Position: Backend Engineer / Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Experience: 6+ Years

• Backend Engineer: 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade backend services at scale.
• Lead Backend Engineer: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of backend architecture, technical leadership, and development of highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Strong experience working on distributed, high-availability backend systems in production environments.

Core Technical Skills

Python & Backend Development

• Expert-level proficiency in Python for server-side application development.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented and functional programming concepts, clean code principles, design patterns, and writing maintainable, testable production code.
• Hands-on experience with at least one modern Python web or asynchronous framework such as FastAPI, aiohttp, Flask, or equivalent.




• Strong understanding of WSGI and ASGI application models and their implications for synchronous and asynchronous workloads.
• Experience developing scalable, modular backend services and integrating them with internal and external systems.

Service & API Design

• Strong experience designing and implementing production-grade REST APIs and/or gRPC services.
• Understanding of different API communication patterns, including:
• Request/response APIs
• Streaming and asynchronous communication
• Pagination and filtering
• API versioning
• Idempotency and safe retry mechanisms
• Authentication and authorization

• Ability to design transparent, consistent, and backward-compatible API contracts.
• Experience evolving APIs and services without disrupting existing consumers or dependent systems.
• Strong understanding of API performance, scalability, security, and reliability considerations.

Database & Data Layer

• Strong proficiency in SQL, relational database concepts, and data modeling.
• Experience

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