Job DescriptionPosition: Staff Backend Engineer – Python / SQL / Data-Intensive Systems
NLocation: Hyderabad
NWork Mode: Hybrid
NWe are looking for a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to own the core computation services powering a data-intensive financial and operational platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building correct, reproducible, traceable, and auditable computation systems not dashboards or LLM wrappers.
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Own backend services performing complex financial and operational computations N
Build reusable, configuration-driven computation components and rules engines N
Design high-performance, set-based computation using advanced SQL N
Ensure every result is reconcilable, reproducible, and traceable to source N
Build configuration runtimes that enable new domains/use cases without bespoke code paths N
Implement guardrails, audit logging, lineage, feature controls, and confidence signals N
Design for multi-tenant, multi-cloud and customer-hosted deployments with solid isolation N
Set engineering patterns,
review designs and mentor backend engineers N
Partner with Data, AI and Product teams to translate complex domain logic into scalable services N
nTechnical Skills:
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Python | SQL | Snowflake | PostgreSQL | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform N
Experience with configuration-driven/rules-engine architectures and large-scale data computation is highly valued. N
nExperience:
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8+ years of backend engineering experience with significant Staff/Senior Staff-level ownership N
Robust expertise in Python, Go, Java or similar backend technologies N
Elite SQL skills — window functions, complex joins, data modeling and performance optimization N
Proven experience building data-intensive, configuration-driven service architectures N
Robust system design expertise across reliability, scalability, isolation and reproducibility N
Deep focus on correctness, testing, t