Job Description

Title: Senior Python Backend Engineer
Location: Pune/Bangalore
Exp: 6 to 8 yrs
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Core Python & Backend

• Advanced Python (including async/await, concurrency, and performance considerations)
• Asynchronous programming (asyncio, async frameworks)
• Strong experience with FastAPI, Pydantic, and modern Python typing
• Data processing experience using Polars (or similar columnar data frameworks)
• API design (RESTful APIs; familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger)

Architecture & Design

• Test-Driven Development (TDD) and strong testing practices
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Event-driven architecture

• Solid understanding of SOLID principles, GRASP, DRY, and Clean Code
• Experience applying common design patterns appropriately
• Ability to reason about trade-offs in low-level design

Quality, Reliability & Operations

• Strong unit, integration, and contract testing practices (e.g., pytest)
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability (metrics, tracing)
• Understanding of performance profiling and optimization
• Familiarity with error handling, resilience patterns, and fault tolerance

Tooling & Ecosystem

• Version control with Git and collaborative workflows (PR-based development)
• Experience working in CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker; Kubernetes a plus)
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Comfort working in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure -- any one is sufficient)

Skills Required