Job Description

About The Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, cloud-native backend systems using Django and FastAPI, while directly managing a team of engineers. This is a player-coach role combining hands-on backend architecture ownership with people management — you'll own service design, database performance, and API reliability, while also managing the day-to-day performance, growth, and output of your direct reports. A meaningful slice of the work involves LLM-powered features: RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and integrations with vector databases. You'll drive technical decisions, manage and mentor engineers, and be a hands-on senior IC who can also lead design discussions.

Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable, high-performance backend services using Django and FastAPI
- Lead technical design discussions and conduct architecture reviews for new features and systems
- Create, maintain, and document RESTful APIs with a focus on reliability, security, and versioning
- Design efficient database schemas,



optimize complex queries, and ensure data integrity (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions leveraging microservices and serverless architectures
- Conduct thorough code reviews and enforce coding standards across the team
- Provide effort estimations for project and sprint planning
- Guide and mentor engineers on best practices and technical growth, in addition to formal management duties above
- Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps to drive projects to completion
- Document technical specifications, architecture decisions, and API contracts

Requirements
- 5–7 years of backend development experience with solid, demonstrated proficiency in Django and FastAPI
- 1–2 years of direct people management experience — formal reporting relationships
- Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and Django ORM
- Hands-on experience with Docker containerization
- Understanding of m

📌 Senior Software Engineer Backend (Bengaluru)
🏢 Codemonk
📍 Bengaluru