Senior Backend Engineer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE II) with over 3 years of experience to grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
•  Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework - Django
• Familiarity with backend automated testing tools and frameworks
• Experience with backend/API development
• Architect, develop and maintain backend libraries/codebase, database & server.
• Develop object-oriented software, with mastery of one or more relevant languages (Django).
• Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.
• Understanding the requirement of a client, document the scope and chart out a plan of implementing the scope
• Work with design team to give inputs related to the wire-frames and then the design along with incorporating Client Feedback
• Explore the difference between B2B and B2C projects before implementing the code
• Work in teams of 2-3 on various projects as per the requirement using git as version control
• Having good knowledge of APIs creation and database architecture
• Good Grasp in respective technology (Django)
• Documenting the process and main functions along the developing process
• Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing companies in India.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience required
• Strong hand on Django-Python
• Excellent knowledge of using the Git version control system and deployment via Git.
• You have creative visualization, critical thinking, deductive & pragmatic reasoning and can think out-of-the-box
• Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.
• A self-starter with demonstrated ability to take initiative, who can proactively identify issues/opportunities and recommend action.

• Developer will be responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

• Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks (Code igniter, Magento, Laravel etc).

• Should have experience in Word Press, Code igniter / Laravel or at-lease 1 MVC framework of PHP.

• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript JQuery.

• Good communication.

• Team worker.

• Ability to handle projects.

• Good problem-solving skills.

Database Administrator Lead - PostgreSQL

ABOUT Ashnik

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Monitoring database performance

· Optimizing Queries and handle escalations

· Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases

· Implement security features

· DR implementation and switch over

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

· Preferably have a working experience of 4 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.

· Experience of working in a production support environment

· Engineering or Equivalent degree

· Passion for open-source technologies is desired

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

· Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB

· Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x

· Server tuning

· Troubleshooting of Database issues

· Linux Shell Scripting

· Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism

· Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery

· A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.

· A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

LOCATION: Bangalore & Mumbai

Experience: 7 yrs plus

Package: upto 20 LPA

About us:

Swazei is a US-based remote software product experience company headquartered in San Diego, California. We are a bunch of technology enthusiasts from all over the world. We are called Lunavo because we believe that it is possible to bring the Moon to the Earth. We believe in making things possible. We are passionate about executing products with agile lean processes that work to create product experiences that drive results. We have created an ecosystem of talent spread across geographies and agile design and development processes to create software that delivers value for our clients. (www.swazei.com).

Joining: IMMEDIATE

WORK FROM HOME OPPORTUNITY

Job Requirements:

• Should have at least 3 yrs of experience with Codeignitor
• HandsOn Experience in Codeigniter must
• Experience in frameworks like Yii, Symphony, jQuery, etc.
• Proficiency in tools like AJAX, CSS, Java Scripting, etc.
• Experience in MySQL, Joomla, WordPress, etc.
• Should have worked as Team Lead
• should have Retail/Ecom/POS domain knowledge

Job Type: Full-time