Senior Backend Engineer

Position: Lead Python Developer

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem. Position Summary We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python, and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.

Job Responsibility

● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.

● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.

● Work with relational and non-relational

databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.

● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.

● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.

● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.

● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.

● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.

Job Requirements

● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.

● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).

● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)

● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows

● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.

● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).

● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).

● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and Elastic Search.

● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.

● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.

● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.

Job Exposure:

● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources

● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications ● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement

● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution 

Online group buying platform that helps people connect with likeminded people who want to buy the same item/product at a discounted price.

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA and
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as
• Lead the design and architecture of software
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration.

• Skills required: JAVA, Python (Flask and Django), Spring/Spring Boot, React, Hibernate,
• 2+ years of experience in Java and Python
• Linux, REST, Kafka, Mysql,, AWS, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch), CI/CD
• Good experience in Java and/or Python based
• Experience in designing databases and system
• Experience in building products from scratch at well-funded start-ups

Django Python framework

PostgreSQL database

• Coordinating with development teams to find out the needs of the application.
• Using the Python programming language to create scalable code.
• Application testing and bug fixing.
• Creating the back-end elements.
• Utilising server-side logic to incorporate user-facing components.
• Integrating storage methods for data.
• Design and implementation of high-performance, low-latency applications.
• Working in concert with front-end programmers.
• Upgrading the functionality of current databases.
• Creating digital technologies to track online activity.

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

• 2+ years of Hands-on experience in Python, Django, Flask, Bottle, Design Patterns, Web Services (SOAP/HTTP, REST APIs)
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Postgress, MongoDB.
• Experience with cache-store / message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Experience with AWS
• Experience in front-end development using react.js is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial /bitBucket.
• DevOps knowledge to deploy code in production and hands-on experience with docker / Kubernetes.
• Self-motivated and a good team player.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from a reputed Institute