Sr. Backend Engineer

Senior Python Django Developer 

Experience: Back-end development: 6 years (Required)

Location:  Bangalore/ Bhopal

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Django Developer with extensive experience in building and scaling financial or payments-based applications. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices, along with a strong grasp of the start-up environment.

This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust and scalable financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Python (Django framework).
• Architect system components, define database schemas, and optimize backend services for speed and efficiency.
• Lead and implement design patterns and software architecture best practices.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive unit testing, integration testing, and participation in code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Frontend teams to build seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Drive performance improvements, monitor system health, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Apply domain knowledge in payments and finance, including transaction processing, reconciliation, settlements, wallets, UPI, etc.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 6 to 10 years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Strong background in payments/financial systems or FinTech applications.
• Proven experience in designing software architecture in a microservices or modular monolith environment.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with agile practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis).
• Solid understanding of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and frameworks like pytest, unittest, or factory_boy.
• Familiarity with security best practices in financial applications (PCI compliance, data encryption, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience integrating with third-party payment gateways, banking APIs, or financial instruments.
• Understanding of DevOps and monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Contributions to open-source or personal finance-related projects.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

• Day shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• JP Nagar, 5th Phase, Bangalore, Karnataka or Indrapuri, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (Preferred)

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python or Golang.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and product teams for smooth feature delivery.
• Participate in peer code reviews and technical discussions.
• Debug and fix issues, ensuring system stability and performance.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies and tools in backend development.

Experience and Expertise:

• 0–2 years of software development experience (internships or projects acceptable).
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Python or Golang).
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and software fundamentals.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and database concepts.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments.
• Exposure to Git and version control workflows.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Willingness to learn, adapt, and take ownership.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies, including AI-driven development, backend technologies, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices.

Position of the role

The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.

Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities

The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.

Main objectives of the role

✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.

✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.

✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.

✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.

✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.

✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.

✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.

✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.

Specialisation

✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.

✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.

✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.

✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.

✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.

✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.

✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.

✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.

Key processes in the role

✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.

✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.

✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.

✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.

✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

✔ Data-driven decision-making.

✔ Performance optimization.

Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)

✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).

✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.

✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.

✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.

✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.

Requirements

✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .

✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.

✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.

✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.

✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.

✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.

✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.

Competences

✔ Strategic Thinking - 4

✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4

✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4

✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3

Measures of success

✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.

✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.

✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.

✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.

✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.

✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.

✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.

✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.

Type, Location: Remote, India

Desired Experience: 2+ years

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Hands-on GoLang development
• Go Lang developers perform tasks related to the design, development, modification, and administration of software systems and applications.
• Comfortable with algorithm design, scripting, and unit testing.
• Demonstrated skills in debugging, design patterns, and enterprise resource planning.
• Is skilled at problem-solving.

Must have skills :

● You must have 2+ years Golang experience.

● You must have (React.js or Node.js or Python or Java )experience.

● You must have any Frontent or Backend Technology with Golang 

We're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer Interns to join our growing team of engineers to help build and maintain our products. You should have prior internship experience as Backend intern using PythonDjango

Requirements/Skills

• At least prior internship experience -on Backend development experience especially in Python & Django stack is must
• Prior experience in tech and product startups ‍.
• Good communication skills
• Minimum 60% aggregate marks (Passed out year - 2022 & 2023)
• Sound knowledge on Python programming language and must have completed projects using the Python

Internship Details :

• Full-time Paid Internship(15,000-35,000)
• Internship duration: 3-6 months
• Based on their performance during the internship, there may be a Full-time opportunity available for them to join our team

Join our growing team and work with some of the best backend engineers. Work on interesting and complex challenges in a fast paced development environment

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; 

designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.

At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).

Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.

Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics

Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

We are looking for Django Developers who will  work on a wide range of industries namely automobile, banking, education, fashion, etc.

Skills Required: 

• Professional and precise communication skills.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, testable modules and components..
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performance visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30fps at all times.
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform,  database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system.
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive  feedback.
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multithreading, when needed.
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around resources.
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets.

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in Backend Development
• Preferred skills - Python, MySql, PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with Python, Django framework, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud Services ( EC2, AWS Lambda,Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, S3 etc )
• Familiar with XAMPP, LAMP etc.

Position: Python Developer

Experience: 2-9 Years

Company Profile:

About Exponentia: Exponentia is an AI tech organization with presence across India, Singapore, Middle East, and the UK. We are an innovative and disruptive organization, working on cutting edge technology to help our clients transform into the enterprises of the future. We provide artificial intelligence-based products/platforms capable of automated cognitive decision making to improve productivity, quality, and economics of the underlying business processes. Currently, we are transforming ourselves and rapidly expanding our business.

About Engagely: Engagely is an artificial intelligence based conversational product (SaaS) by Exponentia. Our core engine uses NLP and machine intelligence to deliver intelligent conversations. We help organizations create virtual assistants, bringing in automation and insightful customer engagement.

Requirements:

• 2-9 years hands on experience in Core Python with any framework (Flask/Django) building end to end applications development.
• Experience in Mongo (or any Nosql)
• Experience in client coordination
• Experience in Nodejs would be a plus
• Experience in Web technologies-HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Database-SQL Server/My SQL/ No SQL database
• Good understanding of Algorithms, data structures 

Education

BE/MBA /PG (Statistics) with good academic credentials