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-secure, 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 o

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Hyderabad