Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 7000000 - Rs 8000000 (ie INR 70 - 80 LPA)

Min Experience: 8+ years
Location: Hyderabad
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Developer with strong backend engineering expertise to design and build scalable, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in Python, API development, database optimization, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems. You will play a key role in building robust backend services that power next-generation AI-driven products.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python.

- Build high-performance RESTful APIs using FastAPI or Flask.

- Design efficient, scalable database schemas and optimize database performance.

- Develop thread-safe, concurrent, and high-throughput backend applications.

- Build clean, reusable, and maintainable code following engineering best practices.

- Containerize applications using Docker and deploy them on Kubernetes.

- Develop and maintain API documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger.

- Optimize application performance, scalability, security, and reliability.

- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Required Skills





- 8–12 years of hands-on experience in Python backend development.

- Strong expertise in Python 3.x.

- Extensive experience with FastAPI and/or Flask.

- Strong hands-on experience with SQLAlchemy ORM, session management, and database transactions.

- Solid understanding of multithreading, concurrency, asynchronous programming, and thread-safe application development.

- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including database design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning.

- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, OpenAPI, and Swagger.

- Experience with Git, code reviews, unit testing, and software engineering best practices.

- Good understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and scalable application design.

Preferred Skills

- Experience building AI/ML-enabled applications.

- Exposure to Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging technologies.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and application performance optimization.

- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

Must-have skills

Fast API, GCP, Python

Valuable-to-have skills

Flask, Multithreading

📌 Senior Backend Engineer - Python (Hyderabad)
🏢 Nameless
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