
Senior Backend Engineer (Immediate joiners only)
at Seed Funded Product-based startup in Bangalore
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
- Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
- Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
- Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
- Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
- Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
- Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
- Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
- Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.

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- Design and implement a full-stack web application using Python Django framework and ReactJS.
- 1+ years of experience in building and deploying web applications.
- Experience in designing and using RESTful APIs.
- Basic knowledge in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, , ReactJS, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Understanding of databases, SQL and non-relational, plus the Django ORM.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Experience in web mark-up like HTML and CSS.
- Experience with data structure libraries.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
- A knack for bench marking and optimization.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as NPM etc.
- Strong knowledge of Git version control.
- Experience deploying Python applications into production.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications using Django framework in Python.
- Create and use the REST APIs for communicating with other apps.
- Assess and prioritize feature requests and work in Agile framework.
- Implementation of security and data protection algorithms.
- Integration of data storage solutions like databases, key-value stores, blob stores, S3 etc.
- Improve the functionality of existing systems and applications.
- High commitment to work and taking ownership of deliverables.
- Help to research and influence our path forward with strategic technology initiatives.
Job Role: Python Developer
Experience: 6 to 10 Years
Location: Bangalore
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, and deploy Python applications.
- Build and maintain front-end components using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS.
- Collaborate with teams to implement new features and optimize systems.
- Ensure code quality, security, and performance.
Required Skills:
- Strong Python experience (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).
- Proficiency in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS.
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and Git.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Bonus: RESTful APIs, AWS/Azure, CI/CD pipelines.
🔧 Key Skills
- Strong expertise in Python (3.x)
- Experience with Django / Flask / FastAPI
- Good understanding of Microservices & RESTful API development
- Proficiency in MySQL/PostgreSQL – queries, stored procedures, optimization
- Solid grip on Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
- Comfortable working with Linux & Windows environments
- Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
- Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes is a plus
Senior Python Developer (6 + Years Experience)
Core Skills:
- Strong Python experience and understanding of modern design patterns, abstractions, object oriented programming at scale.
- Strong understanding of event based/async architectures (Kafka, WebSockets)
- Database interactions
- Working understanding of infrastructure as code (terraform ) and how develop code that will be deployed by IAC.
- Working understanding of Kubernetes including containerization, deploying, debugging services running on k8s.
Preferred:
- Working GCP experience including GKE, GCE, Cloud functions/cloud run, IAM.
- Git required
- CICD and automation experience; stack includes Jenkins, Terraform, Argo, Harness.
Period: 6 months+
JD:
● 4-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications.
● Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems.
● Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good
understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices.
● Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least
one scripting language, preferably Python.
● Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision
is right/wrong, and so on.
● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
● Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic.
● Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
● Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana,
Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc.
● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and
dependencies.
● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work
on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.
This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 5 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
- Strong communication skills.
Experience:
- Min 5 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
Hands -on experience with the following technologies is needed:
- Good Knowledge of Python & Django Framework.
- Experience in Git or any Version control systems.
- Experience in SQL Databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of NoSQL Databases like Mongodb.
- Worked on Django based live projects.
- To implement microservices using Django rest framework.
- Handling various technical aspects like coding of modules using the given design specifications
- Debugging and fixing the defects as well as analyzing its root cause.
- Deployment(AWS) and monitoring of the live project.
- Mentoring junior developers.
Knowledge/Experience of AWS will be a big plus
Preferred Qualifications:
B-Tech-IT/B-Tech -CSE/BCA or any degree in the relevant field
Required Experience:
3 – 6 Years
We are looking for a Sr. Backend Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be
part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle,
from conception to deployment.
As a Sr. Backend Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end
coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team
player with a knack for visual design and utility.
Responsibilities
Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side and server-side architecture
Build the scalable applications using microservice architecture.
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Write effective APIs
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Create security and data protection settings
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
Requirements
Proven experience of 2+ years as Backend Developer or similar role
Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
Familiarity with common stacks, and excellent understanding of MVC architecture.
Good Knowledge of. Python and Django framework, having experience with Flask, FastAPI and
Falcon is a plus.
Experience with NoSQL, Elastic Search, Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ.
Experience with databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g.
Apache/Nginx) and UI/UX design
Knowledge of digital marketing tools
Familiarity with Google AdWords API, Google Analytics API, Facebook Ads API etc.
Familiarity of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,
jQuery)
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail
Organizational skills
An analytical mind
Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, 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
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.











