Industry & Sector
A cloud-native Enterprise Software & SaaS engineering organization focused on building scalable, low-latency backend systems and APIs for modern web and data platforms. The engineering team designs microservices, event-driven systems, and production-ready services deployed on container orchestration platforms.
Role: Senior Backend Engineer Cloud Native (Python) | Remote India
About The Opportunity
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and deliver highly available, secure, and performant backend services powering next-generation SaaS products. You will own critical service boundaries, API contracts, and cloud infrastructure automation to ensure services scale linearly with demand and meet strict SLAs.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable Python microservices and backend APIs using established frameworks and best practices.
- Build and operate containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment manifests, autoscaling rules, and health checks.
- Author robust API contracts (REST/gRPC), versioning strategies, and integration patterns for internal and external consumers.
- Collaborate with platform and SRE teams to implement observabilitymetrics, distributed tracing, and alerting for reliability and performance tuning.
- Implement data persistence and caching strategies using relational databases and in-memory stores; optimize queries and schema for scale.
- Drive CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code practices, and code-quality standards to accelerate safe delivery and continuous improvement.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- 4+ years of backend development experience with production Python services.
- Proven experience building RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
- Hands-on experience with FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks.
- Strong containerization and orchestration skills: Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3).
- Practical knowledge of relational databasesPostgreSQLand caching layers (Redis/memcached).
Preferred
- Experience with asynchronous programming (asyncio) and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with streaming platforms or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform/CloudFormation) and observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana).
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- Fully remote role with flexible hours and India-based hiring.
- Opportunity to own end-to-end services and influence architecture decisions.
- Collaborative engineering culture emphasizing code quality, mentorship, and continuous learning.
We welcome high-impact engineers who thrive on solving hard scalability and reliability challenges in cloud environments. Apply to join a team that values ownership, measurable outcomes, and engineering excellence.
Skills: cloud,scalable,python
