Senior Backend Engineer

Job Title : Senior Python Backend Developer

Experience Required : 5+ Years

Location : Gurgaon

Joining : Immediate Joiner Preferred

Employment Type : Full-Time

Job Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Backend Developer with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Python and its modern web frameworks.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing scalable backend services, designing robust APIs, and ensuring optimal performance and security of backend systems.

Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, Flask, Streamlit, Starlette, REST API development, scalable backend services.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs and backend systems using Python.
• Work with frameworks such as Django, Flask, Streamlit, Starlette.
• Develop scalable and high-performance backend services.
• Collaborate with frontend developers and product teams to deliver seamless integrations.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Ensure code quality through automated testing and code reviews.

Required Skills :

• Minimum 5 years of backend development experience in Python.
• Strong expertise in Django, Flask, Streamlit, and/or Starlette.
• Proven experience with API design and development.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, data modeling, and scalability best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud environments is a plus.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with async programming (e.g., using FastAPI, Starlette).
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other relational/noSQL databases.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.

We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer with strong experience in building, scaling, and optimizing server-side systems. The ideal candidate is proficient in Node.js, FastAPI (Python), and database design, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and FastAPI

Build robust data models and optimize performance for SQL and NoSQL databases

Architect and deploy backend services on GCP/AWS, leveraging managed cloud services. 

Implement clean, modular, and testable code with proper CI/CD and observability (logs, metrics, alerts)

Ensure system reliability, security, and high availability for production environments

Requirements:

2–5 years of backend development experience

Strong proficiency in Node.js, FastAPI, REST APIs, and microservice architecture

Solid understanding of PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/Redis or similar NoSQL systems

Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, and modern DevOps workflows

Experience with caching, queueing, authentication, and API performance optimization

Good to Have:

Experience with event-driven architecture, WebSockets, or serverless functions

Familiarity with Kubernetes or Terraform

Job Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India

Industry: Artificial Intelligence

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. 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. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring 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.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Solution Oriented Mindset

• Assist project in all technical aspects of tooling and DevOps
• Proactively lead tools new versions release cycle and documentation
• Proactively identify risks related to application /deliverables and propose a mitigation plan
• Provide custom solutions as per customer requirements

Autonomy & Problem Solving Mindset

• Work in complete autonomy to deliver project deliverables, for advanced technical deliverables, with required level of quality
• Must have troubleshooting skills

Agile Mindset

• Contribute to improvement of internal process, tooling, and quality process
• Design, build and collect technical materials as part of project executions in a spirit of reusability for future engagements and maintain knowledge on best practices, tools, and reusable components for CAST analysis

About the Role

If you are interested in developing the future architecture of Uber's Rider stack by building its core building blocks, join the Rider Backend Platform team. We build backend architectural components and frameworks comprising of services, libraries, state storage and other building blocks that aim to optimise the core Rider flow and foundational features that are shared among all rider products, including but not limited to, Uber Rider app, UberLite, m.uber.com, etc.

What You'll Do

• Work with Rider product engineering teams to identify, design and build solutions that help scale Rider services and platforms.
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence design for scalability and testability
• Work with smart and motivated teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Build elegant backend platform components for high throughput and low latency distributed systems.
• Solve challenging problems with cutting edge design and algorithms.

What You'll Need

• 4+ years Strong meaningful Individual contributor experience as a software engineer
• Design: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for design. You can discuss the tradeoff between design choices, both on a theoretical level and on an applied level.
• Strong coding/debugging abilities: You have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Go and Java.
• Fast learner: We're looking for software engineers who thrive on learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team -- that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement.

• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

About the Team: **Rider Backend Platform**

Builds the core building blocks needed to power the rider experiences on the different Rider facing apps including the core Uber app, Uber Lite, Web as we move on to become the preferred transportation platform for millions of riders all over the world.

Uber

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.