Senior Python Developer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer, you'll join the engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems require creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities.
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to backend services and frontend interfaces to ensure seamless user experiences.
• Implement critical integrations: Connect the platform with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors.
• Optimize for scale: Design systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations.
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and collaborate with cross-functional teams to address evolving client needs.

The Impact You'll Make

• Power business growth: Enable fast-growing B2B companies to scale billing and revenue operations efficiently.
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling high-value transactions with accuracy and compliance.
• Shape product direction: Join during a scaling phase where your contributions directly impact product evolution and customer success.
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep exposure to financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise-grade software development.
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help build infrastructure supporting next-generation pricing models, from usage-based to value-based billing.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks: FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js).
• Deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework.
• Strong experience with databases (SQL & NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and performance optimization.
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems with solid system design and clean code practices.

Domain

• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred.

Company Background

• Experience working in product companies or startups (preferably Series A to Series D).

Education

• Candidates from Tier 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, etc.) are highly preferred.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Developer with strong expertise in Python and Django to join our team. The ideal candidate should have prior experience working with payment/fintech companies and be passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs using Python/Django.
• Work on integrations with payment gateways, banking APIs, and financial services.
• Ensure system security, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with product managers, front-end developers, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience as a Backend Developer.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Django framework.
• Prior experience in payment/fintech domain (mandatory).
• Good understanding of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and database design (SQL/NoSQL).
• Knowledge of payment systems, PCI compliance, security protocols, and transaction workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of data security, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance in fintech.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on impactful projects in the payments and fintech domain.
• Collaborative and growth-driven work environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote Flexibilty with Hybrid working model 

• Degree in Computer Science (BS/MS), related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of industry experience in product development
• Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
• Must own a specific component of the product. Gathering requirements by working with product management. Working closely with development managers in defining external product interfaces
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must articulate various design approaches and design decisions clearly - within the team and across the teams.
• Must work with QA engineers to devise proper test constructs - unit testing and integration tests.

Our team is looking for experienced backend engineers to lead the development of our cloud-based software products and be responsible for major technical decisions associated with them and accountable for their successful execution.

In this position on the software engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to client and internal facing products. FarmSetu’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role.

• Design, implement and deploy back-end services
• Lead the delivery of software projects in a team-based environment
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, customer success representatives and other engineers to define, design, scope and ship new features using elegant solutions.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews
• Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation
• Participate in building the open engineering culture at FarmSetu

FarmSetu’s technology stack includes (but will not be limited to) Python, Django/Flask/FastAPI, GraphQL, Hasura, React, Flutter, Dart, Postgres, Celery, Docker, Git/Bitbucket to be deployed on Digitalocean/GCP infrastructure. We’re also quick to adopt better tools and processes, so you’ll be more than welcome to help shape our tool suite.

• 2+ years of experience developing applications at an enterprise scale using the front and back-end technologies in our stack
• Ability to develop robust and scalable backend services defined by GraphQL and RESTful APIs in Python using OpenAPI standards
• Familiarity with Cloud/SaaS architectures and how to build secure and maintainable services
• Strong understanding of unit testing, design patterns and usage of tools like profilers
• Experience with source control and continuous integration tools
• Worked in an Agile multi-functional team
• Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers
• Great oral and written communication skills

• Competitive salary
• Annual compensation reviews
• 12 days of annual leave plus public holidays
• Ongoing investment in you and your skills
• The right equipment for the job

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework Django
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Strong experience on Linux
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i. e. PostgresSQL)
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
• Experience on RESTful APIs
• Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
• Experience on Automation Builds using Jenkins and other popular frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable

JOB SUMMARY

     THE ROLE IN SUMMARY

Omnicom Media Group (OMG) has an immediate opening for a highly motivated and talented backend web application developer, specializing in AWS cloud technologies. In this position you will be joining an in-house development team whose primary responsibility is developing new features and functionality for multiple existing web applications and day to day troubleshooting and issue resolution. The ideal candidate will possess excellent critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and have proven experience using popular AWS services commonly used to build serverless web application architectures. Candidates are expected to have strong knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Python programming. Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Serverless Framework, Terraform or CloudFormation, etc. is also required. Excellent English communication skills are a must as you will be a part of a team working alongside our primary development team in addition to several business analysis and project managers. 5+ years of prior backend and Cloud web application and software development experience required.

KEY WORKING PRINCIPLES

• Passionate about modern web application architecture and programming. Hands on backend developer.
• Prior experience with modern RESTful API design and implementation. Microservices and single page web applications.
• Strong AWS knowledge, specifically serverless technologies (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB) as they relate to web application development.
• Excellent knowledge of web application security fundamentals (identity management, authentication, authorization, SSO).
• Designed several application databases in SQL and at least one non-relational database system, preferably
• Familiarity with DevOps practices including continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code in preferably Serverless Framework.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 5+ years professional software development experience.
• Bachler’s degree in computer science or related field.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• Backend Web Application Development
• Python
• AWS Services Including, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SES, DynamoDB, Serverless Framework
• AWS Identity and Access Management principles (IAM)
• SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora or comparable)
• GIT, JIRA, Agile / Scrum

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• AWS Cognito