Team Lead Python Developer

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.

Senior Python Developer (6 + Years Experience)

Core Skills:

• Strong Python experience and understanding of modern design patterns, abstractions, object oriented programming at scale.
• Strong understanding of event based/async architectures (Kafka, WebSockets)
• Database interactions
• Working understanding of infrastructure as code (terraform ) and how develop code that will be deployed by IAC.
• Working understanding of Kubernetes including containerization, deploying, debugging services running on k8s.

Preferred:

• Working GCP experience including GKE, GCE, Cloud functions/cloud run, IAM.
• Git required
• CICD and automation experience; stack includes Jenkins, Terraform, Argo, Harness.

Django Python framework

PostgreSQL database

• Coordinating with development teams to find out the needs of the application.
• Using the Python programming language to create scalable code.
• Application testing and bug fixing.
• Creating the back-end elements.
• Utilising server-side logic to incorporate user-facing components.
• Integrating storage methods for data.
• Design and implementation of high-performance, low-latency applications.
• Working in concert with front-end programmers.
• Upgrading the functionality of current databases.
• Creating digital technologies to track online activity.

• Work experience as Python developer
• Should have experience in  developing and working on consumer facing web/app products on in Django framework
• Should have experience working with react js front end design.
• Thorough knowledge of data stores, MyScore AWS services and should have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Experience in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
• Good experience of developing and integrating APIs
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system (mysql)
• Understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool (git)
• Good problem-solving skills

JD - Senior Dev with more than 5 years relevant experience

1. Working experience on web development using Python/Django
2. Comfortable with using Django framework.
3. Understanding of web servers
4. Knowledge in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other database queries
5. Experience in using Redis cache.
6. Understanding of web technologies
7. Experience in REST API development using Django.
8. Strong hold on Apache
9. Integration of data storage solutions
10. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
11. Understanding of JavaScript, and front-end JS frameworks like VueJS, React JS and Angular JS
12. Good communication skill
13. .net/.NET core will be an added advantage

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Are you are the one who wants to work on a tech-heavy product, and the challenging technical problems that it entails? Problems vary, and can be as diverse as scaling the product smoothly as the company grows, to setting up a device farm, or solving streaming issues through a browser, without the use of plugins. Will you be excited for the challenge to transform and think critically on many computer science disciplines including product design, usability, building APIs and user-centric online applications, business logic, scaling performance, and 24x7 reliability?

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing high quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Lead out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better. Evaluate our success metrics and evolve our reporting systems
• Works on the web application layer, backend, systems, streaming and other associated technology to build our product and components
• Find solutions and solve issues around a variety of operating systems or programming languages
• Researching new technologies and adapt them to BrowserStack requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open Source
• Teaching others how to use new software
• Willing to learn new programming languages and databases
• Able to write efficient SQL queries and design schemas for relational databases
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people (no lone wolves)
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality

• Good experience in at least one scripting language: Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell or similar
• Familiarity with one compiled language: C, Java, Go or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Reasonable knowledge of Windows and/or Linux operating systems
• Ability to work on Windows and Linux platform below the application layer, including file systems, kernels, custom installations, shell scripting, internal APIs, etc
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Experience of 3-6 years