Company: CYURÆ
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Work Mode: Full-time, In office
Experience Required: 5+ years
Employment Type: Permanent
About the RoleWe 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 environment configurations, secrets, logging, monitoring and production alerts.
- Troubleshoot production issues

📌 Senior Backend Developer – Python, FastAPI (Gurugram)
🏢 Cyurae
📍 Gurugram