Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Title: Senior Software Engineer – Python (Remote: Africa, India, Portugal)

Experience: 9 to 12 Years

INR : 40 LPA - 50 LPA

Location Requirement: Candidates must be based in Africa, India, or Portugal. Applicants outside these regions will not be considered.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software development with expertise in Python
• kubernetes is important
• Strong understanding of async frameworks (e.g., asyncio)
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django for microservices
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/AWS ECS
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaC tools (CDK, Terraform)
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
• Exposure to GenAI tools and LLM APIs (e.g., LangChain)
• CI/CD and DevOps best practices
• Strong communication and mentorship skills

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Python Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in developing web applications using Django and Flask, with experience in deploying and managing applications on AWS.

Proficiency in Django Rest Framework (DRF) and a solid understanding of machine learning concepts and their practical applications are essential.

Key Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain web applications using Django and Flask frameworks.

 Design and implement RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework (DRF).

 Deploy, manage, and optimize applications on AWS.

 Develop and maintain APIs for AI/ML models and integrate them into existing systems.

 Create and deploy scalable AI and ML models using Python.

 Ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of applications.

 Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.

 Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

 Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying and fixing issues in a timely manner.

 Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our applications remain current and competitive.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

 2+ years of professional experience as a Python Developer.

 Proficient in Python with a strong understanding of its ecosystem.

 Extensive experience with Django and Flask frameworks.

 Hands-on experience with AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.

 Strong knowledge of Django Rest Framework (DRF) for building APIs.

 Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks, such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

 Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

 Familiarity with front-end technologies (e.g., JavaScript, HTML, CSS) is a plus.

 Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

 Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn 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 Managers, 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+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• 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

Job Description: Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE :

As part of TIFIN's technology division, you will play a critical role in enabling the company's growth by developing highly scalable applications that provide practical solutions to clients in the financial services- domain. You will design, build, test, and maintain scalable and stable-the-shelf applications or custom-built technology solutions to meet business needs.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

• Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.
• Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor, and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are made, we commit fully.
• I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.
• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.
• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.
• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.
• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.
• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3-5 years of experience in software product development.
• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.
• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.
• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture.
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.
• Unit and Integration testing.
• Preferred exposure to the Finance domain.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and ESOP.
• Medical insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy and company-paid holidays.
• Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer for mindfulness events and 1:1 personal coaching.

Note on Location:

While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and this role is based out of Bangalore

TIFIN is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we value diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discrimination.

• To take lead and manage the backend team.
• Taking ownership and developing new micro services/systems to improve the products.
• Managing and adding on to our linux based content management system as well as our web servers.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with serverless architecture.
• Hands-on experience with products at a scale of > 50K DAUs.
• Should be able to architect and implement complex services/systems in a simple and scalable manner.
• Self starter with the ability to lead a team.
• Should be an expert in: Python. AWS Lambda, RDS and EC2 SQL databases, specifically postgresql. NOSQL Database, specifically dynamoDB.
• Should be able to write automated test cases for developed code.
• Should be proficient in the linux environment.
• Having the following skills will an added bonus: Experience developing with Neo4j databases. Firebase services. * Experience working with Docker and ECS.

• Your word counts You’ll get to play a key role in shaping up the product roadmap and will be involved in every stage
• Learning never stops With  advancing into the growth stage, there is immense potential and relevance to apply new developments you learn in your domain
• Sponsored training Do you want to learn something that helps improve your productivity or knowledge? We’ll sponsor that
• Remote friendly Even before Covid, half of us worked from home. Heck, you want to work from a village? Go for it.

• Healthy company culture We nurture a conducive environment for your personal and professional growth, and take extreme care to make sure you are happy at work
• Everyone gets to lead You own your idea, and you lead it’s execution
• Smart work is what matters with us We don’t count hours. We value getting the work done
• Teammates who will sing and jam with you

Designation : Senior Software Developer (Python)

Department : Software

Location : Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Office Time : 11am – 8pm / 12pm – 9pm

Skills and Experience:

• Should have relevant experience of 5-8 years
• Python programming experience 4+ years
• Django (python web framework) experience 2+ years
• Flask/FastAPI (API development) experience 1+ years
• Pgsql database experience 3+ years
• Machine learning (ML)/NLP experience 1+ years
• Good to have knowledge of OCR/Tesseract
• Good to have knowledge of LLM/BERT/GenAI
• Good to have knowledge of Celery for queuing
• Good to have knowledge of ML model/Python App deployment on Azure/AWS

• No day is the same - you will create technical designs that support varying client requirements
• You'll design and develop full-stack web applications using the latest web technologies, primarily Python and Django
• Write code/unit tests and be part of the test-driven development environment
• Leverage your skills in industry-standard tools to deliver weekly code releases
• You'll work in a no silos environment, frequently collaborating with global teams and roles across the organization

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience developing great web applications
• You can build products from scratch
• You have expertise in the Django backend framework
• You are fluent in the Python language
• You have dabbled in any one of these front-end frameworks - Angular, React, Vue
• You understand when to use NoSQL vs. relational database
• you understand reporting/dashboards framework
• You are comfortable working up and down the stack
• You are able to convert ideas into designs and build them out
• Benefit if you have worked with payment gateways such as visa, Mastercard, etc.
  
  

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement