Technical Lead

Position: Python Developer

Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

Work Mode: 5 Days WFO

Availability: Immediate joiners only (or notice period completed)

What We're Looking For:

✅ 2+ years of solid Python development experience

✅ Django framework expertise - must have!

✅ FastAPI framework knowledge - essential!

✅ Database skills in MongoDB OR PostgreSQL

✅ Ready to work from office 5 days a week

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Job qualifications:

Technical Skills

• You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Professional Skills

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Other things to know:

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

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b) Work closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution
c) Design and prototype Azure solutions, create solution architecture document covering deep technical aspects of the implementation
d) Create a unified strategy for Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation and operations
e) Analyze existing application portfolios, develop next-gen application architecture, transformation and modernization roadmap
f) Conduct Azure solutions architecture review/audit and create review/audit report
g) Lead implementation of the solution from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
h) Oversee the development efforts and provide technical help as needed
i) Day-to-day lead the client through the technical and organizational challenges of Cloud transformation
j) Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities, including RFP processing, proposal development and direct communications with potential clients
k) Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices
l) Create thought leadership on Azure solutions and hybrid clouds
m) Serve as an Azure evangelist, consult and provide technical guidance on Azure solutions design, build, governance, security, operations and cost control best practices
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n) Large-scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in the following platform: .Net Core,.NET MVC, Azure, React.js, Angular
o) Designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies
p) Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
q) Deep expertise in solution architecture including web services, relational and non-relational databases, front-end and/or back-end technologies
r) Good exposure to Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI) and automated deployment
s) Experience working with highly scalable, performant and mission critical architectures
t) Avid technologist, with deep expertise in modern cloud architecture and history of successful implementation of complex Azure solution
u) Ability to suggest competitive and innovative technical decisions, get client buy-in and deliver commitments
v) Strong communication skills, ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly language
w) Analytical and problem-solving abilities
x) Azure certifications and Architecture Framework (TOGAF/IAF) are recommended

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or other related fields
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java or Python including object-oriented design
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Proven ability to take initiative and dive into new areas of technology.
• Passion for learning, analysing technology trade-offs and shipping products.
• Knowledge on SQL, NOSQL databases and AWS deployments is a plus
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly self motivated and motivating
• Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment

• You will build cutting-edge secure and scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
• You will be the owner of your feature and work directly with product teams to drive customer impact.
• You will ensure that the systems you oversee are secure, fault-tolerant and are performing reliably at high volumes.
• Constantly look at possibilities to improve the overall functioning of the product.
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environments
• You will manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• You can collaborate with globally-located cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• You will analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide estimates for implementing new features

• Full stack experience is a plus
• Understanding of complete SDLC and Agile methodologies
• Domain expertise in Financial Services, Banking or Payments
• Code Quality –Code Hygiene (Coverage, Complexity, Usability)
• Collaboration –Strong peer review standards

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++/C/Python/ROR/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.