Senior Backend Developer

Position: Senior Backend Developer

Type: Full-Time Location: Onsite

Experience Level: 5+ years (Intermediate to Senior)

About the Role: We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with 5+ years of experience to work alongside our AI/ML and frontend teams in building an AI-driven customer support system. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing the backend architecture, ensuring seamless integration with AI models, real-time data processing, and third-party tools. This role requires expertise in scalable API development, database management, and cloud deployment while ensuring high performance and security.

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Development & Architecture:

● Design and develop a scalable, high-performance backend to support AI-driven customer interactions.

● Build and optimize RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints for real-time voice and text processing.

● Develop microservices-based architectures to ensure modularity and scalability.

● Implement authentication & authorization mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, Role-Based Access Control).

AI & API Integration:

● Integrate AI models for speech recognition, sentiment analysis, and conversational AI.

● Ensure smooth data exchange between AI/ML models and frontend applications.

● Work with third-party tools such as Twilio, AWS Connect, and CRM systems for seamless interaction.

● Optimize API response times for real-time customer interactions with low latency.

Database Management & Data Processing:

● Design and manage relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases for AI model training and customer data.

● Implement efficient data pipelines for processing large datasets and real-time analytics.

● Ensure data consistency, integrity, and compliance with security standards.

Deployment, Security & Performance Optimization:

● Deploy scalable backend solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

● Implement CI/CD pipelines for smooth deployment and version control.

● Optimize database queries, API endpoints, and caching mechanisms for maximum performance.

● Implement security best practices (encryption, rate limiting, and logging).

Collaboration & Ownership:

● Work closely with AI/ML engineers and frontend developers to ensure seamless integration.

● Take ownership of backend architecture and propose enhancements for scalability.

● Stay updated with the latest backend technologies, AI integration techniques, and cloud advancements.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Education:

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Core Skills:

● Proficiency in backend programming languages (Python, Node.js, or Golang).

● Experience with machine learning libraries and AI model integration (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

● Expertise in RESTful API and GraphQL development for AI-driven applications.

● Proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis).

● Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

● Strong knowledge of cloud services (AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, GCP Functions, Firebase).

● Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS).

● Experience in implementing caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).

● Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

Preferred Experience:

● Previous experience working with AI-powered applications or conversational AI APIs.

● Familiarity with WebSockets and real-time communication protocols.

● Experience with serverless computing and cloud-native solutions.

● Strong understanding of distributed systems and large-scale architectures.

● Experience 3rd party API integrating (like Twilio, Vonage, or AWS Connect).

Soft Skills:

● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Excellent communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

● Proactive mindset with a focus on scalability and system optimization.

About Gyaan:

Gyaan empowers Go-To-Market teams to ascend to new heights in their sales performance, unlocking boundless opportunities for growth. We're passionate about helping sales teams excel beyond expectations. Our pride lies in assembling an unparalleled team and crafting a crucial solution that becomes an indispensable tool for our users. With Gyaan, sales excellence becomes an attainable reality.

About the Job:

Gyaan is seeking an experienced backend developer with expertise in Python, Django, AWS, and Redis to join our dynamic team! As a backend developer, you will be responsible for building responsive and scalable applications using Python, Django, and associated technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience programming in Python, Django
• Good understanding of CI/CD tools (Github Action, Gitlab CI) in a SaaS environment.
• Experience in building and running modern full-stack cloud applications using public cloud technologies such as AWS/
• Proficiency with at least one relational database system like MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with unit and integration testing.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex problems across different levels of the organization and to customers.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, software design lifecycle, and design patterns.
• Detail-oriented mindset to identify and rectify errors in code or product development workflow.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and concepts quickly, as the "cloud-native" field evolves rapidly.

Must Have Skills:

• Python
• Django Framework
• AWS
• Redis
• Database Management

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

If you are passionate about solving problems and have the required qualifications, we want to hear from you! You must be an excellent verbal and written communicator, enjoy collaborating with others, and welcome discussing a plan upfront. We offer a competitive salary, flexible work hours, and a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable products
• Participate in code reviews, and design discussions to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Pair with team members for functional and non-functional requirements to write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
• Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Understand business requirements and work closely with the business to provide solutions

Eligibility

• Strong expertise in Backend Python Development with skills to create APIs, integrate the functions into UI, and store and retrieve data from a variety of databases.
• Strong experience with Django/Flask.
• Strong experience in writing unit tests.
• B.Tech/B.E (Preferred CSE)

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming languages they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance

• Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

What you'll do?

●    Develop on server-side cloud software using a serverless approach (AWS).

●    Work hands-on on bringing to life IoT and Edge architectures and applications

●    Work with teams on delivering key features and performance targets.

Who You Are?

●    Passionate individual who loves to develop scalable backend

●    Strong programming capabilities

●    Understanding of cloud architecture and protocols.

●    Clear thought process, believe in simplifying rather than complicating

●    Argue and fight over opinions. Believe in always choosing the best

You Should Have

●    Experience on NoSQL Databases and designing REST API.

●    Strong fundamentals of Data structure and algorithm.

●    Done related projects during graduation/post-graduation.

●    Experience on AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, AWS Cloud Watch is a big plus.

Proficiency in Python 

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.

As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.

In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.

What You’ll Do:

• Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
• Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
• Build reusable components and packages for future use.
• Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
• Peer review code and refactor existing code.
• Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
• Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.

Requirements We’re Looking for Someone With:

• Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
• Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
• Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
• Ability to create high quality code
• Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
• Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
• Experienced in the tools of our web stack- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ

Nice to Haves:

• Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
• Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
• Cloud deployment and scaling experience*