Senior Backend Engineer

Job Title: Python Developer (Full-time)

Location: Gurgaon, Onsite

Working Days: 5 days

Experience Required: 5+ Years

 About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Python-based web frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Starlette. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing and building scalable APIs and services in a high-performance environment. This is a great opportunity to work on backend systems powering critical products at scale.

 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Python
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery
• Write clean, testable, and efficient code
• Troubleshoot and debug production systems

 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development using Python
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Django, Flask, or Starlette/FastAPI
• Proven experience in API development and integration
• Experience building scalable and high-performance systems
• Familiarity with async programming (especially for Starlette/FastAPI)
• Good understanding of database design (SQL/NoSQL)
• Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker is a plus
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Role Overview:

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer SaaS product. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Delivery & Release Management: Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments.

·        Technical Design & Architecture: Lead technical design and high-scale architecture for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

·        Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team.

·        Requirement to Delivery: Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery.

·        Product Quality: Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high product quality and reliability.

·        Troubleshooting & Support: Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction.

·        Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack.

Requirements:

·        Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role.

·        Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.

·        Experience delivering multi-customer SaaS product releases, including phased and customer-specific configurations.

·        Strong track record of ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.

·        Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.

·        Experience in mentoring and managing engineering teams to drive aligned delivery and high performance.

·        Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ).

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams.

·        Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.

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

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who can help make our desktop app even more spectacular for the highest performing professionals globally. She / he should be versatile and should have a good base with Golang, NodeJs and Python

About Track

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The Team

We are a small, global and efficient team and speed is part of everything we build and do

We are backed by amazing investors from India and US who have cofounded startups which had massive exits and the investors are currently on boards of Unicorn startups.

The Founder has over 12 years of experience in technology, studied and worked in the US for 8 years, and has cofounded a startup before.

Expected Skills :- 

Primary expertise: Golang, NodeJs, Python 

• Our backend was written in Nodejs and some parts converted to Golang. We want to switch completely
• Knowing Golang well is important 
• You should know python / Django at a reasonable level
• Ability to work with GCP and AWS environments
  Worked with Amazon services like SNS, SQS and Google services like Firebase FCM
• Ability to execute rapidly

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies