Senior Software Engineer -Backend (Python,C++)

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience in software development. The ideal candidate will be proficient in both frontend and backend technologies, capable of building scalable and high-performance applications, and have a problem-solving mindset. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, optimize, and maintain web applications.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain web applications ensuring performance and scalability.  

- Work with backend services using Node.js (Express.js/NestJS) and databases.  

- Develop and maintain frontend applications using React.js (minimum 1 year experience required).  

- Integrate APIs (RESTful & GraphQL) and third-party services.  

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices.  

- Ensure security, reliability, and optimization in applications.  

- Participate in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.  

- Work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.  

- Stay updated with modern development trends and contribute to technical improvements.  

Required Skills & Qualifications :  

- 4+ years of experience in full-stack development.  

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.  

- Hands-on experience with Node.js (Express.js/NestJS).  

- Minimum 1 year of experience working with React.js.  

- Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.  

- Proficiency in API design, development, and integration (RESTful, GraphQL).  

- Familiarity with version control tools (Git, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket).  

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.  

- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team.  

Good to Have : 

- Experience with Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).  

- Familiarity with Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).  

- Knowledge of testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, or Cypress).  

- Understanding of event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.
• Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.
• Team management : You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.

• Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.
• Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.
• You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object- oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.
• Total of 9+ years’ experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years’ experience in team management.
• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.