Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work with a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
• Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python/Node.js .
• Own modules to develop and amp; deliver in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications.
• Integrate software components and third-party program libraries.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing applications.
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
• Do high-level technical design with guidance, functional modelling, break-down of the module by thinking platforms and re-use.
• Monitoring performance, optimising the architecture and advising on any necessary infrastructure changes to suit your application needs.
  

Requirements

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in Python/Django, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
• Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/rabbitmq and task orchestration.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e. g., ECS, Lambda, S3 RDS, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.