Sr. Backend Engineer

Job Title: Python Backend Engineer (Full-time)

Location: Gurgaon, Onsite

Working Days: 5 days

Experience Required: 4+ Years

Interview: Screening and Face-to-face Interview

Job Summary

We are looking for a Python Backend Engineer with strong experience in FastAPI/Django and hands-on exposure to MLOps and LLMOps. You will work on building APIs, deploying ML/LLM models, and enabling intelligent systems using modern AI tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable backend systems using Python, FastAPI, or Django
• Deploy and manage ML models (e.g., OpenCV, scikit-learn) and LLMs in production
• Develop APIs for ML/LLM inference and support RAG pipelines
• Implement model versioning, CI/CD, and monitoring for production use
• Collaborate with AI teams to integrate models into applications

Skills Required

• Strong Python backend development (FastAPI/Django)
• Experience with ML libraries: scikit-learn, OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas
• MLOps tools: MLflow, DVC, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes
• LLMOps tools: LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines, FAISS, Pinecone
• Integration experience with OpenAI, Hugging Face, or other LLM APIs
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

About Potentiam

Potentiam helps SME companies build world-class offshore teams. Our model is our locations and your dedicated staff under your control. Potentiam have offices in Iasi in Romania, Bangalore and Cape Town, home to large liquid pools of offshore talent working for international companies. Potentiam's management team have had over 15 years' experience in building offshore teams, and have specialist functional expertise to support the transition offshore in technology, finance, operations, engineering, digital marketing, technology and analytics. For decades corporations' scale has enabled them to benefit from the cost and skills advantage of offshore operations. Now SME companies can enjoy a similar benefit through Potentiam without any upfront investment.

Location : Bangalore ( Hybrid)

Experience - 6+ Years

Professional Experience:

• Experience using a Python backend web framework (like Django, Flask or FastAPI)
• In particular, experience building performant and reliable APIs and integrations
• Competency using SQL and ORMs
• Some experience with frontend web development would be a bonus using a JavaScript framework (such as Vue.js or React)
• Understanding of some of the following: Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, nginx, AWS

Benefits and Perks

• Health Insurance
• Referral Bonus
• Performance Bonus
• Flexible Working options

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

About The Team

We are striving to create the best productivity tools which will help small businesses to go online and scale their growth consistently with the bleeding edge of technology. Our backend team is looking for a solid Rockstar engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!

We place special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member - and we do this with regular 1-1s and open communication. As Software Engineer - Backend, you will be part of self-starters who thrive on teamwork and constructive feedback.

About The Role

As a Software Engineer - Backend, you will solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our users. In this role, you will ensure that the solutions and processes that we create are of the highest quality. And in doing so, you will champion a seamless app experience for all our users. You will also collaborate with your fellow engineers to create scalable solutions that are pertinent to Product IO's overall growth.

If you are confident about solving hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and creating an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, then you might just be our next Software Engineer - Backend

What You'll Do:

• Lead, build, test, and release mobile application features using cross-platform tools.
• Collaborate with the front-end team to expose weaknesses and problems
• Build out our APIs and tools using Python & Firebase libraries on the backend.
• Experience with NodeJS and deployment in Serverless
• Experience with NoSql(MongoDB) and SQL(PostregSQL)
• Work closely with Product, Design, Platform, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision.
• Previous experience helping shape API structures and building REST APIs.
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance (GCP)

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional software development experience, preferably mobile apps with a cloud backend. Example projects in (Python, Firebase)
• 6 months experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication skills are a must, and experience with estimating and managing project tasks is important, too
• Highly driven, naturally curious, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points:

• 1+ years of experience in developing Firebase apps.
• Experience in developing or designing APIs and web applications.
• Deployment in Cloud Environment.
• Familiarity with Flutter.

Why join us:

• 👫 A fast-moving, fun, growth-oriented company made up of skillful team players
• 💬 Transparent, open, and collaborative work environment
• 🌟 An opportunity to work closely with a proven executive team, board, and serial entrepreneurs

Responsibilities: 

• Design and code efficient, scalable systems that can accept feedback from multiple hundred thousand employees and generate insights 
• Design efficient and scalable event driven systems to process complex machine learning pipeline
• Experiment with data to come up with unique insights and that can benefit our clients
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to bring more value to our clients
• Investigate performance issues / scalability bottlenecks, existing queries and/or write new queries with performance optimization in mind
• Develop RESTful APIs that can be used by frontend to show insights
• Debug and fix production level bugs as and when they crop up
• Support ad hoc data analytics upon requests by clients, and believe us nothing creates a better DB understanding than handling ad hoc data requests 

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications 
• Experience with systems ingesting/processing high amounts of data is a plus 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database 
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms  
• Experienced in microservices architecture  
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make a big impact
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