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.

Design, develop and maintain scalable backend systems using Python and FastAPI.

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.

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.

Write clean, maintainable and testable code with proper unit and integration testing.

Mentor junior and mid-level developers and help maintain engineering standards.

Collaborate with AI, mobile, frontend, product, QA and UI/UX teams.

5+ years of qualified backend

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