Sr. Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

Deqode is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Python + AWS Developer to join our growing technology team. This role demands hands-on experience in backend development, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, automation, and client communication. The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with a strong technical foundation and a passion for delivering high-quality, scalable solutions in a client-facing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs using Python.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).
• Automate deployments and infrastructure with Terraform and Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
• Implement containerized environments using Docker and manage orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Write automation and scripting solutions in Bash/Shell to streamline operations.
• Work with relational databases like MySQL and SQL, including query optimization.
• Collaborate directly with clients to understand requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability across environments.

Required Skills:

• 3.5+ years of hands-on experience in Python development.
• Strong expertise in AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Good understanding of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Proficient with Docker and container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong command of SQL/MySQL and scripting with Bash/Shell.
• Experience working with external clients or in client-facing roles

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Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or DevOps Engineer).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Strong understanding of Core Python, data structures, OOPs, exception handling, and logical problem-solving.
• Experience in at least one Python framework (FastAPI preferred, Flask/Django acceptable).
• Good knowledge of REST API development and API authentication (JWT/OAuth).
• Experience with SQL databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) & NoSQL databases (MongoDB/Firestore).
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, and code reviews.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization and writing clean, efficient code.
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality Python applications using FastAPI (or Flask/Django).
• Design and implement RESTful APIs with strong understanding of request/response cycles, data validation, and authentication.
• Work with SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Firestore) databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience with Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataflow, Notebooks) will be a strong plus.
• Work with cloud environments (GCP/AWS) for deployments, storage, logging, etc.
• Use version control tools such as Git/BitBucket for collaborative development.
• Support and build data pipelines using Dataflow/Beam and BigQuery if required.
• Experience with GCP services like BigQuery, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Cloud Functions, Notebooks etc
• Good to have Exposure to microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, or message queues (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
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The key aspects of this role include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business need and architectural improvements.

• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.

• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features

To be the right fit, you'll need:

• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.

• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and Scalable applications

• Strong communication skills

• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB

• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

We are looking to recruit an expert for backend software development at Webnyay. We are an enterprise SaaS startup catering to India and international markets. We are now growing fast and need a rockstar senior software developer who is an expert in Python/Django and GCP.

What we are looking for:

• At least 6 years of professional software development experience.
• At least 4 years of experience with Python & Django.
• Proficiency in Natural Language Processing (tokenization, stopword removal, lemmatization, embeddings, etc.)
• Experience in computer vision fundamentals, particularly object detection concepts and architectures (e.g., YOLO, Faster R-CNN)
• Experience in search and retrieval systems and related concepts like ranking models, vector search, or semantic search techniques
• Experience with multiple databases (relational and non-relational).
• Experience with hosting on GCP and other cloud services.
• Familiar with continuous integration and other automation.
• Focus on code quality and writing scalable code.
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies depending on business requirements.
• Prior startup experience will be a plus!

Some of your responsibilities would include:

• Work closely in a highly AGILE environment with a team of engineers.
• Create and maintain technical documentation of technical design and solution.
• Build products/features that are highly scalable, secure, highly available, high performing and cost-effective.
• Help team in debugging.
• Perform code reviews.
• Understand the full feature set/ implementation and architecture of the applications.
• Analyze business goals and product requirements and contribute to application architecture design, development and delivery.
• Provide technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle; from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support.
• Act as an Interface with business teams to understand and create technical specifications for workable solutions within the project.
• Explore and work with LLM APIs and Generative AI.
• Make performance-related recommendations, identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks (hardware, software, configuration); drive performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring.
• Participate in the software development lifecycle, which includes research, new development, modification, security, reuse, re-engineering and maintenance of common component libraries.
• Participate in product definition and feature prioritization.
• Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders across business verticals.

Mandatory

Strong Senior / Lead Software Engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have Min 6 YOE in Software development, wherein 1-2 Yrs as Senior or Lead Role.

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have experience with Python + Django / Flask or similar framework

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have experience with Relational Databases (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle etc)

Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have good experience in Micro Services or Distributed System frameworks(eg, Kafka, Google pub / Sub, AWS SNS, Azure Service Bus) or Message brokers(eg,RabbitMQ)

Mandatory (Location) - Candidate must be from Bengaluru

Mandatory (Company) - Product / Start-up companies only

Mandatory (Stability) - Should have worked for at least 2 years in 1 Company in last 3 years..

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop,  implement and evolve our backend platform (whose APIs and functionality provided are used by other game services, apps, and admin back office)
• Develop highly efficient, robust, quality code for applications and services
• Maintain clean coding practices
• Enhancing and supporting existing functions, some of which are 24/7
• Supporting product owners as required
• Providing support to the testing team during testing phases of the projects
• Contributing to solution proposals as required
• Creating work effort estimates as required
• Mentor, train on the best practices junior software associates and other team members.

• Clean coding practices
• Knowledge of scalable web architectures is required
• A solid understanding of Linux, JVM is required
• Knowledge of DevOps, Docker, Build Pipelines is good to have
• Knowledge of git workflow is essential
• Working with SOA, Microservices.

Any specific knowledge / experience:

• Functional programming experience with immubtable datastructures is required
• Knowledge of Erlang / Elixir is a plus.
• Knowledge of Clojure is perfect

 JD / Skills Sets

1. Good knowledge on Python

2. Good knowledge on My-Sql, mongodb 

3. Design Pattern

4. OOPs

5. Automation

6. Web scraping

7. Redis queue

8. Basic idea of Finance Domain will be beneficial.

9. Git10. AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

• Apply fundamental software engineering design principles and write effective, scalable code.
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Strong understanding of multi-threading, synchronization & performance analysis of web applications
• Highly experienced with developing RESTful API’s
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Develop unit tests, automation and debug code
• Improve & maintain the functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Understand the big picture, coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field.
• 5+ work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in Django or at least one other popular Python web framework
• (like Flask or Pyramid)
• Excellent Python 3 development & debugging skills
• Knowledge of object oriented analysis & design as well as object-relational mapping (ORM) techniques
• Strong understanding microservices architecture & design patterns
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles, including good
• documentation of API using Swagger/OpenAPI specifications
• Familiarity with GIT
• Familiarity with microservices development & deployment, including CI/CD pipelines
• (e.g. Jenkins) and containerization platforms (e.g, Docker)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Excellent team spirit & exceptional problem-solving skills