Sr. Database Developer

We are looking for a customer-obsessed, analytical Sr. Staff Engineer to lead the development and growth of our Tax Compliance product suite. In this role, you’ll shape innovative digital solutions that simplify and automate tax filing, reconciliation, and compliance workflows for businesses of all sizes. You will join a fast-growing company where you’ll work in a dynamic and competitive market, impacting how businesses meet their statutory obligations with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

As the Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll work closely with product, DevOps, and data teams to architect reliable systems, drive engineering excellence, and ensure high availability across our platform. We’re looking for a technical leader who’s not just an expert in building scalable systems, but also passionate about mentoring engineers and shaping the future of fintech.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
• Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python.
• Experience in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Architect and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform with a DevOps-first mindset.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and compliance experts to deliver features that make tax compliance seamless for our users.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Experience in fintech, tax, or compliance industries.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Background in security, observability, or compliance automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or principal-level role.
• Deep expertise in Python, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
• Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/RabbitMQ-like systems.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Are you a high-performing, collaborative, results oriented and technologically savvy person who is keen on sales in the digital industry? Then this highly visible role is for you!

Our client is the Health-tech initiative of India's largest business house. Started in 2015, it empowers healthcare providers and consumers in India. All healthcare monitoring services are made available through an app that will help connect doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and consumers, enabling preventive and predictive healthcare. It helps the care-givers to track the entire patient journey from the initial appointment and maintaining their records, generating lab test reports to providing virtual consultation and home-care solutions. It is expected that this futuristic guide will strengthen doctor-patient relationship and enhance the in-clinic experience.

As the Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.

What you will do:

• Building components for the company's advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and solutions effectively
• Participating in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications
• Developing the Code as per the requirements
• Working with product team and constructing the tech roadmap
• Designing, building and scaling the company's backend microservices
• Maintaining code integrity and organization
• Applying all quality requirements to make the code production ready
• Developing and deploying new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Developing documentation related to technical aspects and to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations
• Designing and building efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Pro actively catching and fixing bugs, and providing support for the back end services
• Managing servers and infrastructure by keeping the lights on and refining the deployment architecture

What you need to have: