Sr Backend Engineer

Role Title:- Mid-Level Python Developer

 Location - Bangalore

 Employment Type -Full-time (Work from Office)

Experience Required - 3 to 7 years

Notice Period Preference - Open to all candidates, but shorter notice period candidates will be preferred.

About the Role

We are looking for a strong Mid-Level Python Developer to join our backend engineering team in Bangalore. The role is focused on building, maintaining, and improving backend systems for fintech products in the Indian capital markets domain, specifically around PMS, AIF, portfolio operations, order management, reporting, and client-facing enterprise workflows.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building APIs, working with relational databases, writing clean and maintainable Python code, and solving practical backend engineering problems. This is a backend-first role. Frontend or Angular exposure is preferred but not mandatory.

The candidate should be capable of independently owning backend modules, collaborating with product and frontend teams, mentoring junior developers, and eventually growing into a team lead role.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs using Python and FastAPI.

- Build reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend services.

- Work extensively with PostgreSQL for database design, querying, optimization, and data integrity.

- Use Redis for caching, queues, session handling, or performance improvement where applicable.

- Write clean, modular, testable, and production-ready Python code.

- Develop REST APIs with proper request validation, error handling, authentication, and response structure.

- Understand business requirements and convert them into robust backend implementation.

- Debug production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term fixes.

- Optimize database queries, backend logic, and API performance.

- Participate in code reviews and maintain engineering standards.

- Mentor junior developers and help improve their coding, debugging, and backend design skills.

- Work closely with frontend developers, QA, product/business teams, and management.

- Contribute to technical documentation, SOPs, and internal development practices.

- Build backend solutions for fintech workflows related to PMS, AIF, capital markets, reporting, order processing, and operational automation.

Required Technical Skills

Python Backend Development:-

- Strong hands-on experience with Core Python.

- Good understanding of Python data structures, functions, classes, modules, exception handling, and file handling.

- Ability to write clean, reusable, and maintainable backend code.

- Experience with practical backend service logic, data transformation, and debugging.

FastAPI / API Development:-

- Hands-on experience with FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks.

- Strong understanding of REST API design.

- Experience with request/response validation, status codes, error handling, middleware, and dependency injection.

- Basic understanding of authentication and authorization in APIs.

- Ability to design APIs that are practical, secure, and maintainable.

Database Skills:-

- Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL.

- Ability to write SQL queries involving joins, aggregations, filters, subqueries, and transactions.

- Understanding of indexing, query performance, constraints, and relational database design.

- Ability to troubleshoot data issues and optimize database-heavy backend workflows.

 Redis / Caching:-

- Working knowledge of Redis.

- Understanding of caching use cases, TTL, key-value storage, and performance improvement patterns.

- Experience using Redis in backend applications will be preferred.

 Backend Engineering Fundamentals:-

- Understanding of application architecture, modular code structure, logging, configuration management, and environment variables.

- Good debugging and problem-solving ability.

- Understanding of production issues, edge cases, and maintainability.

- Basic understanding of background jobs, queues, async processing, or scheduled tasks will be preferred.

Version Control & Development Practices

- Experience with Git.

- Ability to work with branches, pull requests, code reviews, and structured development workflows.

- Familiarity with testing, basic unit tests, and API testing tools such as Postman.

Preferred Skills

- Experience in fintech, capital markets, PMS, AIF, wealth management, portfolio reporting, or order management systems.

- Exposure to Angular or frontend development.

- Experience with background task processing, Celery, Redis queues, or scheduled jobs.

- Experience with Docker or Linux-based deployment environments.

- Experience working on enterprise SaaS or client-facing business applications.

- Understanding of financial data workflows, reconciliations, transactions, holdings, reporting, or order lifecycle.

Domain Exposure Preferred

Candidates with experience or interest in the following areas will be preferred:

- Indian capital markets

- Portfolio Management Services — PMS

- Alternative Investment Funds — AIF

- Wealth management platforms

- Order management systems

- Financial reporting systems

- Investor/client reporting workflows

- Transaction, holding, and reconciliation workflows

Expected Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should be:

- A strong backend developer with practical problem-solving ability.

- Comfortable working independently on backend modules.

- Able to understand business workflows and translate them into technical implementation.

- Detail-oriented, especially when working with financial data.

- Comfortable debugging production issues and improving system reliability.

- Capable of mentoring junior developers.

- Interested in growing into a future technical/team lead role.

- Comfortable working from an office in Bangalore.

Assessment Process

The hiring process will include:

1. Initial screening based on resume, experience, notice period, and compensation fit.

2. Google Form technical assessment of 50 marks.

3. Live coding / technical discussion round.

4. Final face-to-face discussion covering technical depth, domain fit, ownership, and team fit.

What We Are Evaluating

- Python fundamentals and coding clarity

- Backend API design ability

- SQL and PostgreSQL practical knowledge

- Debugging and problem-solving approach

- Understanding of Redis and caching basics

- Ability to think through edge cases

- Code maintainability and readability

- Production-readiness mindset

- Ability to work in fintech/capital markets workflows

- Potential to mentor juniors and grow into a lead role

 Summary

This role is suitable for a backend-focused Python developer who has strong hands-on coding ability, practical database knowledge, and the maturity to independently own backend modules. The candidate should be comfortable working in a fintech product environment where accuracy, reliability, and clean backend design are critical.

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We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience: 4.1-7 years
• Must have Skills: JavaScript ES6, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Node JS
• Strong technical background with node.js, event loop understanding, unit testing, developing web application & APIs, event & stream, call-back & closures, promise, async/await, accessing file system, Optimization techniques.
• Strong experience in JavaScript, Express.js, GraphQL
• Strong knowledge of REST, microservices, cloud development and design patterns
• Comfortable using modern tools and platforms such as Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.
• Comfortable using agile methodologies.
• Understanding of different components such as web server, storages, integrations
• Should have worked on designing and building server-side solutions (in any technology), build process of node.js, CI/CD process of node.js, multi-tasking (working on multiple things at same time)
• Good knowledge of functional and Object-Oriented Programming
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
• Familiarity with Azure pipeline
• Should have experience in Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas and sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures. Reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas.
• Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment.
• Fundamental knowledge of design patterns
• Experience in communicating effectively with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Mentoring the team members to meet the client's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery.
• Being able to understand and relate technology integration scenarios and be able to apply these learnings in complex troubleshooting scenarios.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Writing and reviewing great quality code
• Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analysing the client’s needs in the context of the project.
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns, and frameworks to realize it.
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities.
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs.
• Creating, understanding, and validating WBS and estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it.
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations.
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving of complex bugs
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken.
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.

Why you should join us

- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives

- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)

- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment

What you will do

- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.

- You will collaborate in a highly cross functional team, providing engineering perspective to non technical members of the team

- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring engineering operational excellence

- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards that are well documented

- You will author efficient, reliable and performant systems

- You will design systems, frameworks and libraries that work at scale, are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience

- You will be agile and curious about customer problems and business objectives

- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums

- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)

You should apply if

- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals

- You have been working on backend web technologies since 8+ years

- You have built and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale

- You’re experienced in building and running cloud-native platforms & distributed systems

- Extensive experience in any web stack (we use Typescript / AWS / DynamoDB / PostgreSQL)

- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity

- You are data driven, have customer empathy and enjoy building delightful applications

- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment

- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance

- You work well in a team to enhance your impact

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As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

 Top Skills

You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#

You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.