Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Backend Engineer – Python / Golang / Rust

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience Required: Minimum 2–3 years

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade, scalable backend systems using microservices architecture. You will work closely with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to design, develop, and optimize robust backend solutions that can handle high traffic and ensure system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.

• Architect and implement microservices-based systems ensuring modularity and resilience.

• Optimize application performance, database queries, and service scalability.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and DevOps teams for seamless delivery.

• Implement security best practices and ensure data protection compliance.

• Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and documentation.

• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architecture design sessions.

• Monitor, debug, and improve system performance in production environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Programming Expertise:

• Advanced proficiency in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask), OR

• Strong experience in Golang or Rust for backend development.

• Microservices Architecture: Hands-on experience in designing and maintaining distributed systems.

• Database Management: Expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, including schema design and optimization.

• API Development: Strong experience in RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Cloud Platforms: Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure for deployment and scaling.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Solid knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Messaging & Caching: Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).

• Version Control: Strong Git workflows and collaboration in team environments.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud-native deployments.

• Proven experience working on production-grade, high-traffic applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of software architecture patterns (event-driven, CQRS, hexagonal, etc.).

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Contributions to open-source projects or strong personal backend projects.

• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger).

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge backend systems that power enterprise-grade applications.

• Opportunity to learn and grow with a fast-paced engineering team.

• Exposure to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.

• Collaborative culture that values innovation, ownership, and technical excellence.

Pickyourtrail (PYT) is an expert co-creator of super hit customised holidays. We are the perfect partner to the ‘designated travel planner/s’ of every group - big or small. Our service, customisation and expertise help us deliver super hit holidays and make the planner the hero of the holiday. 

PickYourTrail is a technology-driven travel company building personalized, end-to-end travel experiences. Our platform powers dynamic itinerary creation, real-time pricing, booking orchestration, and post-booking workflows at scale. We operate in a high-throughput, real-time environment where backend systems are critical to business success.

What are we looking for in you?

You are enthusiastic about developing highly scalable, foolproof, end-to-end quality software. You have worked on api integrations, have a good understanding of api docs, SOAP, REST, rate limiter and caching. You are very passionate about data structures and algorithms. You are flexible in working with multidisciplinary teams and you push your teammates to their limits & ensure that the work is done. You consider AI as your friend and use them in all facets to augment your work, as your pair programmer, code reviewer and design philosopher. If you feel we are talking about you, contact us asap.

Who will you work with?

Being a part of a small team of backend engineers, you get to solve a wide range of problems in the travel space. Be it feature discussion, solution design, development, dev testing, deployment, enhancement or maintenance, you get to experience everything.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to contribute and solve interesting problems in the travel space.
• Solve for scalability, availability and performance along with functional integrations.
• Freedom to explore solutions rather than getting tied down by rigid standards.
• Work with some of the best techies in the industry
• An environment where Attitude is higher than Skill and performance scores over politics
• Take the product to the next level that has an impact on the end customer

What you'll bring to the team?

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Good experience in System & Solution design.
• Working knowledge of Java, Web Services, SOAP, REST and Spring Boot.
• Experience working with coding assistants like co-pilot, Claude desktop etc.
• Knowledge of GIT version control
• Good knowledge of any database (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Unit testing is a must
• Fair debugging skills

Job Location: Sewri, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Required experience:

• Minimum 2 year of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python

Overview

We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar
6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
9. Working experience with Docker
10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

KRAs includes:

1. Understanding the scope of work
2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes
3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager
4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team
5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team
6. Developing products and projects using Python
7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.
8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to

provide optimal deliveries on time

1. Writing Scalable, maintainable code
2. Building secured REST APIs
3. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery
4. Unit testing prepared modules
5. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team
6. Optimization and performance tuning of code

Exp - 4-6 years

Immediate joiners preferred

Location - Bangalore

Java + Spring boot 

Microservice 

MYSQL 

Design principal 

-Clear Communication: Practice clear and concise communication to effectively convey technical concepts.

- In-Depth Knowledge: Be prepared to provide detailed insights into experiences with specific technologies and tools, showcasing expertise.

- Specific Examples: Share real-world examples or projects where they have applied the mentioned technologies to demonstrate practical knowledge.

- Problem-Solving Skills: Be ready to discuss how they have solved real-world technical challenges in previous roles.

- Continuous Learning: Emphasize a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends, especially in rapidly evolving fields like cloud technologies.

Responsibilities : 

• Design and develop scalable, high performance, and reliable API driven services/applications in Java language that operate whole day.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Interact with both business, financial research, and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meets/exceeds business, customer, and technical requirements.
• Own products and code from cradle to grave including production quality/performance monitoring.

Required Skills :

• Experience building and running high performance enterprise applications developed in Java language.
• Hands on experience developing Java web applications built with modern standards-based APIs including Java based REST APIs and implementations. 
• Experience in Java language APIs, Spring technologies, Hibernate, JDBC, RDBMS and NoSQL based data persistence.
• Experience developing solutions on AWS Cloud leveraging AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloud Formation, and other related AWS technologies. 
• Solid understanding of Domain Modeling with Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, including ability to diagnose and fix performance and scalability issues.
• Experience working in an agile methodology-based development environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.

The Junior/ Senior Software Engineer will be a member of the development team for Supply Chain Application module suite. The Supply Chain modules includes components at various layers, including server-side, integration, supply chain planning engines and user-interface. This individual will be responsible for participating in module development and providing technical assistance to junior members of the team.

Experience and Skills:

• 4-10 years of of experience in writing software
• Strong analytical problem solving skills
• Strong Object Oriented Programming Skills. Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Extensive knowledge of the Java programming language
• Understanding of software design patterns, J2EE components (EJB, JSP, Servlets), and XML
• Experience with relational databases (preferably Oracle) and Object/Relational frameworks. Should be able to write SQL queries, procedures, triggers and do basic performance tuning.
• Experience with C++ is a plus.
• Functional knowledge of supply chain management domain.
• Prior experience in development or consulting with an enterprise software vendor – preferably in supply chain planning or forecasting area.
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns & protocols, including SOAP, REST, JMS, EDI is a plus.
• Experience writing build & deployment scripts (e.g. Ant)
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Systems implementation skills: requirements/process analysis, conceptual and detailed design, configuration, testing, training, support
• Some experience with a scripting language such as Python or Ruby preferred
• Some experience with newer web client technologies such as AJAX, EXTJS preferred.

Essential Functions:

• Producing design documents based on a requirements document and participating in design reviews
• Producing effort estimates
• Writing code, automated unit and functional tests, and build/deployment scripts
• Participating in code reviews
• Executing performance/scalability tests & profiling hotspots
• Collaborating with QA, Technical Operations and Production Support during the various phases of a project

Education:

BE/ BTech/ ME/ MTech in Engineering, Computer Science