Python Backend Engineer

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.

• Strong 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