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

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Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)
● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to
Python and/or Golang.
● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production
environments.
● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps
practices.
● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even
if not coding daily).
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.
● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.
● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,
agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a
significant advantage.
Skills
● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.
● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.
● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.
● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.
Designation: Senior Python Django Developer
Position: Senior Python Developer
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to ₹800,000.00 per year
Schedule: Day shift
Ability to commute/relocate: Bhopal Indrapuri (MP) And Bangalore JP Nagar
Experience: Back-end development: 4 years (Required)
Job Description:
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the startup environment.
This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
- Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
- Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
- Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
- Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
- Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
- Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
- Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.
Requirements:
- 4 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
- Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
- Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
- Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unit test, or factory boy.
- Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).
Preferred Skills:
- Exposure to event-driven architecture (Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
- Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
- Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in Apache Kafka and backend systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java (8/11+), Spring Boot, and building scalable, real-time data pipelines using Kafka.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Design and implement Kafka-based messaging and streaming solutions
- Optimize Kafka performance (topics, partitions, consumers)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable microservices
- Ensure code quality and maintain best practices in a distributed environment
Required Skills:
- 6+ years in Java development
- 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience (producers, consumers, streams)
- Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and stream processing
- Experience with containerization (Docker), CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Role Description
- We are looking to add a Software Engineer to contribute to the development, upgradation and management of our back end services for our website / PWA / app / chatbot / internal tools.
- You will be part of a lean team with a very steep learning / growth opportunity while working on and exploring some of the cutting edge technologies
- This is a full-time role in Mumbai with flexible working hours (including WFH)
- You will be working closely with the founder and be involved in strategic decisions such as back end architecture, tech stack selection, hiring, etc.
- We have multiple products in the pipeline and we need a strong team player who can contribute shoulder-to-shoulder with the existing team in the software development process.
- CTC offered: upto Rs. 22 Lakhs
What are we looking for in the candidate?
- Must have qualities: logical & independent thinker; problem solver; result oriented; takes ownership; ability to work indepenently with end-to-end output delivery; ability to structure the code (to avoid rework in future)
- Experience in writing production quality code in NodeJS, Python, Java, or Ruby on Rails
- Hands on experience in design web application using ExpressJS, Koa, Django
- Experience in designing and developing REST API. Familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
- Proficient in dealing with SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
- Experience with in-memory databases like Redis or MemCache; webserver like Apache, Nginx.
- Experience in stress testing and unit testing and familiarity with testing platforms is a plus
- Proven experience in implementing user authentication and authorization in distributed systems.
- Capability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Experience in designing and developing scalable system.
- Working experience with one of the cloud services like GCP, AWS , Digital Ocean, Azure, etc.
- Knowledge of low-code / no-code tools to expedite production is a plus
- Engineering degree; Computer Science preferably + minimum 2 years of work experience as a Back End Engineer (NOTE: Please do not apply if you do not meet this criteria)
- Clear communication, strong inter-personal skills
What can you expect to gain from the role?
- Experience of a lifetime by disrupting the antiquated tech of Real Estate
- Steep learning curve with opportunity to
- Opportunity to generate immense wealth for yourselves from the equity allocation
- A good cash salary
- Standard perks (health insurance, medical benefits etc.)
Hiring Process
- CV screening
- Coding Test
- Technical Interview
⦁ 2+ years of working experience as a software engineer.
⦁ Engineer capable of designing solutions, writing code, and deployment
⦁ Demonstrated skills, knowledge, and expertise with statistical computer languages (Python, Django) and the related ecosystem (PyCharm, Jupyter)
⦁ Good knowledge of Python.
⦁ Creative problem-solving ability and sound judgment ability to use own initiative and take responsibility for decisions.
Candidate must have
⦁ Good knowledge of Python
⦁ Django, Flask, FastApi
⦁ Candidates must have knowledge about Product Development.
⦁ Candidates must have Technical Degree.
Skills
⦁ Developing back-end components.
⦁ Design and develop web applications in Python, and Django.
⦁ Good knowledge of Django, Flask, FastApi
⦁ Must be proficient in writing python codes
⦁ Must have worked on back-end development
⦁ Integrate Python application with other internal applications.
⦁ Strong spoken and written communication skills in English
We are looking for a Java developer responsible for building Java applications. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end counterparts. Primary responsibility will be to design and develop these types of applications and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
Design, implement and maintain applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Skills:
Minimum 1+ years of experience in Java
Proficient in Java and Springboot
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
Familiarity with concepts of MVC, and RESTful
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Familiarity with build tools such as Maven, and Gradle
Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (Hibernate)
Excellent written and verbal communication.
About SteelEye
SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore and Paris, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability. The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses. We are looking to hire a seasoned SRE to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.
Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.
What you’ll do
- Deliver plugins for our Python-based ETL pipelines.
- Deliver Python microservices for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Implement algorithms to analyse large data sets.
- Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
- Deal with challenges associated with handling large volumes of data.
- Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
- Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
- Thrive in an environment that uses AWS and Elasticsearch extensively.
- Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
- Champion best development practices and provide mentorship.
What we’re looking for
- Experience in o Python 3.
- o Python libraries used for data (such as pandas, numpy).
- o AWS.
- o Elasticsearch.
- o Performance tuning.
- o Object Oriented Design and Modelling.
- o Delivering complex software, ideally in a FinTech setting.
- o CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of design patterns.
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.
About SteelEye Culture
- Work from home until you are vaccinated against COVID-19
- Top of the line health insurance • Order discounted meals every day from a dedicated portal
- Fair and simple salary structure
- 30+ holidays in a year
- Fresh fruits every day
- Centrally located. 5 mins to the nearest metro station (MG Road)
- Measured on output and not input
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development
- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc- )
- Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
- Experience with SOAP / REST web services
- Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable
- Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management
- Must have worked on any one messaging solutions
Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience
- Bonus points for any mobile development experience
- Used Agile methodology
- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams
- Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage
POSITION :
- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support.
- Primary role in software development with object-oriented Java
- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, and SQL.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture
- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms
- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud based or hosted product platforms
- Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great customers products.
- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.
QUALIFICATION :
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
- Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus
Job Role :
Quinbay is an upstart digital platforms and products company with a core focus on disrupting traditional markets and business models with the strength of our innovation driven digital value. We harness the power of our open innovation culture, our unique talent selection approach, the skills and expertise of our people across various industries, domains and technologies and a unique blend of analytics driven strategies for creating future digital platforms.
OPPORTUNITIES :
- Pursue opportunities in and learning/growth interests in Mobile, product development, product management, Analytics, Machine learning, UI/UX design, DevOps, Automation, Drones, bots and Java / open source development frameworks and methodologies - on a variety of domains like eCommerce, Logistics and fulfilment, Mcommerce and a whole lot others.
- Opportunities to be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.
Biddano is seeking for an analytical, result driven, multi-skilled candidate for design for the position of Backend Developer. He/She will be responsible for programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems and create a more seamless experience for users.
The ideal candidate will have strong personal accountability for results, strong commitment to teamwork in support of the company's success, adherence to ethical business practices, and comfort operating in a start-up environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure.
a start-up environment with an ability to prioritize and drive actions to closure.
Backend Developer
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional REST APIs Using Django/Python or NodeJs
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Perform unit test cases to optimize performance
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Skills Required:
- Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands on experience with programming languages like Python (Required), typescript(Required), Java.
- Working knowledge of CMS framework
- Familiarity with back-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Backend:
- Django/DjangoREST, Python (Prefered) or NodeJs.
- Good experience of microservices.
- Hosting and Deployment Solutions:
- Good understanding of AWS which includes(All required):
- Good expertise in Linux.
- EC2 instance management.
- Scalability (Horizontal or Vertical) which includes autoscaling.
- Proper use of S3 for static file management.
- SNS or AWS email service.
- AWS resource cost optimization.
- Proper knowledge of Load Balancers.
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
Experience :
- Minimum 4-7 years of experience as a Backend Developer
- B.tech Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field








