Senior Python Developer (Backend)

Senior Python Developer / Backend Developer

MishiPay

Bangalore

Salary plus 20% bonus

Unlimited Holidays

About Us

About MishiPay

next-generation checkout technology,

self-checkout, Mobile POS, Click & Collect

Our technology reduces operating costs, increases basket size and visit frequency, lowers abandonment, and unlocks rich, real-time customer data, delivering both immediate commercial impact and deeper insight into the in-store customer journey. We now have major international retail customers in the UK, Europe, Middle East and the USA, and we’re expanding!

About The Role

We are looking for Senior Python Backend Developers to join our talented engineering squad. The team is responsible for our main infrastructure and delivering the necessary tools to create the best in-store experience possible. You MUST have experience in Python, Django, and within a scaling product business, as you will need to work at speed. You will also be used to change.

You will also have studied at a top tier University.

You’ll work closely with the VP of Engineering and other squad members, alongside the Product, Payment, Security and Delivery teams achieving the roadmap which has been set against our top business priorities. You’ll work on getting rid of tech debt, deploy best in class systems and architecture and ensure that we can scale to 1000s of stores while maintaining system performance at over 99.9% at the push of a button.

You should have experience building microservices from scratch that have over time scaled to millions of requests, experience working with retail systems such as inventory, promotions, ERP, EPOS, loyalty programmes or payments in a physical or online retail environment is a huge plus for this position. If you're a startup enthusiast who is passionate about solving complex problems and wants to learn something new everyday, we'd absolutely love to speak to you!

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver stability of over 99.95% across MishiPay’s key platforms

• Achieve ability to scale the infrastructure so it can handle up to 100k transactions a day

• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements improve performance of large scale services.

• Actively work to clear tech-debt as we continue developing new technology.

• Coach and mentor junior team members

• Prepare high quality technical documentation

Required Experience

• 4-5 years development experience using Python programming language (preferably also knows NodeJS)

• Experience with at least one relational like PostgreSQL, MySQL & also one NoSQL database like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB

• Hands on experience with at least one major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or GCP (Azure preferred)

• Hands-on experience with at least one of the deployments-orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm etc

• (bonus) Hands-on experience with event-driven services and technologies like Kafka, Amazon SQS, Apache Spark etc

• (bonus) Worked in a startup that has seen scale or coming from an entrepreneur background

• (bonus) Experience of fintech, retail-system and technologies

Why MishiPay?

You’ll work with an inspirational multi-cultural team, based in our Dubai HQ, the US, London and Bangalore, who are redefining the retail industry globally. We offer a tight-knit, collaborative and exciting work environment, coupled with the opportunity to see the apps we develop live in action within some of the world’s largest retailers, impacting the lives of millions of shoppers.

We also offer:

• Bonuses

• Unlimited holidays

• Hybrid Working (36 days WFH a year)

• Monthly Employee Awards• A small monthly training budget

• Company events

• Free lunch in Bangalore

• MacBook

• Career progression and a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in tech

• Options depending on experience level

If you meet the above mentioned qualifications, we would love to hear from you. You can reach out to me at sanjana@mishipay.com