Senior Python Backend Developer

Company Description

Recruiting Bond International is a next-generation Talent Intelligence, Executive Search, and Human Capital Advisory firm helping start-ups, enterprises, GCCs, and VC/PE-backed companies build high-impact global teams. It is a global leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), executive search, and workforce consulting, specializing in building transformative talent strategies.

From high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, Recruiting Bond partners with organizations across 50+ industries and 140+ countries to deliver fast, scalable, and inclusive hiring solutions. The company supports businesses in scaling teams, fostering innovation, and creating talent-first strategies to achieve their goals.

With deep expertise across Technology, FinTech, Healthcare, Real Estate, and Energy, Recruiting Bond is dedicated to building careers, companies, and futures by connecting world-class talent with high-impact opportunities globally.

About the Role

Our client is hiring a Backend Engineer (India-based, Remote) to design, build, and scale the core memory infrastructure powering production-grade AI agents.

This role is intended for an experienced engineer with 7–10 years of backend engineering experience, who has deeply internalized AI-native engineering practices and actively builds using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or comparable AI development tools as a core part of their workflow.

The hiring process is intentionally non-traditional and skill-first. There is no evaluation based on IIT pedigree, LeetCode performance, or conventional resume filters. Instead, the only evaluation criterion is: how you build with AI in real-world scenarios.

Candidates are expected to submit prompt logs or transcripts from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf demonstrating a feature or product they are proud of.

What You'll Own

• Build and scale backend systems powering the memory infrastructure of the product
• Own and deliver features end-to-end, integrating AI coding tools into the core development workflow
• Design, manage, and optimize database, storage, and retrieval systems for persistent memory
• Collaborate closely on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability engineering
• Contribute directly to product roadmap decisions based on real customer usage and production insights

Requirements

Must-Have

• 7–10 years of backend engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to build with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or comparable)
• Ability and willingness to submit prompt log transcripts from a feature or product you are proud of
• Strong Python fundamentals
• Strong PostgreSQL or comparable relational database fundamentals
• Comfort owning systems end-to-end in production
• Based in India, remote work from anywhere in the country

Nice-to-Have

• Prior AI infrastructure or developer tools product experience
• FastAPI fluency
• Open-source contributions in AI, memory, vector databases, or developer tools
• Prior experience in memory systems, RAG pipelines, or vector database engineering
• Public technical writing or conference talks on AI-native engineering practices

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Responsibilities: 

As a backend developer you would be responsible for:   

• Executing full lifecycle software development
• Architect and conceptualise the solution from initiation to completion meeting client requirements 
• Work with customer and their integration partners to ensure the product is well integrated 
• Programming well-designed, testable and efficient code 
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions 
• Work with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering and ML team) to craft custom solutions 
• Ensure clients change requests are addressed effectively in a timely manner 

Requirements:  

• 2+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Strong NoSQL and/or SQL database design and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency 
• Knowledge of RESTful API and SOAP Webservices paradigms 
• Experience with CRM/ERPs like systems SAP, Oracle, SalesForce, Servicenow, Workday, etc. would be a huge plus 
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment 
• Superior verbal and written communication skills 

Our Technology Stacks:  

• Demonstrated experience in our tech stack will be a big plus as it lets you get up and running with our product that much sooner 
• Node.js back-end with typescript 
• MongoDB as database 
• React to power our user interfaces (don't worry, we don't expect it for back-end) 
• NGINX as our web server 
• RabbitMQ 
• Redis 
• Elasticsearch 
• Docker 

• 3+ years of SDE work experience from Product based companies
• Experience in Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kafka, Hbase, AWS
  • Experience in Multi threading, distributed systems, Best practices of coding, scaling

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Senior Python Backend Developer 

Notice Period: 45 days / Immediate Joining

Banyan Data Services (BDS) is a US-based Infrastructure Services Company, headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. It provides full-stack managed services to support business applications and data infrastructure.  We are looking for a Senior Python Developer to join our development team based out of Bangalore. This teamwork on building the next-generation SAS application on the Hybrid Cloud platform.  

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join our rocket ship startup run by a world-class executive team. We are looking for candidates that aspire to be a part of the cutting-edge solutions and services we offer that address next-gen data evolution challenges.  

Key Qualificatisons

· Ability to write high-quality code efficiently.

· Design and develop new services/micro-services.

· Participate in planning and management of development process.

· Share architectural design vision with both technical and non-technical team members, including fellow engineers.

· Works on improvements in development toolset including testing frameworks, deployment scripts, and monitoring libraries.

· Experience solving complex problems and implementing solutions for performance and scalability.

· Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code with automated test coverage and corresponding documentation.

· Explore new latest relevant technology, techniques, frameworks, tools, methodologies, and processes.

· Comfortable working with all aspects of software development; including dev-ops, quality assurance, research, and design.

Requirements

· Minimum 3 years of experience as a Python Developer in application development.

· Experience in Developing applications/software using Python, developing web services using Django/Flask, working with REST API, and working with any databases technology.

· Strong in Reg expression and string handling.

· Strong in python programming and should be able to develop both API, UI, and backend validations.

· Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic and Implementation of security and data protection.

· Experience in Developing applications, software using Python, developing web services using Django, Flask, working with REST API, and working with any databases technology.

· Worked on open-source tools for logging, monitoring, search engine, caching, etc.

· Exposure to any of relation database technologies MySQL/Postgres/Oracle or any No-SQL database.

· Experience working on DevOps tools for continuous integration.

· Performed App servers, application deployments, web server deployments.

· Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

· Working knowledge of AWS, enough to be able to set up the environment for application development.

· Good good analytical and execution skills.

· Worked on open-source software for development, logging, monitoring, search engine, caching, etc.

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About the Company:

Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.

Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
• Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
• Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

What you bring:

• Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
• Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
• Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.