Senior Backend Engineer
Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable products and REST APIs. The role requires 2–5 years of backend experience, strong Python and Django skills, database and system design knowledge, and familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Innovate, build, and invent on behalf of customers.
- Plan, execute, and maintain entire products and features used by millions of customers.
- Design and code effective solutions for broadly defined problems.
- Drive engineering best practices and excellence.
- Collaborate with team members on the architecture and design of new and existing systems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality products.
Requirements
- B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech. degree from a tier 1 or tier 2 engineering institute, with relevant experience at a top technology company.
- 2–5 years of backend experience.
- Experience with at least one higher-level programming language, preferably Python.
- Django experience is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of relational databases, data management, and REST API design.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and databases.
Nice-to-haves
- Machine learning experience in the context of natural language processing (NLP).
Technical Competencies
- ETL
- Database design
- Caching
- CI/CD
- Cloud and containerized infrastructure
Skills
Python, Django, Postgres, SQL, ETL, Database Design, REST APIs, Redis, Celery, CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Machine Learning, NLP
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