
Senior Backend Engineer
at A US based eCommerce growth platform well funded startup.
grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.
They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

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You will develop and maintain the key backend code and infrastructure of the company stack. You will implement AI solutions like LLMs for various tasks such as voice-based interactive systems, chatbots, and AI web apps. Ability to see projects through from start to finish with good organizational skills and attention to detail. This is a perfect role for someone who likes to build state-of-the-art AI products and work with cutting-edge AI technologies like GPT, LLAMA, etc
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or relevant field.
- 4+ years experience in backend software development
- Be able to design high-throughput scalable backend systems
- Eagerness to learn applied AI technologies like LLMs, prompt engineering, etc
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP) and technologies like Docker
- Knowledge of Rest APIs, databases (mysql, mongo, vectorDB)
Job Responsibilities
✓ Perform the role of Technical Lead on assigned projects to drive solution design (especially backend) and API services development.
✓ Be the thought leader and champion for above mentioned technologies.
✓ Drive technical analysis for new projects including planning and driving proof-of-concepts, if needed.
✓ Drive tasks related to backend development by providing architectural and technical leadership to mid-tier and database developers.
✓ Conduct peer reviews as the lead into Git to confirmed that developed code meets acceptable standards and guidelines.
✓ Work closely with the rest of the leads, mid-tier development, front-end developers, database developers, etc. to ensure end-to-end integrity of the solution being developed.
✓ Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure reuse where applicable to increase productivity and throughput.
✓ Conduct technical interview to staff open positions in the backend team.
✓ Delegate work and assignments to team members
✓ Collaborate with their team to identify and fix technical problems
✓ Analyze users' needs and then finding applications to serve them
✓ Drive assigned tasks related to SOC 2 certification and ensure compliance to defined controls for areas under lead’s purview.
✓ Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges
✓ Prepare Technical design documents which would help the team to understand the technical flow
✓ Active participation in customer calls especially discussions related to Technical/Architectural and provide inputs.
Required Experience:
✓ Backend Lead around 14 years of experience
✓ Server less Computing Architecture
✓ NodeJS, MySQL, Jenkins, Python, GitLab Technologies
✓ Good knowledge of AWS Cloud
✓ Full cycle AWS implementation experience
✓ Project experience in development and maintenance support for AWS web service and Cloudbased implementations
✓ Experience leading teams of up to 10 + professionals
Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-moving environment
Educational Qualifications:
Engineering graduate or B. Tech/MCA with relevant major subjects like Computer Science
ython Developer responsibilities include:
- Writing effective, scalable code
- Developing back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrating user-facing elements into applications
Job brief
We are looking for a Python Developer to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products.
Python Developer responsibilities include 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements and skills
- Work experience as a Python Developer
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
- Team spirit
- Good problem-solving skills
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• Minimum 8+ Years of software development/programming experience.
• Any Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, not limiting to Engineering.
• Must be detail oriented.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Strong communication skills and fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Keywords are team player, proactive, attention to detail, independent, strong analytical skills and
the ability to adapt to new challenges
Responsibilities:
• 8+ Years of software development/programming experience
• 3+ Years of experience in Drop-wizard/Spring Boot Microservice
• Strong experience building multi-threaded applications using Java 8 and above
• Experienced in Agile development methodologies / Continuous Integration
• Java Design Patterns
• Amazon AWS EC2/S3/RDS
• OpenAPI, Contract first development experience
• Strong Java Concurrency (Java Threading)
• DDD (Domain Driven Design)
• Testing frameworks Like Mockito
• Test driven development experience
• JIRA, Git, Github and Github actions
Position description:
- Architecture & Design systems for Predictive analysis and writing algorithms to deal with financial data
- Must have experience on web services and APIs (REST, JSON, and similar) and creation and consumption of RESTful APIs
- Proficiently writing algorithms with Python/Pandas/Numpy; Jupyter/PyCharm
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Eg. MSSQL, MongoDB, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Implementing Machine Learning Models using Python/R for best performance
- Working with Time Series Data & analyzing large data sets.
- Implementing financial strategies in python and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.
Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree
Required Knowledge:
- Highly skilled in SQL, Python, Pandas, Numpy, Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling, Algorithm designing, OOPS concepts
- 2 - 7 years Full-Time working experience on core SQL, Python role (Non-Support)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, equivalent or higher education.
- Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.
As a Senior Software Engineer you have complete ownership of building out the Docexa product along with product people and the rest of the engineering team. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.
Your daily life
- Architecting of the whole platform
- Development of server-side logic
- Building new services and APIs
- Developing core business logic
- Maintenance of current APIs
- Improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we scale
Must-have skills
- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
- You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
- You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
- You are familiar with modern technology systems: AWS, load balancers, Kafka queues, caching, etc.
- You write understandable, testable and easy to maintain code
- You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
- Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
- Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
- 3-5 Years of experience in Backend Development.
- Must have experience in Python (FLASK framework).
- Have Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
- Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
- Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
- Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP or Azure.
- Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
- Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.











