Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Backend Engineer – Python (AI Backend)

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience: 1–2 Years

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with strong Python skills and hands-on exposure to AI-based applications. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable backend services and supporting AI-powered systems such as LLM integrations, AI agents, and RAG pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services using Python (FastAPI preferred)
• Build and manage RESTful APIs for frontend and AI integrations
• Support development of AI-driven features (LLMs, RAG systems, AI agents)
• Design and maintain both monolithic and microservices architectures
• Optimize database performance and backend scalability
• Work with DevOps for Docker-based deployments

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Python backend development
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI / Django / Flask
• Knowledge of REST APIs and microservices
• Experience with AI applications (LLM usage, prompt engineering basics)
• Database knowledge: MongoDB, PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience with Docker and basic cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and in-memory storage

Good to Have

• Experience integrating payment gateways (Razorpay, Stripe, PayU, etc.)
• Exposure to event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redis Streams
• Kubernetes
• Understanding of model fine-tuning concepts

The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):

1. Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
2. Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
3. Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
4. AWS & Terraform
5. Full nodes

You can expect to do some or all of the following:

1. Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
2. Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
3. Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
4. Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
5. Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
6. Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
7. Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
8. Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
9. Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring

We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.

1. Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
2. We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
3. Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
4. You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone

Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.

Magassians is looking for a passionate backend engineer. It will be expected from you to build pragmatic solutions on mission-critical initiatives. If you know your stuff, see the beauty in code, have knowledge in depth and breadth, advocate best practices, and love to work with distributed systems, then this is an ideal position for you.

You will be responsible for:

• Designing the architecture of the core platforms of Magna5's products.
• Spend the majority of your time writing and reviewing code.
• Work with the team in defining the timelines for the deliverables
• Share knowledge with peers through brown bags and meetups

We are looking for:

• 3 -5 years of overall software development experience
• 1 year of Go programming experience
• Expertise working on SQL and No-SQL databases
• Experience using HTTP and AMQP transport mediums and streaming technologies like Kafka and NATS-Streaming
• Inner-drive to take the team to the next level in a fast-paced environment

Interview Process:

Our interview process is short and straightforward, with three rounds.

• Code - The first thing we look at is your ability to write code and tests. If you can share something, we can take a look great. Otherwise, we will send you an assignment.
• Technical Round - We schedule a technical round that can go up to 2 hours, where we have technical discussions plus remote pairing sessions.
• Culture Fit & Compensation - We double-check the potential team member is a culture fit. Culture fit is as important to us as writing code. Once we know that you are a great fit, we discuss and finalize numbers on the same call. You will have three days to take up the offer.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and code efficient, scalable systems that can accept feedback from multiple hundred thousand employees and generate insights 
• Design efficient and scalable event driven systems to process complex machine learning pipeline
• Experiment with data to come up with unique insights and that can benefit our clients
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to bring more value to our clients
• Investigate performance issues / scalability bottlenecks, existing queries and/or write new queries with performance optimization in mind
• Develop RESTful APIs that can be used by frontend to show insights
• Debug and fix production level bugs as and when they crop up
• Support ad hoc data analytics upon requests by clients, and believe us nothing creates a better DB understanding than handling ad hoc data requests 

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications 
• Experience with systems ingesting/processing high amounts of data is a plus 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database 
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms  
• Experienced in microservices architecture  
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make a big impact
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1. Hands on programming skills.
2. Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
3. Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
4. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
5. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
6. Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github

Software Development Engineer – SDE 2.            

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

 Top Skills

You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#

You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops