


Job Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and 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 Lead, 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:
- Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
- 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.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ 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.

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One Impression is India's largest and first of its kind Full-Stack IMaaS (Influencer Marketing as a Service) Platform. We help brands manage high-impact influencer marketing campaigns. We are active in over 12 countries including India, US, Australia, the Middle East, etc, and have a network of over 6.5 Mil + influencers across Instagram & YouTube. Our creator network is one of the largest ranging from top celebrities to nano creators in 10+ languages.
Backed by some of the top investors in the country including founders of Livspace, MamaEarth, Vedantu, Wow Skin Sciences, OML, People Group etc. as well as celebrities like KL Rahul, Zakir Khan, Masoom Minawala, our ultimate vision is to capture 25% of the global media spend by becoming the world's de-facto influencer marketing platform.
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We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Backend Engineer to join our team. The role involves developing and maintaining backend systems using Django and Python, while also managing on-premises hardware and deployments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our software is reliably configured, deployed, and maintained in an on-prem environment.
Key Responsibilities
Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python (Django or Flask).
On-Prem Deployment: Install, configure, and manage software on on-premises hardware, including servers and networking equipment.
Database Management: Design database schemas, write efficient queries, and optimize data access layers (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
API Integration: Implement and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services.
Troubleshooting & Debugging: Diagnose and resolve application and infrastructure issues to ensure high availability.
Version Control & CI/CD: Use Git for version control and contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
Security & Compliance: Work with the team to ensure software and infrastructure meet security and compliance requirements.
Documentation: Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for your code, configurations, and on-prem deployment processes.


• Writing and testing code, debugging programs and integrating applications with third-party
web services. To be successful in this role, you should have experience using server-side logic
and work well in a team.
• Ultimately, you'll build highly responsive web applications that align with our business needs.
• Write effective, scalable code Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and
overall performance Integrate user-facing elements into applications.
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical
solutions
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask,etc)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
Requirements
• 1 to 5 years of experience as a Python Developer
• Hands on experience of Flask, Django or Gin or Revel or Sanic
• Knowledge of design/architectural patterns will be considered as a plus
• Experience working in an agile development environment with a strong focus on rapid
software development
• Experience in AWS or similar cloud technologies
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Proven ability to complete assigned task according to the outlined scope and timeline
• Experience with messaging frameworks such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMq
• Experience with Elastic Search
• Willingness to learn new and different technologies


Requirements:
• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.
• Should have work experience on the following stacks/libraries: Flask
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.


- Asp.Net Core
- Microservices
- An added advantage to a candidate who has familiarity with PostgreSQL / MySQL
Job Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain software applications.
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.
Job Summary:
We want a techie at heart. Someone who is happy and curious to work on all aspects of software development.
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for feature design, development, and continuously optimizing our tech stack.
- We are looking for an experienced software engineer with at least 5 years of experience in a startup or product environment. Ideally you have been involved in all aspects of software development from requirements gathering to design, development, deployment and post-release support. We are looking for all-round technical maturity. Our tech stack is Angular, Spring boot and Django/Python.
Key Skills
Java
SpringBoot
PostgreSQL/MySQL
Git
AWS
REST api design
Experience integrating with external APIs
Good applied understanding of Object Oriented Programming
Good database modeling and SQL knowledge.
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Responsibilities and Duties
Build out features across the stack : backend, API design and integration, database optimization , microservices, plugins, queues etc
Fix bugs and write automated tests
Maintain and upgrade our Tech Stack
Translate requirements to design and write/present articulate software design.


- We are looking for a seasoned Backend engineer to manage our web infrastructure. Successful candidates will have a minimum of 2 years of recent experience with all the skills listed below.
- Our project entails implementing our pre-approved UI, constructing our API, connecting the two, and setting up our server infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Pixel-perfect- implementation of our approved user interface
- Design and construction of our REST APIs
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Maintaining the current web services by making regular updates to improve security and performance
Skills :
1) Experience :
- >1+ years experience in Backend development, preferably in Python [Flask].
- > 1+ years experience in writing REST APIs in Python/Flask.
- > Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions
- > Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
2) Experience with SQL databases
3) Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests
4) Proficiency with Git.
Responsibilities
- You will design and develop large scale distributed services
- You will analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
- You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership
- You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
- You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
- You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight
- You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
- You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.
Requirements
- You have 1 - 9 years of experience in software development.
- You have designed and scaled up the system.
- You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python and Django
- You understand the business impact of your decisions.
Good To Have
- You have prior experience in fintech companies
Traits We Are Looking For
- Experience in a specific tech stack doesn't matter for us.
- The general engineering mindset and aptitude is what matters more.
- Technically strong and curious.
- Should have a hacker mindset and should love exploring new technologies.
Desired Skills and Experience
Java, Python, Data Structures, Algorithms

- Write clean, well- designed code
- Produce detailed specifications
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.
Requirements :
- Knows best practices for front- end development
- Strong knowledge of Javascript APIs.
- Must have experience in building web applications in Python/Django
- Able to handle multiple databases in Django.
- Knows how to do multiple environments (production/ staging)setup in Django.
- Knows how to set up/deploy Django apps in AWS.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, postgresql mysql
- Familiar with Docker/Docker- compose

HealthifyMe is a Health Tech Startup on a mission to make healthy living easy, fun and affordable for everyone by providing tech-enabled solutions. Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is now India's largest and most loved health/fitness app with over 3 million users. The company helps consumers manage their health and fitness with diet and exercise tracking through a mix of technology intervention and human experts/coaches backed with artificial intelligence. HealthifyMe is co-founded by Tushar Vashisht (UPenn graduate, ex UID) and Sachin Shenoy (ex Google), and was incubated by Microsoft Accelerator. HealthifyMe is the highest rated app on Google Play with a rating of 4.6/5 and has been featured by Google and Apple multiple times for its quality benchmarks. The company, delivers measurable results on eating habits, fitness, and weight and is a platform of choice by leading Corporates and Healthcare partners in India.
Leadership Skill
- Technically hands on.
- Have previous experience of leading teams.
- Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
- Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
- Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
- Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
- Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.
Technical Skills
- Loves solving technically hard problems.
- Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
- Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache.
- NoSQL experience is good to have.
- Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it.
- Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
- Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.
Look forward to
- Working with a world-class team.
- Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings.
- Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie
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