Senior Software Development Engineer-Python

Senior Python Django Developer 

Experience: Back-end development: 6 years (Required)

Location:  Bangalore/ Bhopal

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the startup environment.

This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
• Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
• Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 6 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
• Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unittest, or factory_boy.
• Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
• Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.

Leapfrog is on a mission to be a role model technology company. Since 2010, we have relentlessly worked on crafting better digital products with our team of superior engineers. We’re a full-stack company specializing in SaaS products and have served over 100 clients with our mastery of emerging technologies.

We’re thinkers and doers, creatives and coders, makers and builders— but most importantly, we are trusted partners with world-class engineers. Hundreds of companies in Boston, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco choose us to gain speed, agility, quality, and stability, giving them an edge over their competitors.

We are seeking a highly skilled Salesforce Developer to enhance our customer engagement capabilities by upgrading our Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, coupled with a strong understanding of Omni-Channel and Live Agent functionalities.

This role requires proven expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), JavaScript, HTML, SOQL, and SOSL, with the ability to design and implement scalable, high-quality Salesforce solutions that drive customer success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Focus on delivering high-quality, functional solutions on the Salesforce.com platform using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOAP, and REST APIs.
• Lead the migration from Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat, ensuring a seamless transition for users and customers within Service Cloud and Sales Cloud.
• Design and implement Omni-Channel and Omni-Flow configurations to optimize customer service workflows and routing.
• Perform deployment, testing, and documentation of Salesforce features, enhancements, and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to define, clarify, and implement both functional and non-functional requirements for new and existing backlog items.
• Train and support end-users on implemented Salesforce features and planned solutions to ensure adoption and efficiency.
• Investigate, scope, and plan the implementation of assigned epics and backlog items, leveraging deep Salesforce platform expertise to model, document, and justify scalable, maintainable solutions.

Desired Outcomes

• Lead the migration from Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat within Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, ensuring a seamless, scalable, and user-friendly transition for both customers and internal teams.
• Design, build, and deploy Enhanced Chat configurations, including Omni-Channel and Omni-Flow setups, to optimize response times, routing efficiency, and overall customer engagement.
• Execute deployment, testing, and documentation of Salesforce features, enhancements, and integrations, maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and compliance with best practices.

About you

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with coding on the Salesforce Platform using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning / Aura Components, Javascript, HTML, REST/SOAP API etc.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience creating Flows
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Omnichannel and Live Agent Chat
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Sales, Service Cloud

Required Education / Certificates / Experience

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent preferably in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification

The candidate should have extensive experience in designing and developing scalable data pipelines and real-time data processing solutions. As a key member of the team, the Senior Data Engineer will play a critical role in building end-to-end data workflows, supporting machine learning model deployment, and driving MLOps practices in a fast-paced, agile environment. Strong expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, AWS SageMaker, and Terraform is essential. Additional experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD for ML models is a significant advantage.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain high-performance ETL and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
2. Build scalable and automated MLOps pipelines for training, validation, and deployment of models using AWS SageMaker and associated services.
3. Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage AWS environments.
4. Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline model deployment workflows and ensure reliable production delivery.
5. Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
6. Develop data transformation logic and integrate data from various internal and external sources into data lakes and warehouses.
7. Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance performance of data systems in a cloud-native, fast-evolving production setup.
8. Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and security standards across all data handling activities.
9. Document data engineering solutions and workflows to facilitate cross-functional understanding and ongoing maintenance.

• 6+ years of experience in Java backend development with expertise in Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful services.
• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), system design, and design patterns.
• Proven experience leading a team of engineers or taking ownership of modules/projects.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

• Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good Knowledge of OOPS, PHP, MVC frameworks.
• Write error free code and follow coding standards. Able to perform Code Review job.
• Work closely with QA person to assist in the testing process. 
• Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Able to work closely with the team and meet the tight deadlines where necessary.
• Strong Communication Skills.

We are seeking a skilled PHP Laravel developer to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining web applications using the Laravel framework. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of PHP, Laravel, and web development best practices.

Development:

Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable web applications using PHP and the Laravel framework.

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

Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.

Integrate data storage solutions, databases, and third-party APIs.

Documentation:

Create and maintain project documentation, including technical specifications, deployment procedures, and API documentation.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.

Proven experience as a PHP Laravel developer with a strong portfolio of web applications.

Solid understanding of the Laravel framework and PHP programming language.

Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Preferred Skills:

Experience with RESTful API development and integration.

Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks.

Understanding of development methodologies.

Familiarity with cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure.

Benefits:

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative and innovative work environment

Regards

Harsh Porwal

mail your resume on

harsh at spay.live

💥 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.