
Position: Senior Backend Developer (Python + FastAPI + GCP)
Engagement Type: Remote
Location: Remote
Position Overview:
Seeking a Senior Backend Developer with 6–8 years of experience to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems using Python and FastAPI on Google Cloud Platform, ensuring high performance, reliability, and secure deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and build scalable, high-performance backend systems using Python (FastAPI) with clean architecture and modular design principles.
• Architect and implement microservices and RESTful APIs ensuring reliability, security, and optimal response times.
• Own end-to-end system design from schema definition to deployment with focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
• Manage DevOps pipelines for CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure automation using Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage.
• Collaborate with frontend, AI, and data engineering teams to define robust API contracts and efficient data flows.
• Implement observability practices including logging, tracing, and alerting using Stackdriver, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Conduct code reviews, system design sessions, and performance tuning for production-grade deployments.
Required Skills:
• Strong expertise in Python with a focus on FastAPI.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with API design and authentication (OAuth2, JWT).
• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Compute Engine, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and IAM policies.
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Build.
• Hands-on experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Firestore and ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy or Tortoise ORM.
• Knowledge of system monitoring, alerting, and logging in distributed systems.
Preferred (Bonus) Skills:
• Experience with API Gateway, Redis, or Celery for async processing.
• Familiarity with message queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Understanding of DevSecOps and cloud security best practices.
• Experience working with cross-functional product and data teams.

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Total Experience: 2+ years
Mode Of Hire: Permanent
Required Skills Set (Mandatory): Object Oriented Programming, data structures, algorithms, software design, and database systems.
Desired Skills (Good if you have): Springboot, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Crawling/ Web Scraping, Programming languages(Java, Python, C, C++)
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Managers and other Engineers to help define, scope, and implement high-quality features that solve critical user needs.
- Break down requirements into architecture and deliver code, while keeping operational issues in mind.
- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
- Write clear documentation so that other engineers can jump in and get things done.
- Actively participate in design and code reviews.
- Help take Tracxn to the next level as a world-class engineering team
Job Requirements
- Experience with building backend services. Strong algorithm and CS skills.
- Experience designing and implementing large‐scale distributed systems.
- Experience with multiple programming languages (Java, Python) and data stores (MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc)
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and in ownership, and results-oriented culture.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Culture
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
About Tracxn
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem. We are a team of 800+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team
Tracxn's Technology team is 50+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each of which owns one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team as compared to an individual.
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to Spring, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, ReactJS, Next.js, Node, AWS Lambda, Ansible, etc.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
· Good understanding of OOPS, design principles and design patterns.
· C# development experience.
· Experience with WCF is required.
· Experience of working with web API is required.
· Experience with Windows services and Winforms will be useful.
· Experience of working with .NET Core is useful. Some exposure is expected.
· Experience of working with MS SQL Server.
· Experience of working with micro services will be useful.
· Experience of working with any queueing middleware like MSMQ, Rabbit MQ, WMQ will be useful.
· Exposure to cloud provisioning will be useful, in particular Azure.
· Exposure to security vulnerabilities and top 10 from OWASP will be useful.
· Exposure to front end technologies will be useful. Though it’s secondary but any experience with
SPA libs and frameworks in particular will be useful. Experience with either Angular or React will be
useful.
· Experience with any or all stated tools – TFS, Git, SOAP UI, Postman, Fiddler,
· Experience with CI/CD devOps tooling and practices is useful.
Soft skills required
· Good communication skills, both verbal and written. S/he should be able to articulate well.
Required Core Tech Stack:
We're looking for engineers with hands-on experience across most of the following technologies:
- Python Backend Development (3+ years)
- FastAPI (2+ years of production experience required)
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Docker
- Celery or equivalent async task queues
- REST APIs & Microservices
- AWS/GCP
- GitLab CI/CD
The selected Sr. Backend engineer will ship the backbone that powers 4 million + learners in 64 countries—owning APIs that crunch 1 billion learning events & the AI that supports it with <200 ms latency.
What You'll Do:
At LearnTube, we’re pushing the boundaries to revolutionize how the world learns. As a Senior Backend Engineer, your roles and responsibilities will include:
- Shipping Micro-services – Build FastAPI services that handle ≈ 800 req/s today and will triple within a year (sub-200 ms p95).
- Power Real-Time Learning – Drive the quiz-scoring & AI-tutor engines that crunch millions of events daily.
- Design for Scale & Safety – Model data (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, SQS) and craft modular, secure back-end components from scratch.
- Deploy Globally – Roll out Dockerised services behind NGINX on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) and GCP (GKE) via Kubernetes.
- Automate Releases – GitLab CI/CD + blue-green / canary = multiple safe prod deploys each week.
- Own Reliability – Instrument with Prometheus / Grafana, chase 99.9 % uptime, trim infra spend.
- Expose Gen-AI at Scale – Publish LLM inference & vector-search endpoints in partnership with the AI team.
- Ship Fast, Learn Fast – Work with founders, PMs, and designers in weekly ship rooms; take a feature from Figma to prod in < 2 weeks.
What makes you a great fit?
Must-Haves (Applicants without these skills are unlikely to move forward):
- 3+ yrs Python back-end experience (FastAPI)
- Strong with Docker & container orchestration
- Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or GCP (GKE / Compute) in production
- SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB) + You’ve built systems from scratch & have solid system-design fundamentals
Nice-to-Haves
- k8s at scale, Terraform,
- Experience with AI/ML inference services (LLMs, vector DBs)
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Why LearnTube?
- Build AI products at global scale – Your work will power learning experiences for 4M+ learners across 64 countries.
- Work directly with experienced founders – Collaborate closely with founders who are deeply involved in product and engineering decisions, giving you ownership and a direct impact on the product roadmap.
- Learn fast – Join a high-performing team where you'll own features end-to-end and solve challenging backend and distributed systems problems.
- Recognized AI startup – LearnTube is a Google Top 20 AI Startup and part of Google's AI First Startup Accelerator, with access to cutting-edge AI technology and mentorship.
Why Work With Us?
At LearnTube, we believe in creating a work environment that’s as transformative as the products we build. Here’s why this role is an incredible opportunity:
- Cutting-Edge Technology: You’ll work on state-of-the-art generative AI applications, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, multimodal AI, and real-time systems.
- Autonomy and Ownership: Experience unparalleled flexibility and independence in a role where you’ll own high-impact projects from ideation to deployment.
- Rapid Growth: Accelerate your career by working on impactful projects that pack three years of learning and growth into one.
- Founder and Advisor Access: Collaborate directly with founders and industry experts, including the CTO of Inflection AI, to build transformative solutions.
- Team Culture: Join a close-knit team of high-performing engineers and innovators, where every voice matters, and Monday morning meetings are something to look forward to.
- Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s redefining education for millions of learners and making AI accessible to everyone.
About Klevu:
Klevu is a discovery experience suite that revolutionises online shopping. It provides a range of SaaS based solutions, that are deep rooted in AI-ML technology and delivered via cloud for online retailers. Klevu is a global Finnish company that prides in diversity, great team, excellent partner network and global customer footprint. Learn more from www.klevu.com
Experience: 5+ years
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Responsibilities:
- Build, scale and maintain various services on the Klevu platform
- Design and develop solutions for business needs on the Klevu platform
Must have skills:
- 4+ years on experience with Java
- Experience in Web application development on Spring framework
- Experience working with database technologies – RDBMS or NoSQL
- Ability to communicate effectively within and outside the engineering team
- Familiar with agile software development process
Nice to haves:
- Experience in Hibernate, MySql, Redis, ActiveMQ or Kafka
- Experience in UI Frameworks like Jquery, React, Angular or equivalent
- Experience in REST API development
- Experience in debugging issues and checking production logs
- Experience working in eCommerce and/or SAAS startups
- Experience working with microservices architecture
What we offer:
- Being part of one of the most exciting search technology company from Nordics with global footprints
- Work with a team in 3 continents (North America, Europe, Asia)
- Excellent work culture, hands-on, result oriented
- Good salary and flexible hours
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- Linux
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Java 8
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a skilled and experienced Java Developer to join our team. As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our applications using Java, Spring framework, and other related technologies. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles, as well as experience with a variety of technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, and cloud computing.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain our applications using Java, Spring framework, and other related technologies
- Write clean, efficient, and optimized code for applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
- Develop and maintain backend systems using Spring framework
- Work with databases, including SQL and NoSQL
- Ensure code quality and maintain documentation
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in Java development
- Work with other teams to deploy and maintain applications
Requirements:
- 3-7 years of experience in Java development
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles
- Experience with Java, Spring framework, and related technologies
- Familiarity with databases, including SQL and NoSQL
- Knowledge of cloud computing is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
Key Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java programming language
- Experience with Spring framework, including Spring Boot and Spring MVC
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Experience building RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of microservices architecture
- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases such as MySQL and Postgres
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Redis
- Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of software development principles and experience with SDLC methodologies
- Experience with Git version control and build tools such as Maven and Gradle
- Familiarity with front-end technologies such as Angular and React is a plus
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks
- Experience with test-driven development and unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins is a plus
- Familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis is a plus
- Working knowledge of design patterns and software architecture principles is a plus.
As one of our Backend Software Engineers, you will be part of the team responsible for the development of all server-side logic, the definition and maintenance of the database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end developers.
What will you be engaged in?
Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalable design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
Architect, develop and operate services deployed to millions of users
Collaborate with the DevOps team for the necessary infrastructure needed for services to run on the cloud platform
Write backend services and Restful APIs
Be in charge of data migration, transformation, and scripting
Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, scalability, and performant applications
Implement security and data protection
Manage web apps that impact millions of users
What do we expect from you?
3 + years of experience building large-scale backend systems
Knowledge of MVC concepts
Knowledge of web applications systems
A good understanding of data pipelines, data lakes, and data ingestion is Plus
Strong understanding of Database management (MSSQL, SQL)
Strong understanding of NoSQL Database (MongoDB)
Strong understanding of RESTful API
Understanding of JavaScript and Typescripts
Understanding of Node.js frameworks and Nest JS Framework
Passion for building high performance, high throughput, low latency frameworks
Problem-solving mindset
Understanding of GIT Source code
Good at JavaScript and passionate about solving challenges using JavaScript.
Good Understanding of Pub/SUB (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
Fintech Industry experience is plus
Job Description :
A candidate who has a strong background in the design and implementation of scalable architecture and a good understanding of Algorithms, Data structures, and design patterns. Candidate must be ready to learn new tools, languages, and technologies
Skills :
Microservices, MySQL/Postgres, Kafka/Message Queues, Elasticsearch, Data pipelines, AWS Cloud, Clickhouse/Redshift
What you need to succeed in this role
- Minimum 6 years of experience
- Good understanding of various database types: RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB, etc
- Ability to build highly stable reliable APIs and backend services.
- Should be familiar with distributed, high availability database systems
- Experience with queuing systems like Kafka
- Hands-on in cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP/Azure
- Highly plus if know one or more of the following: Confluent ksql, Kafka connect, Kafka streams
- Hands-on experience with data warehouse/OLAP systems such as Redshift, click house and added plus.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Benefits of joining us
- Ability to join a small and growing team, and work with some of the coolest people you've ever met
- Opportunity to make an impact, and leave your mark on this organization.
- Competitive compensation, with the ability to shape your own career trajectory
- Go Extra Mile with Learning and Development
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality on content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.
Job Description :
We are currently building a next generation consumer tech product at the intersection of AI ML through Mobile and Commerce. The product requires building proprietary frameworks using latest technologies.
We have an urgent requirement of a Backend Developer/ Fresher/ Intern, who would become core member of our Product Team, is a great problem solver, can learn quickly, and communicate clearly.
Must Have Skill Set :
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Efficient software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
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Individual contributor with strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Should be able to work under tight deadlines and stretch as and when required
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Self starter with the ability to research solutions independently and solve problems Strong, object oriented design and coding skills, c++/Java on a Linux platform Preferably with internship experience of Product based companies Working on products with strong Knowledge of SpringBoot and REST API frameworks Strong knowledge of Data structures and Algorithms
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Hands on expertise in Database/Datastores - MongoDB, MYSQL, Elastic Search, Redis and Kafka will be a big plus
Key Responsibility :
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Tasks will include complete responsibility for application design, code development, testing, deployment and maintenance
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Develop code as part of an agile team to deliver new features enhancements Design and develop REST APIs
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Follow approved life cycle methodologies, create design documents, and perform program coding and testing Develop plans outlining steps and time tables for developing programs and communicate plans and status to management
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Work independently or with minimal supervision and utilize knowledge, experience and judgment to accomplish well defined goals
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You should be at ease with maintaining cloud instances on AWS and other cloud services
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You have experience in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues End to End ownership of various applications and microservices
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Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services that serve millions of users
What You Get :
1. You work with a team of passionate folks who love design and technology 2. Immense learning and growth opportunities in small, multi functional, tightly
knit teams
3. Flexible work timings; 5 days a week
4. Accelerated learning
5. Huge Responsibility early in your career which will come handy in future
6. Ownership and independence
Qualifications :
B.Tech/ MCA in Computer Science or equivalent
About QuHu
QuHu is an audio first content platform where users can create, share & distribute their content and the discovery happens via a feed based on interest graph. We aim to build an audio ecosystem with a global presence consisting of audio-based social networks and audio communities.
At QuHu, we want to cultivate a vibrant and growing online UGC audio community and interactive audio entertainment platform where users are encouraged to create, share, discover and enjoy audio, and experience immersive and diversified entertainment features through audio. QuHu envisions a global audio ecosystem – a place where everyone can be connected through voices and across cultures.
The two pillars around which QuHu is built are:
Users - for whom we want to solve the problem of discovery basis interest (algorithmically driven feed) and provide an impressive experience through audio- bites (short content), live audio, audio rooms & audio games.
Creators - for whom we want to make creation & editing a seamless process through a suite of 'creator tools' like sound mixing, trim, pitch shifter, voicemojis, voice filters, noise reduction, etc & help them monetise
➢ Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
➢ Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ECMAScript 5, 6)
➢ Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (SailsJS, Express)
➢ Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
➢ Familiarity with front-end technologies
➢ User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
➢ Interaction with multiple data sources
➢ Good understanding of SQL syntax
➢ Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
➢ Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
➢ Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
➢ Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .
➢ Knowledge in the field of IOT is good to have.









