Senior Software Engineer – Backend (AI/Platform)

Job Responsibilities :

- Work closely with product managers and other cross-functional teams to help define, scope, and deliver world-class products and high-quality features addressing key user needs.

- Translate requirements into system architecture and implement code while considering performance issues of dealing with billions of rows of data and serving millions of API requests every hour.

- Ability to take full ownership of the software development lifecycle from requirement to release.

-Writing and maintaining clear technical documentation enabling other engineers to step in and deliver efficiently.

- Embrace design and code reviews to deliver quality code.

- Play a key role in taking Trendlyne to the next level as a world-class engineering team

- Develop and iterate on best practices for the development team, ensuring adherence through code reviews.

- As part of the core team, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies like AI products, online backtesting, data visualization, and machine learning.

- Develop and maintain scalable, robust backend systems using Python and Django framework.

- Proficient understanding of the performance of web and mobile applications.

- Mentor junior developers and foster skill development within the team.

Job Requirements :

- 1+ years of experience with Python and Django.

- Strong understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL and Redis.

- (Optional) : Experience with web front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Who are we :

Trendlyne, is a Series-A products startup in the financial markets space with cutting-edge analytics products aimed at businesses in stock markets and mutual funds.

Our founders are IIT + IIM graduates, with strong tech, analytics, and marketing experience. We have top finance and management experts on the Board of Directors.

What do we do :

We build powerful analytics products in the stock market space that are best in class. Organic growth in B2B and B2C products have already made the company profitable. We deliver 900 million+ APIs every month to B2B customers. Trendlyne analytics deals with 100s of millions rows of data to generate insights, scores, and visualizations, which are an industry benchmark.

About the Role:

We are looking for a skilled Back-End Golang Developer to join our engineering team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance back-end systems and APIs. This role provides an opportunity to work on complex distributed systems, contribute to architecture decisions, and build fault-tolerant solutions that serve millions of users. Looking for an Engineer with 2-4 years of experience in Golang.

Key Skills:

• Golang, Gin / Echo / Fiber (REST API frameworks), gRPC
• PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, NoSQL/Graph databases (preferred)
• Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP / Azure, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Go’s testing package, Testify, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Microservices architecture, API design principles (OpenAPI/Swagger), query optimization, caching strategies

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure back-end systems using Golang.
• Build RESTful APIs and microservices with a focus on performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, product, design) to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Optimize code and database queries for maximum scalability and responsiveness.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and reliable deployments.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to maintain system health and uptime.
• Follow security best practices to safeguard sensitive data and prevent vulnerabilities.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to improving team standards, tooling, and processes.
• Stay updated with the Golang ecosystem and recommend new tools, frameworks, and approaches.

About Role

We are looking for a hands-on Python Engineer with strong experience in backend development, AI-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across Python services, AI/ML pipelines, and cloud-native environments, and capable of building production-grade, scalable systems.

This role offers high ownership, exposure to real-world AI systems, and long-term growth, making it ideal for engineers who want to build meaningful products rather than just features

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python
• Build APIs and services using FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
• Integrate AI/ML models into production systems (model inference, automation)
• Build and maintain AI pipelines for data processing and inference
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and AI teams on end-to-end delivery
• Follow best practices for security, monitoring, and logging

Required Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of backend frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Django
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML systems into applications
• Solid experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM)
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD workflows
• Understanding of scalable system design principles
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a product-driven environment

Perks and Benefits

• Work in Nikhil Kamath funded startup
• ₹3 – ₹4.6 LPA with ESOPs linked to performance and tenure
• Opportunity to build long-term wealth through ESOP participation
• Work on production-scale AI systems used in real-world applications
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures
• Work with a team that values clean engineering, experimentation, and execution
• Exposure to modern backend frameworks, AI pipelines, and DevOps practices
• High autonomy, fast decision-making, and real ownership of features and systems

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

Ideal candidate must have :

- 2+ years of experience in writing code

- Ability to meet tight deadlines

- Can work independently and be a team contributor

- Must have good knowledge of Node, Python and Scripting languages

- Experience in one or more of RDBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle

- Experience with NoSQL and real-time DB - Firebase/Firestore or MongoDB

- Must be able to write concise and high-quality API

- Must be a quick learner, curious and ambitious  

Job Description

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

 Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best

technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.

 Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

 Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

 Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

 Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while

continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

 Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products

spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.

 Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.

 Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and

cross-team.

 Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to

them. 

Skills required

 MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

 3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale

distributed internet systems and products.

 Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript

frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.

 Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

 Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge

technologies around server side development.

 Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github,

Google Developer Groups (GDGs).

 Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

 Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-

energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

 Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.