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Job Title : Python Developer (Crawlers / APIs / Async Programming)

Experience : 3 to 6 Years

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Job Location : Bangalore

Interview Process : 1 Internal Round + 2 Client Rounds

Mandatory Skill :

Strong Python experience with crawlers, REST APIs, async/multithreading, and PostgreSQL/MySQL in a cloud environment.

Role Overview :

We are looking for a highly skilled Python Developer with strong hands-on experience in building web crawlers, REST APIs, and advanced Python applications. The ideal candidate should be proficient in writing clean, efficient, and scalable code, and comfortable working with asynchronous programming, multithreading, and cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities :

• Build and ship new features and fixes in a fast-paced environment.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable Python applications.
• Develop robust web crawlers and RESTful APIs.
• Write clean, secure, and maintainable code following SOLID principles.
• Design and document features, components, and systems.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams.
• Support, monitor, and maintain existing products.
• Continuously learn and improve technical expertise.

Mandatory Skills :

• 3 to 5 years of strong hands-on experience in Python
• Experience in building web crawlers and REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of multithreading and async I/O in Python
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Strong understanding of OOP/Functional Programming and clean coding practices
• Experience with Docker / Containers
• Exposure to Cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High ownership mindset and accountability

Good to Have :

• Experience with Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Contributions to Open Source Projects
• Experience working with AI APIs and tools

What the Interview Will Focus On :

• Problem-solving and coding skills
• Hands-on Python programming
• Low-Level Design
• Database Design concepts

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• API & Service Development:
• Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs for e-commerce, order management, inventory, pricing, and promotions.
• Database Management:
• Design efficient schemas and optimize performance across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Integration Development:
• Implement and maintain integrations with ERP (SAP B1, ERPNext), CRM, logistics, and third-party systems.
• System Performance & Reliability:
• Write scalable, secure, and high-performance code to support real-time retail operations.
• Collaboration:
• Work closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to ship new features end-to-end.
• Testing & Deployment:
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability improvements.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Participate in architecture discussions and propose improvements to scalability and code quality.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 3–5 years of hands-on backend development experience in Node.js, Python, or Java.
• Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL (SQL) and MongoDB/Redis (NoSQL).
• Hands-on experience with AWS / GCP and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and code review workflows.
• Good understanding of API security, data protection, and authentication frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Nice to Have

• Experience in e-commerce or omnichannel retail platforms.
• Exposure to ERP / OMS / WMS integrations.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Serverless, or Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of multi-brand or multi-country architecture challenges.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 8+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have 3+ years of experience as Engineering Manager / Team Lead role, with ownership of technical direction, delivery, and people management

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have hands-on Backend development experience using Python or Java, with frameworks such as FastAPI / Django / Spring / Express (Node.js)

Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Frontend development exposure using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience designing and building APIs, services, and integrations, including system design, PR reviews, and architectural decision-making.

Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have experience leading engineers end-to-end – mentoring, code reviews, execution planning, and improving team productivity/quality

Mandatory (Company) - Must be from Product Companies / Startups (early to growth stage), B2B SaaS + Fintech industry is highly preferred

Mandatory (Note) - This role will be 80% team management and 20% IC (hands on coding required)

Preferred

Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Company: Runo – https://runo.in

Location: Hyderabad, India

Who We Are:

Runo is a product based funded company incubated at T-Hub (IIITH Campus) and currently operating from Cyber Towers, HiTec City. We offer Call Management CRM for sales teams across the world. We are currently scaling up the engineering team to support the continued growth of the user acquisition in the global market, after a steady success in the Indian market.

The Role:

Runo is looking for a Lead Backend Developer to join our team. The lead backend developer is responsible for scaling up the existing architecture to handle billions of requests every month (We are currently at a scale of 100 million requests per month). You will be contributing in architecting the database/reporting layer to support complex queries and data exports of millions of records. You will be a lead developer responsible for development of new software products and enhancements to existing products.

Our Ideal candidate:

• Proficiency in NodeJS.
• Expert knowledge of NoSQL Databases (MongoDB is preferred)
• Hands on experience of working on products handling more than a million requests per month
• 4-8 years of relevant professional work experience 
• Self-motivated, able to work independently. Commitment to high quality.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product architecture in handling millions of requests per day.
• Optimizing the architecture for regional data zones.
• Develop high performance, reusable & bug free APIs
• Optimize the existing APIs for performance (by data denormalization/ decoupling the long running APIs using queues)
• Get familiar with the AWS Services like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, SES

What We Offer: 

• Competitive Salary
• ESOPs
• Medical Insurance

Profile:

We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.You'll be working alongside other engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure.

Job Responsibilities:

• Understand the lifecycle of a web app fully - browser-side, server-side, scalability, performance.
• Design, develop and own components of the product.
• Programming - ability to read/write enterprise quality code and make the right decision.
• Collaborate with the team and communicate effectively, to solve the problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture.
• Generalist programmer with the ability to quickly learn and use new languages.
• Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
• At ease working with a Unix based system.
• Has worked with AWS/AmazonSES/EC2/Beanstalk/S3 storage.

Key Skills:

• Strong understanding of AWS, NodeJS, MySql, ExpressJS, Angular 2.
• Strong Programming background with an understanding of the flow of the product.
• Understanding of adaptive and responsive design, and the combination of them.
• A clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, and databases.
• Has completely built a product before including deployment and connecting with the front-end.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving.
• Can write maintainable, clean code and enforce it through code reviews.
• Maintains good documentation with the code written each day.
• A capability for a great learning curve.

- Profound knowledge about state-of-the-art technologies and standards (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS, AJAX, JQuery, XML, and Linux) 

Experience with web services and Various frameworks (CakePHP, Symfony, ZEND, Laravel, etc) -

Capability to create an extension or module.

- Must be able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team 
- Experience in a structured development environment 
- Strong knowledge of Core PHP Skills & object-oriented programming (OOP) Has knowledge of any one of Git, BitBucket, SVN, etc. code management repositories. 
- Immediate joiner prefer. 
- Total Exp - 2+ to 4 years 
- Notice period - not more than 30 days

Responsibilities and Duties -

You will be taking ownership of a big project already in production. This project already has 25L registered users.