
Senior Backend Developer
at Fast-growing startup that serving retail industry

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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.
· Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models and algorithms.
· Focus on building Proof of Concept (POC) applications to demonstrate the feasibility and value of AI solutions.
· Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
· Collaborate with data engineers to ensure data quality and availability for model training and evaluation.
· Work closely with senior team members to understand project requirements and contribute to technical solutions.
· Troubleshoot and debug AI/ML models and applications.
· Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI/ML.
· Utilize machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) to develop and deploy models.
· Develop and deploy AI solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
· Implement data preprocessing and feature engineering techniques using libraries like Pandas and NumPy.
· Utilize Vertex AI for model training, deployment, and management.
· Integrate and leverage Google Gemini for specific AI functionalities.
Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
· 3+ years of experience in developing and implementing AI/ML models.
· Strong programming skills in Python.
· Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
· Good understanding of machine learning concepts and techniques.
· Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
· Strong problem-solving skills.
· Good communication skills.
· Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is preferred.
· Familiarity with Vertex AI is a plus.
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relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
● Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures.
● Proficient in Java, Springboot and Mysql.
● Able to efficiently diagnose bugs and issues.
● Understanding of when to escalate questions/issues that arise during development.
● Work with other developers, QA, DevOps and business staff to efficiently launch features
and resolve issues.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
● A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly and get things done.
● Provide input to how we can continually improve our development process and knowledge.
● Define and participate in establishing better engineering practices.
● Love being challenged by learning and experimenting with new technologies
● Experience with ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, Kakfa, AWS is a plus.
● Prior experience in building microservices, have worked on architectures and designs
independently is a plus.
● Prior product building experience or from a startup background would be a plus.
Experience in Design Patterns, Design principles & memory Management.
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
- Good experience of SOA/Microservices/Restful services and development of N-tier J2EE / Java Springboot applications (API- s).
- Strong understanding of database design and SQL (mySql/mariaDB) development
- Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other Queueing systems.
Delivery of High Quality, Scalable and Extensible systems, and applications on-time and on-budget.
-Adoption and Evolution of the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
- Keep in sync with the latest technology developments and open source offerings. - Collaborate with other technology and business teams within the organization to provide efficient robust solutions to the problems.
- Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
- Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
- Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
- Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
- Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
- Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
- Conduct sprint planning & sizing, engineering grooming, daily stand-ups, and deliver with zero spillovers.
- Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
- Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
- Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
- Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.
Requirements
- Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
- Should have experience in the continuous delivery process. Ship new features and improvising the code base continuously.
- Should have involved in setting up engineering process.
- Must have experience in microservices and distributed patterns.
- Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
- Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
- Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
- Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
- Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
- Must have experience in modern back-end tech stacks (Django, Postgress, NoSQL) and cloud design & deployment patterns.
- Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
- Should be good with design patterns and integration patterns.
- Should have knowledge/ experience in concurrent programming & distributed locks.
- Requires solid understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
- Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
o Strong Python development skills, with 7+ yrs. experience with SQL.
o A bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science or related areas
o8+ years of experience in data integration and pipeline development
o Experience in Implementing Databricks Delta lake and data lake
o Expertise designing and implementing data pipelines using modern data engineering approach and tools: SQL, Python, Delta Lake, Databricks, Snowflake Spark
o Experience in working with multiple file formats (Parque, Avro, Delta Lake) & API
o experience with AWS Cloud on data integration with S3.
o Hands on Development experience with Python and/or Scala.
o Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
o Experience in using data modeling techniques and tools (focused on Dimensional design)
o Experience with micro-service architecture using Docker and Kubernetes
o Have experience working with one or more of the public cloud providers i.e. AWS, Azure or GCP
o Experience in effectively presenting and summarizing complex data to diverse audiences through visualizations and other means
o Excellent verbal and written communications skills and strong leadership capabilities
Skills:
Python
- Create a platform to change the way kids learn: Because company is solving a unique problem, we have the chance to reimagine education. Be it collaboration or puzzles or interactive videos or even 3D experiences, there is a huge scope for innovation. You can help us get there.
- Tackle challenging and impactful problems: You'd jump between product, marketing, internal tools, process — participating in every phase from inception to implementation. Absolutely no boredom.
- Join us at a magical time: We went through Y Combinator, have raised funding and are seeing strong traction with a very lean team. You get to be among the first employees in one of the strongest and most passionate teams in the EdTech space.
So, what will you do as a Full Stack Lead at company?
- As one of the early employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
- You'll take ownership and build new product features from start to finish. We love to hire ‘Product Engineers’ who care about “why” behind a feature and suggest changes to hit the objectives even better
- You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
- You will mentor new joiners, review the pull requests and help with expanding the team as we grow
This might be for you if...
- You have strong knowledge of both front and back end technologies
- You have been professionally coding for at least 4 years
- You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
- You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
- You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
- You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
- Bonus: You're fluent with Typescript, Python, Go, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker.
- Bonus: You're familiar with multiple frameworks such as React, Django
- Bonus: You understand AWS infrastructure and can put out a fire if one happens
- Should have experience in supporting the application and infrastructure 24x7.
- Should have good working knowledge on troubleshooting skills of Operating Systems (Linux/Windows)
- Good experience on Java/j2EE application supporting and AWS infra supporting.
- Ability to work with 3rd parties/FOPS and provide required instruction to troubleshoot and restore faults.
- Respond quickly and effectively to production issues, troubleshooting solutions, and taking responsibility for seeing those solutions through resolution.
- Identify root cause and corrective actions for highly complex availability, capacity, security, performance, and quality issues affecting the database.
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix operating system.
- Good knowledge in scripting languages like Shell, Python.
- Good Knowledge on Databases like Mongo, Mysql, SQL Server.
- Respond to alerts and take corrective action to ensure the high-availability of our production environments and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.
- Experience/Knowledge of other cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud) is a plus
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must
- Must have production support experience as the requirement is 24X7X365 production support.








