Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Position: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Experience: 3–7 years

Job Overview

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 3–7 years of experience to join our Software Development team. You'll own the backend of analytics-driven web applications end to end - building scalable APIs, designing data models, and ensuring the systems that power our data visualization and tracking products are fast, reliable, and maintainable. The ideal candidate is a strong Python developer who takes ownership, writes clean code, and uses modern tooling (including AI) to ship quality work on time.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable backend services and RESTful APIs using Python.
• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned features - from design through implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
• Model and optimize data storage across SQL and NoSQL databases to support analytics workloads.
• Build and maintain integrations that serve clean, structured data to the frontend and analytics layers.
• Participate actively in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices.
• Translate business and product requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Use AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate delivery without compromising code quality.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the backend stack with initiative.
• Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and well-tested code.

Required Skills

• 3–7 years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with at least one Python web framework - Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Solid experience with both RDBMS (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Strong command of Git/GitHub and version control workflows.
• Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Sound understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., pytest).
• Comfort integrating AI tools into daily development to improve speed and quality.
• Strong problem-solving ability and logical reasoning.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker).

Good to Have

• Exposure to frontend fundamentals (JavaScript/React).
• Experience working with large or analytics-heavy datasets.
• Set up and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and AWS-based infrastructure.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.