Senior Backend Engineer - Customer Engineering
Build and maintain scalable backend products and APIs for customer-facing AI applications. The role requires 3–6 years of backend experience, strong Python and Django skills, database and distributed-systems knowledge, and sound computer science fundamentals.
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 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 a high-quality product.
Requirements
- B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech from a Tier 1 engineering institute, with relevant experience at a top technology company.
- 3–6 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 knowledge 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).
- Experience with ETL, database design, caching, Redis, Celery, CI/CD, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Skills
Python, Django, Postgres, SQL, ETL, Database Design, REST APIs, Redis, Celery, CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Natural Language Processing
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