Job Description

Designation: Senior Backend Data & Integration Engineer (Python/TypeScript, Azure, Integrations)
Experience: 4 -8 Years
Location: Cochin
Job Summary
Build data pipelines (crawling/parsing, deduplication/delta, embeddings) and connect external systems and interfaces.
Key Responsibilities:
Development of crawling/fetch pipelines (API-first; playwright/requests only where permitted)
Parsing/normalization of job postings & CVs, deduplication/delta logic (seen hash, repost heuristics)
Embeddings/similarity search (controlling Azure OpenAI, vector persistence in pgvector)
Integrations: HR4YOU (API/webhooks/CSV import), SerpAPI, BA job board, email/SMTP
Batch/stream processing (Azure Functions/container jobs), retry/backoff, dead-letter queues
Telemetry for data quality (freshness, duplicate rate, coverage, cost per 1,000 items)
Collaboration with FE for exports (CSV/Excel, presigned URLs) and admin configuration
Must Have Requirements:
4+ years of backend/data engineering experience
Python (FastAPI, pydantic, httpx/requests, Playwright/Selenium), solid TypeScript for smaller services/SDKs
Azure: Functions/Container Apps or AKS jobs, Storage/Blob, Key Vault, Monitor/Log Analytics
Messaging: Service Bus/Queues, idempotence & exactly-once semantics, pragmatic approach
Databases: PostgreSQL, pgvector, query design & performance tuning
Clean ETL/ELT patterns, testability (pytest), observability (OpenTelemetry)
Nice-to-have:
NLP/IE experience (spaCy/regex/rapidfuzz), document parsing (pdfminer/textract)
Experience with license/ToS-compliant data retrieval, captcha/anti-bot strategies (legally compliant)
Working method: API-first, clean code, trunk-based development, mandatory code reviews
Tools/stack: GitHub, GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, Docker, pnpm/Turborepo (Monorepo), Jira/Linear, Notion/Confluence
On-call/support: rotating, "you build it, you run it"

Skills Required