Senior Backend Engineer – Python

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Experience: 6+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer – Python with strong experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience developing robust APIs, microservices, real-time systems, and production-grade backend services.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python.
Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices.
Implement real-time communication systems using WebSockets.
Design reliable and high-performance backend architectures.
Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and caching systems.
Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize production systems.
Implement monitoring and performance-tuning strategies.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code.
Collaborate with frontend and cross-functional teams for end-to-end product delivery.
Contribute to system design and distributed systems initiatives.

Required Qualifications

6+ years of software engineering/backend development experience.
Strong proficiency in Python.
Hands-on experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
Strong understanding of WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.
Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and caching mechanisms.
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Experience building scalable and highly available backend applications.
Strong debugging, performance optimization, and production-support skills.
Good understanding of software development, testing, and engineering best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on large-scale, high-availability backend systems.
Experience with cloud-based backend architectures.
Exposure to performance optimization and monitoring of production services.

Senior Backend Engineer (Python)