Senior Backend Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

Job Position: Senior Technical Lead / Architect

Desired Skills: Python, Django, Flask, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services, JavaScript, Identity Security, IGA, OAuth

Experience Range: 6 – 8 Years

Type: Full Time

Location: Pune, India

Job Description:

Tech Prescient is looking for an experienced and proven Technical Lead (Python/Django/Flask/FastAPI, React, and AWS/Azure Cloud) who has worked across the modern full stack to deliver scalable, secure software products and solutions. The ideal candidate should have experience leading from the front — handling customer interactions, mentoring teams, owning technical delivery, and ensuring the highest quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of applications using the Python stack (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Architect and implement secure, scalable, and cloud-native solutions on AWS or Azure.
• Drive technical discussions, architecture reviews, and ensure adherence to design and code quality standards.
• Work closely with customers to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Oversee development teams, manage delivery timelines, and guide sprint execution.
• Design and implement microservices-based architectures and serverless deployments.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services; experience with Django Rest Framework (DRF) is a plus.
• Responsible for infrastructure planning, deployment, and automation on AWS (ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery and continuous improvement.
• Champion best practices in software security, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Provide technical mentorship to developers and lead project communications with clients and internal stakeholders.

Identity & Security Expertise:

• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and best practices.
• Experience in implementing Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions for user lifecycle management, access provisioning, and compliance.
• Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and related identity protocols for securing APIs and services.
• Experience integrating authentication and authorization mechanisms within web and cloud applications.
• Familiarity with Single Sign-On (SSO), MFA, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Exposure to AWS IAM, Cognito, or other cloud-based identity providers.
• Ability to assess and enhance application security posture, ensuring compliance with enterprise identity and security standards.

Skills and Experience:

• 6 – 8 years of hands-on experience in software design, development, and delivery.
• Strong foundation in Python and related frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Experience designing secure, scalable microservices and API architectures.
• Good understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Proven leadership, communication, and customer engagement skills.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is an added advantage.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and passion for learning new technologies.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

About Us

At Toddle, we are on a mission to help schools around the world deliver better learning. We are a team of 2x founders – before founding Toddle, we set up a network of preschools and schools in India. We continue to operate these preschools and schools as it gives us a unique vantage

point into the challenges faced by schools.

Our belief is that real impact in education can only be achieved by improving schools. That’s because children spend more than 80% of their learning time in school and schools are here to stay as schools are not just about teaching & learning, they also play a pivotal social role in our lives. So while most Edtech companies are trying to solve for education by working outside the school system, we think that the focus needs to be on taking our schools to the next level.

Our first product is a collaboration platform for teaching teams – we say that Toddle is to teaching, what Figma is to design. In its current version, Toddle empowers teachers to work together and better across all stages of the teaching-learning process – right from curriculum

planning and assessments to progress-tracking and family communication.

Here are some key facts about us:

1. Currently used by 1,000+ schools and 30,000+ teachers from 107 countries

2. Global revenue – 40% from Americas, 30% from EMEA, 30% from APAC

3. NRR > 115%

4. NPS > 70

5. Annual churn < 5%

6. Inbound led GTM motion fuelled by positive word of mouth

We love solving for

1. Creating delightful experiences that help teaching teams collaborate better & be more effective

2. Building tools that help teachers personalise learning for their students

3. Helping teachers around the world connect with each other meaningfully

We are at a series A stage right now, growing fast in the SAAS Ed-tech space, and have been funded by Sequoia, Matrix, Beenext, and Better Capital among others.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Backend engineer, one who partners with us in creating beautiful products for teachers, students and parents alike. As a Backend engineer, you will play a major role in designing, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In

this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.

Required Skills:

Frameworks & Technologies: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, JWT

Database: SQL query writing and optimisation.

Tools: Git basics, Scripting basics

Good to have:

DevOps experience with AWS, CI/CD

Working experience in PostgreSQL

Is this someone that looks like you?

• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree

• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)

• Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills

• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire - Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility

Excited about the role?

Here are a few more benefits:

1. Work from anywhere - Work from where you like - home, co-working space, cafe or the hills

2. Exposure to diverse learning opportunities

Work across different projects & teams to develop skills outside of your core expertise

Access to a small budget towards learning (e.g. books, online courses, substacks)

3. Uncapped leave policy

We trust you fully on your commitment to our mission and your judgement on planning your time and taking leaves:

No cap on the number of sick or casual leaves

Special paid leaves for childbirth, wedding etc.

And if in any circumstance you feel burnt out - there is a little something for this too!

No questions asked menstrual leave

4. Flexible working hours - Block “no-meeting hours” to enable uninterrupted focused work

5. No bell curve performance evaluations

6. And yes, a super fun and smart group of folks to collaborate and grow with.

Still with us? Here’s the process:

1. Shortlisting:

• Apply for the role.

• We’ll check out your application and assess it for a fit

• You will hear back from us within 2-3 days of the submission if shortlisted

2. Once shortlisted, we usually do about 2-3 rounds of interviews, a written assignment, and deep reference checks.

3. We value everyone’s time hence we make it a point to communicate proactively at all stages of your application. You can always reach out to us for any questions.

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
3. Experience with Elasticsearch
4. Experience building and deploying Docker containers
5. Strong general Linux experience
6. Extensive experience with REST APIs
7. Experience with microservice architecture
8. Experience with MongoDB
9. Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
10. Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.

Blok is a technology-first online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team have held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.

About Alore

Alore brings revenue velocity to businesses by being their dependable growth operating system.

For further information on what Alore can do for growing businesses, please visit http://alore.io">alore.io

Alore is based out of Singapore with an office at Bangalore.

Who should not apply for this job

• If you are looking for a 100% hike in your salary but can't commit to what value you will bring on the table
• If you never read books
• If you jump companies every 11-12 months
• If you are not comfortable working on Saturdays
• If you have less than 2 years of experience
• If you have more than 4 years of experience
• If you have never worked in a product-led company

CTC:

8.5-10.5 LPA based on experience and on performance in the interview round (70% Fixed - 30% Variable Incentive based on delivery schedule) (We do ZERO deductions since the salary will be paid from Singapore)

At this position you will:

• Get solid experience with high-load distributed architecture using REST and Kafka services.
• Work with automated CI/CD processes, AWS cloud, and VoIP.
• Implement and support microservices based on Spring MVC, Camel, MySQL, Mongo, and Kafka.

Requirement

• At least 1 year of experience with Java Core, Java EE, Spring Core, Spring Boot.
• Not more than 3 years of experience in Java Core, Java EE, Spring Core, Spring Boot.
• Deep understanding of SQL database technologies.
• Experience with Scrum / Agile methodology.
• Willingness to learn and explore new technologies.
• Git: merge, rebase, cherry-pick should be fluent.
• Good level of English B1 or higher.

It would be a nice bonus to have:

• Experience with distributed architecture.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, MongoDB, and Apache Camel.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku, etc.).

• Experience with client-side development (we use Angular8 for website).

• A degree in computer science.

Navia Life Care is looking for a young, energetic, and passionate backend developer for a full-time role, and available to join immediately. 

They will be expected to fulfill the following responsibilities :

Backend developer responsibilities :

- Design and build system backend on Python, Django and PostgreSQL

- Experience with Machine Learning, Data Analytics will be a Plus

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

- Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

- Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Handle software updates, patches, and bug fixes.

- Develop applications for time-sensitive projects while considering business/system requirements.

- Continually learn about new programming languages, operating system updates, and other information that will affect the functions of applications in development.

- Integrate with our front-end and mobile applications

- Participate in brainstorming sessions and have the chance to contribute innovative and original ideas to our technology, algorithms and product

Requirements :

- Minimum 1 to 5 years working experience in Python, DJango, and other related technologies

- Have published one or more Android apps on the Google Play store

- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs, WebRTC etc.

- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

- Excellent ability to develop and understand algorithms.

- Opportunity to join a fast-growing and funded healthcare startup, and direct reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.

- We provide a flexible and innovation-driven work environment, with a 5-day working week, and competitive compensation packages.