic code patterns like MVC.
8) Grasp on basic data structures.


Hiring For SDE II - Python (Remote)
The Impact you will create:
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Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
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Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
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Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
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Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
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Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
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Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
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You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
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As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
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You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
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Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
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Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.
Primary Responsibilities
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End-to-end ownership of product development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
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Translating high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks
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Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of architecture
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Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting systems for existing and new infrastructure
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Documenting API's and architecture design
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Mentor and guide juniors on their path to become solid developers
What we look for?
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4+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles
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Solid knowledge of Python, SQL, NoSQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment
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End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products
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Ability to challenge and redefine existing architecture to create robust, scalable and reliable products
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Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, queue based systems, distributed databases and streaming services
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Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as kOps, Kubernetes and Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and autoscaling


About the Role:
- We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Python Developer to join our dynamic team based in Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python development, object-oriented programming, and cloud-based application development. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems using modern frameworks and tools.
- This role is hybrid, with a strong emphasis on working from the office to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services using Python.
- Develop RESTful APIs and ensure their performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
- Work with popular Python frameworks such as Django or Flask for rapid development.
- Integrate and work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP or similar).
- Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design cohesive code.
- Apply object-oriented programming principles to solve real-world problems efficiently.
- Implement and support event-driven architectures where applicable.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues.
- Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code with proper documentation.
- Contribute to system architecture and code review processes.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Python development.
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Data Structures.
- Proficiency in building and consuming REST APIs.
- Experience working with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Hands-on experience with Python frameworks like Django, Flask, or similar.
- Familiarity with event-driven programming and asynchronous processing.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a team environment.


We are seeking enthusiastic and driven interns with strong technical expertise to join our team in Bangalore. The ideal candidate should possess:
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Hands-on experience with Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and A360.
- A solid engineering background.
- Ability to join immediately and work collaboratively on challenging projects.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain practical experience and grow your skills in automation and programming.


💥 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.


- Design and build user-facing products, owning the entire process from gathering functional requirements from teams, through testing and staging, to deploying in a Python based stack
- Guide the team in making technical trade-offs
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and put forth a plan to course-correct
- Design and implement maintainable backend services, including data processing pipelines, APIs and internal tools
- Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions



● Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Python or Go.
● Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
● Solid understanding of how REST APIs work: GET, POST, PUT and PATCH
● Basic understanding of AWS cloud and its services like lambda, EC2, Document DB, EKS etc.
● Understanding MongoDB would be a bonus.
● Excellent project management skills.
● Ability to work independently or with a group.


- At least 4 years of experience programming in Python.
- Develop application code and modules for business and technical requirements.
- Tune up design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
- Resolve and troubleshoot problems and complex issues.
- Perform unit tests and fix bugs.
- Integrate best qualitative practices in design and development aspects of programs.
- Ability to mentor subordinates.
- Excellent communication skills.


Intro
We are looking for an Software Engineer (SDE1) to join our team and drive the technology growth of our pay later platform. At Rely, we want passionate and talented individuals that want a challenge building the next generation payment products for Millennials across Asia. Together we will build the best products using amazing technology.
What will you do
- Design and implement business critical, high performance large scale services.
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
- Coordinate with cross functional teams (Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
- Continuously improve code quality, product execution and customer delight.
- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
- Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments.
- Work with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread goals across the team.
What will you need
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with python and a backend framework (ideally django)
- 1+ years Hands-on experience working with Javascript and JS frameworks (Angular, React)
- Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications large scale applications in any language or stack
- Experience working with high scale distributed systems.
- Practical knowledge of scalable software design.
- Good working knowledge of AWS
- Proficient with APIs, web protocols, OAuth, git.
- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Well versed with Lean methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
- Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
What would be a bonus
- Experience in production environments with large data sets
- Experience in scaling systems to millions of users.
- Work experience in a fast-growth startup
- Experience in DevOps tools but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience in Gunicorn and Nginx



