Sr. Backend Developer (Remote)

Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Python Backend Developer with proven expertise in FastAPI to join our team as a full-time contractor for 12 months. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in backend development, a strong understanding of API design, and the ability to deliver scalable, secure solutions. Knowledge of front-end technologies is an added advantage. Immediate joiners are preferred. This role requires full-time commitment—please apply only if you are not engaged in other projects.

Job Type:

Full-Time Contractor (12 months)

Location:

Remote / On-site (Jaipur preferred, as per project needs)

Experience:

5+ years in backend development

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Python and FastAPI.
•  Implement and manage Prisma ORM for database operations.
• Build scalable APIs and integrate with SQL databases and third-party services.
• Deploy and manage backend services using Azure Function Apps and Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to deliver high-quality web applications.
• Ensure application performance, security, and reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.

Required Skills:

• Expertise in Python backend development with strong experience in FastAPI.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
• Proficiency in SQL databases and ORM tools (preferably Prisma)
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud and Azure Function Apps.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
• Knowledge of cloud architecture best practices.

Added Advantage:

• Front-end development knowledge (React, Angular, or similar frameworks).
• Exposure to AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
• Experience with NoSQL databases.

Eligibility:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Available for full-time engagement.
• Please excuse if you are currently engaged in other projects—we require dedicated availability.

Job Requirements:

•        experience with API development, Rest API and Web socket

Proven experience in software and application development, preferably as a .NET Developer

• Experience in working with SQL Server, .net core, ASP.NET framework and architectural patterns such as MVC
• Good understanding in Web API/Rest API
• Good at HTML, CSS3, jQuery and Java Script/Typescript
• Ability to take quick decisions while working in a fast-paced environment
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
• Ensure high-level performance and responsiveness of all the .NET applications.
• Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
• Production quality code is must to have better performance of the application.
• Should think out of the box and research on to adapt optimized technical solutions.

website: www.glansolutions.com

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Proven track record of Team Leading/Mentoring a team successfully.
• Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture both frontend and backend.
• Java, Spring framework, hibernate
• MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis, 
• Kubernetes, Docker
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Work alongside the product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.
• Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive.
• Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.
• Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.
• Team mentorship and leadership.

• Design and develop innovative, company impacting products and services to support infrastructure operations
• Design, develop and implement object-oriented PHP applications from prototype through implementation
• Integrate open source and commercial enterprise applications into an exposed API and web-based portal
• Create highly scalable and performant REST/SOAP web services
• Keep focus on end users and goals all through the development process
• Work closely with product management and stakeholders to ensure applications meet needs and expectations
• Adhere to the highest levels of technical discipline and excellence to set a standard for the larger development organization

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related field, or comparable extra work experience
• Solid experience with SQL and relation databases
• Solid experience with Object Oriented Design and Development
• Experience Developing API Interfaces
• Experience with version control systems, preferably Git

Beneficial Skills

• Experience with non-relational data stores such as ZooKeeper or Memcache

• New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
• Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
• Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
• Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
• Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
• Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.

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The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

• BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
• REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
• Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
• Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
• Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
• Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Java Developer Job Description

We are looking for a Java developer responsible for building Java applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Skill Set:

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Java, Rest API integration, JSON, XML, Oracle, Microservices, Agile Scrum.
• Experience in developing large-scale distributed systems.
• API knowledge
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, React native
• Experience: 04 to 10 years
• Salary: As Per Market

Requirements :

• Minimum 5 years of experience working on Python Environment
• Knowledge of software development methodologies and being able to work on projects individually or as part of a team. should be able to work with AGILE methodology.
• Knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and other development tools.
• Strong interest in learning new skills/technologies and curiosity to explore various technologies
• Should have strong analytical skills
• Good communication.

Must Required Skills:

• Python 3
• should have worked on one or more major Python web frameworks.
• Working knowledge in selenium.
• Worked with APIs development, integration of third-party APIs
• Working knowledge of MySQL databases integration with Python Environment.

Job Description:

Perform high quality software analysis, development, testing and maintenance for the client’s core technology platform  

* Work with Product owners, Architects and X-Vertical teams to analyse requirements.

* Implement the features based on the design.

* Follow good development practices.

* Product deployment and support.

* Mentor junior developers.

Job Requirements

* Excellent analytical skills and problem solving skills.

* Expert in JEE/ Java programming.

* Competent in delivering a high quality product.

* Competent in software engineering tools and best practices

* Conversant in web front-end technologies - HTML5/CSS/JavaScript
* Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD)

* Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes.

* Exhibit creativity and resourcefulness at problem solving while collaborating and working effectively   with best in class designers, engineers of different technical backgrounds, architects and product managers.

* Expert in data structures and algorithms.

* Aware of Agile methodology of Software Development Life Cycle.

* Should be a self-starter and a good team player.

* Great communication skills both verbal and written to ensure effective communication across product teams, functions and locations.

* Can make decisions without always asking others what has to be done.

* Ability to mentor junior developers.

* Experience working with remote teams.

* Flexible to work on any technology as per project demand.