Role & responsibilities

Technical Leadership

- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend applications using Python and Django.

- Define and review backend architecture, technical solutions, coding standards, and development practices.

- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to quality, security, scalability, and maintainability standards.

- Guide developers in solving complex technical and architectural problems.

- Identify technical risks and provide appropriate solutions.

- Drive technical improvements, refactoring, and performance optimization.

- Stay current with emerging Python, backend, cloud, and software architecture practices.

Team Leadership

- Lead and mentor a team of Python/backend developers.

- Allocate tasks and monitor development progress.

- Conduct technical discussions and provide guidance to team members.

- Support developers in resolving technical blockers.

- Review team performance and contribute to technical capability development.

- Promote engineering best practices, knowledge sharing, and collaborative working.

- Work closely with QA, frontend, DevOps, and product teams to ensure smooth delivery.

Client Management

- Act as a technical point of contact for the client.

- Participate in client meetings and technical discussions, including during overlapping international hours as needed.

- Understand client requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

- Explain technical approaches, limitations, risks, and timelines to clients in a clear manner.

- Handle technical clarifications and resolve client concerns.

- Build strong and professional relationships with client stakeholders.

- Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, dependencies, and technical issues.

- Manage expectations and ensure alignment between client requirements and engineering deliverables.

Development & Delivery

- Develop and review high-quality Python/Django code when required.

- Design and develop RESTful APIs and backend services.

- Work with relational and NoSQL databases.





- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

- Ensure appropriate unit testing, integration testing, logging, and monitoring.

- Collaborate with DevOps teams on deployment and production support.

- Participate in production issue investigation and root-cause analysis.

- Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines and quality standards.

Preferred candidate profile

Technical

- 8+ years of professional software development experience.

- Strong hands-on experience with Python.

- Strong expertise in Django / Django REST Framework.

- Strong understanding of backend architecture and application design.

- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.

- Strong knowledge of SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL/MySQL.

- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is an advantage.

- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and Python best practices.

- Experience with Git/GitHub or similar version control systems.

- Good understanding of application security, scalability, performance, and reliability.

- Experience with unit testing and automated testing practices.

- Understanding of cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Leadership

- 5+ years of proven experience leading or mentoring backend development teams.

- Ability to conduct code reviews and technical discussions.

- Experience breaking down requirements into technical tasks.

- Ability to estimate development effort and identify technical dependencies.

- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

- Ability to balance technical quality with business requirements and delivery timelines.

Client Management

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Comfortable participating in client-facing meetings, including outside standard hours when required.

- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Experience gathering requirements and clarifying business needs.

- Ability to handle client escalations and technical discussions professionally.

- Robust stakeholder management skills.

📌 Senior Python Dev / Technical Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Kodecorp
📍 Hyderabad