Senior Software Engineer(NodeJS)

Job Title: Python Developer (Full Time)

Location: Hyderabad (Onsite)

Interview: Virtual and Face to Face Interview (Last round)

Experience Required: 4 + Years  

Working Days: 5 Days

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Python Developer with a strong background in building scalable and secure applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Python frameworks, API integrations, and modern application architectures. This role requires a tech leader who can balance innovation, performance, and compliance while driving successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Application Development

• Architect and develop robust, high-performance applications using Django, Flask, and FastAPI.

1. API Integration

• Design and implement seamless integration with third-party APIs (including travel-related APIs, payment gateways, and external service providers).

1. Data Management

• Develop and optimize ETL pipelines for structured and unstructured data using data lakes and distributed storage solutions.

1. Microservices Architecture

• Build modular, scalable applications using microservices principles for independent deployment and high availability.

1. Performance Optimization

• Enhance application performance through load balancing, caching, and query optimization to deliver superior user experiences.

1. Security & Compliance

• Apply secure coding practices, implement data encryption, and ensure compliance with industry security and privacy standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR).

1. Automation & Deployment

• Utilize CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, and monitoring tools for automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring.

1. Collaboration

• Partner with front-end developers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centric, business-aligned solutions.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Technical Expertise

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and big data tools (Spark, Kafka).
• Familiarity with Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus for monitoring and visualization.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Working knowledge of testing tools: PyTest, Selenium, SonarQube.
• Experience with API integrations, booking flows, and payment gateway integrations (travel domain knowledge is a plus, but not mandatory).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and teamwork abilities.
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to perform under pressure.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead backend and platform development. You’ll drive scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS, while mentoring a talented engineering team and delivering real-world impact through proven projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers to deliver robust and scalable systems.

• Design and architect backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS infrastructure.

• Ensure code quality, CI/CD, and best practices across deployments.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into technical outcomes.

• Drive technical decisions, performance optimization, and system reliability.

• Manage sprint planning, resource allocation, and project delivery timelines.

• Contribute to hands-on coding, design reviews, and architecture discussions.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of software development experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), and related backend frameworks.

• Proven experience in building and scaling production-grade systems and services.

• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.

• Prior experience in a fintech or high-scale product startup preferred.

Why Join Univest

• Shape how India trades and invests — real users, real money, real impact.

• Fast-paced environment with ownership and room to experiment.

• Work directly with founders on tech strategy and scale.

• Transparent, high-trust culture with competitive compensation and ESOPs.

• Fun, collaborative, and ambitious team driving real innovation in fintech.

Job Description

 It is a global health and fitness platform that aids users to achieve their true physical and mental potential. We started with the vision to help people transform themselves by giving them access to content and programs that work on aspects of mind, body and recovery. Everyone on this team has a unique and mutually exclusive set of skill, building this company like founders. The platform is a combination of technology, science, art and most importantly people and is therefore driven by the knowledge and experience of world’s best coaches, sports science experts, neuroscientists and psychologists. Our insight is that transformation does not need to be about setting unrealistic goals or killing oneself in the gym. We believe in a more structured, incremental and scientific approach to tap into our true potential. We believe this is not just about how the world perceives us; but more about a way of life we believe in.

Responsibilities: -

We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.

We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.

The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

Practical experience in building APIs.

Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system.

Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus. Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins.

Practical experience with Git.

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Remote Workers would also do…

• 3 years experience working on Python, Django and DRF (must have projects)
• Back-end Development, Third Party SDK Implementation, CI/CD
• Pipeline with AWS, Containerization of Server, Caching, Micro-service Implementation
• Architecture design of the web applications.
• Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Translation of UI/UX wireframes to visual elements

A passionate developer

• Strong working knowledge of OOPS
• Functional programming principles
• Strong believer of Clean Code practices
• An advocate of TDD, BDD, SOLID, CI/CD, Lean development
  
  You’ll easily settle in if:
  You come from a strong Java/J2EE background with web application frameworks like Spring Boot or Drop wizard
  You have ample work experience in Caching, Multi-Threading, Asynchronous APIs, Exception Management and use of collections, Mocking, Unit testing tools like Junit & TestNG"
  You are fluent with version control tools like GIT and Bitbucket
   Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Static Code Analysis, Jenkins and SonarQube
  Willingness to take ownership of the technical solution and ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met.
   Exposure to AWS/Azure cloud and containerization
  Have a good Understanding of Distributed Application Architecture.
  You ‘ll love:
  Awesome opportunity to work with Micro Services architecture getting shipped on Cloud.
  Experience in working with automated build deploy powered by Code Analysis, Automated Tests, Functional and Nonfunctional analysis, Blue Green deployment and much more
   First-hand experience on broader enterprise application concerns like Message Bus, Queues, Caches, Concurrency and Parallelization

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
• Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues

• 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
• Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
• Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
• Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
• Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
• Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
• Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
• Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience in working with docker is a plus
• Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
• Strong communication skills — both written and verbal

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in software development in an object-oriented language such as Java, .NET or Node.Js
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecture at scale.
• Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, front-end technologies like AngularJS, Redux / React and upcoming web technologies.
• Real-world experience developing large scale commercial services with robust performance, resiliency, and telemetry, delivered both Online and OnPrem.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Ability to appreciate complex problems with a thorough design.