We are looking for a Senior Backend Python Developer to join a high-impact engineering team in Bangalore and play a pivotal role in building the next-generation predictive analytics platform for the global retail grocery sector.
This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership expectations, working on a cloud-native, production-scale product that processes massive datasets and powers real-time insights for large retail chains.
Exp: 6-12 years
Location: Bangalore
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs primarily in Python
- Own the full data layer architect and optimize MySQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j graph databases
- Implement robust security, authentication, and authorization frameworks
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage production deployments on Kubernetes (EKS)
- Leverage AWS ecosystem extensively: Lambda (serverless), S3, EC2, RDS, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, etc.
- Drive performance tuning, query optimization, backup/recovery strategies, and monitoring
- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and actively participate in architecture discussions
- Collaborate closely with Frontend, DevOps, QA, Data Science, and Product teams
Must-Have Skills & Experience
- 812 years of backend engineering experience on commercialized, customer-facing cloud products
- 5+ years of deep Python expertise (FastAPI/Flask/Django, async programming, pytest, etc.)
- Proven production experience with MySQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j (Cypher queries, graph modeling)
- Strong SQL proficiency and database performance tuning
- Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Solid experience with core AWS services Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation/Terraform
