Python Backend Engineer (Microservices & APIs)
Skills
About This Role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain
- scalable backend services and REST APIs
- using Python
- Build
- microservices-based architectures
- for high-availability systems
- Develop frameworks and reusable components for
- scalable, observable, and extensible applications
- Handle
- large-scale data processing and transformation
- Optimise system performance, including
- I/O operations, concurrency, and latency
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in
- distributed production environments
- Ensure implementation of
- secure coding practices and API security standards
- Collaborate across teams to deliver robust and production-ready systems
Technical Requirements (Must Have)
- 7+ years of experience in
- Python backend development
- Strong expertise in
Python 3.x
- Hands-on experience with
Flask, FastAPI, or Django (REST APIs)
- Solid understanding of:
- Asynchronous programming (asyncio, multiprocessing)
- Concurrency and parallel processing
- Experience with
- microservices architecture
- Strong database experience:
- MongoDB (mandatory)
- PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- Experience in
- performance tuning, debugging, and monitoring
- Familiarity with
- CI/CD pipelines and distributed systems troubleshooting
Security & Architecture
- Strong understanding of
- microservices security
- Hands-on experience with:
- OAuth2
- JWT-based authentication
- API gateways
- Knowledge of
- encryption, secure API design, and access control mechanisms
- Experience building
- resilient and fault-tolerant systems
- Good to Have
- Experience with
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Exposure to
- cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Experience integrating
- AI/ML models into backend systems
- Knowledge of
- load balancing and system scaling strategies
- Exposure to
- observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing)
Domain Experience
- Experience in
Banking / Financial Services / Fintech
- preferred
- Understanding of
- enterprise-grade systems and compliance standards
Soft Skills
- Ability to
- drive technical decisions across teams
- Strong ownership and accountability
- Effective communication with
- technical and business stakeholders
- Self-driven and capable of working in
- high-pressure environments
What This Role Really Demands
- This is not a basic Python developer role.
- You are expected to:
- Build
- production-grade systems
- , not just APIs
- Understand
- system design, scaling, and failures
- Work in
- complex distributed environments
- Take ownership beyond coding
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