Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Django Developer to join our on-site engineering team in Pune. This role involves building and scaling high-performance backend systems for our SaaS products. You will work closely with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to design robust APIs, optimize databases, and deliver production-grade solutions.

This is a hands-on role with ownership, technical depth, and real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Django & Python
• Architect and implement secure, high-performance RESTful APIs
• Work extensively with PostgreSQL for schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
• Build and manage asynchronous workflows using Celery
• Implement real-time features using Daphne, Redis, and WebSockets (ASGI stack)
• Containerize applications using Docker; manage Docker Compose and environment setups
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and designers for seamless delivery
• Perform code reviews, mentor junior developers, and enforce best practices
• Ensure application security, scalability, and reliability
• Monitor system performance and handle debugging, logging, and error management
• Maintain clear documentation for APIs, services, and deployment workflows
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Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3-4 years of hands-on experience with Django & Python
• Strong expertise in REST API design and backend architecture
• Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL (queries, indexing, optimization)
• Solid experience with Celery for background tasks
• Hands-on experience with Daphne, Redis, and WebSockets
• Strong command over Docker & containerized deployments
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub workflows, PR reviews, and basic CI
• Excellent understanding of ORM concepts and database modeling
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
• Experience using AI/LLM tools to improve productivity is a plus
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Nice-to-Have

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Basic frontend understanding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience handling high-traffic systems and performance optimization
• Exposure to Agile / Scrum environments
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What We Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Opportunity to work on scalable SaaS and AI-driven platforms
• Strong engineering culture with ownership and autonomy
• On-site collaborative environment with fast decision-making
• Learning, growth, and leadership opportunities
• Challenging projects with end-to-end responsibility

Expectations & Deliverables

• Production-ready, well-tested, and maintainable code
• Proactive communication and ownership of deliverables
• High-quality documentation and clean architecture practices
• Adherence to security, compliance, and IP standards

Job Description: Python Developer  

Location: Pune   Employment Type: Full-Time   Experience: 0.6-1+ year 

Role Overview 

We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with 0.6-1+ years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Python, REST APIs, Flask, and databases. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services.  

Key Responsibilities  

• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality Python applications.  
• Design and build RESTful APIs using Flask.  
• Integrate APIs with front-end and third-party services.  
• Work with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB,  Redis).  
• Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues in backend applications.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features.  
• Follow best practices for code quality, security, and performance optimization.  

Required Skills  

• Strong proficiency in Python (0.6-1+ years).  
• Experience with Flask (or FastAPI/Django).  
• Hands-on experience with REST API development.  
• Proficiency in working with databases (SQL & NoSQL).  
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.  
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.  
• Ability to write clean, scalable, and well-documented code. 

Oister Global (www.oisterglobal.com) is India’s premier Alternative Assets Manager. We combine robust diligence, deep domain expertise, and an extensive network to create high quality private market opportunities for our investors.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will be pivotal in architecting and developing scalable, reliable backend systems from scratch. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build new products, design backend architectures, and ensure high performance and responsiveness of the systems. This role requires strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, a deep understanding of databases, and a passion for system design and architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

● Product Development: Architect, design, develop, test, and deploy new backend products and features from scratch.

● System Design: Take ownership of system design and architecture decisions for new modules, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. ● API Development: Build efficient and reusable APIs and backend services using Node.js.

● Database Management: Design data models, optimize queries, and manage MongoDB clusters efficiently.

● Cloud Management: Deploy, maintain, and optimize services on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.

● Best Practices: Maintain coding standards, ensure code reviews, and champion best practices in security, testing, and maintainability.

● Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, QA, and other cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

● Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance and ensure system uptime and responsiveness.

● Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers as required.

● Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of systems, processes, and best practices. Must-Have

Qualifications:

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

● Experience: 4–5+ years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Expertise in: Node.js (Express.js, Nest.js or similar frameworks) MongoDB (including indexing, replication, sharding concepts) AWS Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.) Proficient in: System design principles Microservices architecture Event-driven architecture Strong understanding of: RESTful APIs.Authentication and authorization best practices (OAuth, JWT) Experience with: CI/CD pipelines Docker and containerization principles Hands-on experience in: Building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems Good knowledge of : Logging, monitoring, and debugging distributed applications

WHO WILL LOVE THIS JOB?

• Attracted to creativity, innovation, and eagerness to learn

• Alignment to a fast-paced organization and its short-term and long-term goals

• An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels

• Strong value system and sense of ethics • Absolute dedication to premium quality

• Want to build strong core product team capable of developing solutions for complex, industry-first problems.

• Build balance of experience, knowledge, and new learnings

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Driving the success of the software engineering team at Datamotive.

• Collaborating with senior and peer engineers to prioritize and deliver features on the roadmap.

• Build strong development team with focus on building optimized & usable solutions.

• Research, Design & Develop distributed solution to handle workload mobility across multi & hybrid cloudsr

• Assist in Identifying, Researching & Designing newer features and cloud platform support in areas of disaster recovery, data protection, workload migration etc.

• Assist in building product roadmap.

• Conduct pilot tests to assess the functionality of newly developed programs.

• Front facing customers for product introduction, knowledge transfer, solutioning, bugs triaging etc.

• Assist customers by giving product demos, conducting POCs, trainings etc.

• Manage Datamotive infrastructure, bring innovative automation for optimizing infrastructure usage through monitoring and scripting. • Design test environments to simulate customer behaviours and use cases in VMware vSphere, AWS, GCP, Azure clouds. • Help write technical documentation, generate marketing content like blogs, webinars, seminars etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS?

• Experience in software development with relevant domain understanding of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery.

• A strong understanding and demonstrable experience with at least one of the major public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure or VMware)

• A strong understanding and experience of designing and developing architecture of complex, distributed systems.

• Insights into development of client-server SaaS applications with good breadth across networking, storage, micro-services, and other web technologies.

• Experience of building and leading strong development teams with systems product development background

• Programming knowledge in either of GO Lang, C, C++, Python or Shell script.

• Should be a computer science graduate with strong fundamentals & problem-solving abilities.

• Good understanding of virtualization, storage and cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Kubernetes will be preferable

• Work with product managers to understand product requirements and make them live.
• Ownership of end to end development

• Startup mindset of getting things done and focussing on business goals
• Proven problem solving skills
• 3+ years Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using server side technology (Java, Spring Boot / Node.js, Express)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Good knowledge of design patterns
• Proficiency in REST architecture
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with Git/CI/CD/Gradle/Maven
• Inclination towards writing quality and performant code

• Experience in Agile development
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring and automation
• Experience working with AWS Cloud and Devops technologies (terraform , cloudformation, ansible)
• Experience running a production environment
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JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Software Engineer

It is a fish and seafood supply chain platform.It is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry.Building the future of meat and seafood supply chain.We are building smart supply chain to deliver the highest quality seafood and meat for the Indian consumer. Our innovations in process management and workforce orchestration along with strong industry credentials are enabling us to deliver the fastest harvest-to-fork in the industry.Our endeavor is to leverage experience across various parts of the value chain – farming, production, delivery to marquee brands – to deliver similar value to the Indian consumers.

Role

As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end to end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?

You are:

• A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
• Agile - welcome change, do as less as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
• Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
• Define the architecture, best practices and coding standards
• Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review 
• Motivate team members, coach junior members and extend goodwill to other employees

Must have

• Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
• 4-6 years of software industry experience
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving 
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software 
• Expertise in JavaScript, node.js based backend development
• Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns in Javascript
• Experience in building and scaling service-oriented architecture and microservices
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
• Experience with planning, execution and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
• Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
• Knowledge of AWS, specifically building scalable cloud-native architectures using services like Lambda, AWS Gateway, Aurora, etc
• Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git 
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Technical mentoring skills

Great to have

• Experience with GraphQL, meteor.js and other modern JS ecosystems
• Experience with blockchain and interest in ML
• Experience working on high traffic systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Diagnal Technologies is a fully owned subsidiary of Diagnal Inc, Hong Kong.  It’s a product company focusing on media and entertainment clients, creating Video on Demand apps for their customers. We are a team of OTT video solution specialists helping our customers build the new digital media industry in Asia Pacific and beyond. We create viable revenue generating video streaming products, enable our customers to gain business and operational insights through big data analytics and empower them to engage with their users more effectively through targeted marketing campaigns. Started its Development Center in Technopark Phase III campus and focusing on Indian and International clients.

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Job Description :

• 2 or more years of experience of server side web systems engineering and middleware in a project services or product engineering organisation
• Hands-on development experience using JavaScript on the Server Side with Node.js and associated frameworks.
• Published sites/systems that are now online
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time to get the job done at the high international quality levels we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• A solid understanding of networking, storage, operating/browser systems engineering as well as application/software systems performance optimisation and third party systems integration
• Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry

First round will be a Machine test and Aptitude, sharing it with this mail, which has to be completed in 2 days.This will be followed by technical discussion, CEO round and HR discussion.Hiring process will take 5-7 working days post completion of M/C test