Key Responsibilities

- Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services

using Python.

- Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.

- Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

capable of handling high-scale workloads.

- Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based

services, where required.

- Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.

- Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and

production issue resolution.

- Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD,

and production readiness.

- Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other

cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, contributing to overall team growth

and engineering excellence.

- Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements

across backend systems.

- Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable,

production-grade solutions.





Required Skills & Qualifications

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend

development.

- Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend

applications.

- Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices

architectures.

- Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and

high-availability architectures.

- Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.

- Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive

applications.

- Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and

production operations.

- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean

architecture.

- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.

- Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

- Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.

Skills

- Python and Systems design

📌 Python Backend Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Nineleaps
📍 Hyderabad