Company: CYURÆ
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Work Mode: Full-time, On-site
Experience Required: 5+ years
Employment Type: Permanent
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, deploying and maintaining production-grade applications.
The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, FastAPI, databases, cloud infrastructure and API development, along with a good understanding of AI-enabled applications. You should be comfortable taking ownership of the complete backend lifecycle—from architecture and development to deployment, monitoring and production support.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can independently build scalable backend systems, integrate AI services, work closely with DevOps and guide junior developers.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain scalable backend systems using Python and FastAPI.
Build secure, reliable and well-documented REST APIs and asynchronous services.
Take ownership of backend architecture, database design,



API contracts and system integrations.
Develop complete backend workflows from requirement understanding to production deployment.
Integrate AI models, LLM APIs, recommendation services, embeddings and third-party AI platforms into backend applications.
Build structured and reliable APIs around AI services, including validation, retries, fallbacks, rate limiting and error handling.
Work with PostgreSQL, Redis and vector databases for transactional, caching and AI-search requirements.
Design background-processing systems using queues, workers and event-driven workflows.
Optimise backend systems for performance, scalability, security and cost.
Containerise applications using Docker and support deployment on AWS.
Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps.
Manage workplace configurations, secrets, logging, monitoring and production alerts.
Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause an

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