Software Engineer II- Backend

Job Details

- Job Title: Staff Engineer

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 9-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

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.

Company Description

Euphoric Thought Technologies Pvt. Ltd. provides modern technology solutions with a focus on performance and results for organizations. We are committed to creating a better future by acting differently, thinking carefully, and always being enthusiastic. Euphoric offers services in Product Development, Cloud Management and Consulting, DevOps, ML/AI, ServiceNow Integration, Blockchain Development, and Data Analytics.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role in Bengaluru for a Senior Python Developer at Euphoric Thought Technologies Pvt. Ltd. The developer will be responsible for back-end and front-end web development, software development, full-stack development, and using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to build effective and efficient applications.

Qualifications

• Back-End Web Development and Full-Stack Development skills
• Front-End Development and Software Development skills
• Proficiency in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Experience with Python, Django, and Flask frameworks
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Agile Methodologies: Proven experience working in agile teams, demonstrating the application of agile principles with lean thinking.
• Front end - ReactJS skill
• Data Engineering: Useful experience blending data engineering with core software engineering.
• Additional Programming Skills: Desirable experience with other programming languages (C++, .NET) and frameworks.
• CI/CD Tools: Familiarity with Github Actions is a plus.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS,) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Code Optimization: Proficient in profiling and optimizing Python code.

Mandate Skills:

• 3 - 7 years of experience in cloud-native applications (Azure strongly preferred) using Python.
• Thorough understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) design and practices.
• Strong RDBMS experience (PostgreSQL, MS SQL etc.) designing tables & writing queries.
• Great command of design patterns (especially integration design patterns)

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

Role Responsibilities:

• Development and Maintenance of REST APIs: Lead the creation and management of our RESTful APIs, ensuring top-notch performance and alignment with evolving requirements.
• Proficiency in Coding: We're in search of expertise in Python or equivalent programming languages. Your coding skills will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality (efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable) solutions.
• Unit and Integration Testing: Apply your expertise to craft unit and integration tests, upholding code quality and reliability.
• Version Control Systems: Proficiency in Distributed Version Control Systems is vital for seamless collaboration during development.
• Elasticsearch Expertise: Having valuable experience with Elasticsearch is a plus, given its critical role in data retrieval and search functionalities.
• NOSQL Database Familiarity: Knowledge of NOSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB will be advantageous.
• Message Broker Knowledge: Understanding message brokers, especially RabbitMQ, is beneficial for effective communication within our systems.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience: 1-2 years of hands-on experience as a Python developer.
• AWS: Proficiency in AWS cloud management and architecting enterprise data solutions.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Recognize when a solution should be streamlined and when creating the right abstraction will lead to long-term efficiency gains.
• Passion for Quality: Demonstrate dedication to producing work of the highest quality and following best practices.
• Agile/Lean Process: Familiarity with Agile/Lean methodologies is a plus, reflecting your adaptability and collaborative spirit.
• Startup Mindset: Embrace the challenges and opportunities of a startup environment, contributing your skills and insights to our growth.
• Debugging and Optimization: Showcase excellent debugging and optimization capabilities to enhance system performance.
• Tech Awareness: Stay updated on emerging technologies and possess a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
• UX and Information Architecture: Exhibit excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture, and industry trends.