Published on June 11, 2025. Modified on June 13, 2025.
Senior Backend Developer
Location: Chennai
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Develop Backend Systems: Develop robust, scalable, and secure backend services using Python, ensuring seamless integration across banking, e-commerce, and e-learning modules.
- API Development: Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and Graph QL APIs that are consumed by web and mobile front-end applications.
- Database Management: Design, optimize, and manage databases, ensuring high availability, security, and data integrity.
Experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgre SQL, My SQL) and No SQL databases (e.g., Mongo DB, Redis) is essential.
- Microservices Architecture: Develop and maintain microservices that support the platform's diverse functionalities, ensuring they are independently deployable and scalable.
- Security: Implement security best practices to protect sensitive information, including encryption, secure authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize application performance, ensuring low latency and high throughput.
- Integration: Work closely with third-party services to integrate payment gateways, learning management systems, and other critical services.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with front-end developers, Dev Ops engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of end-to-end solutions.
- Testing & Debugging: Write unit tests, perform code reviews, and engage in debugging activities to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for all backend services, APIs, and data structures.
Required Skills and Qualifications :
- Strong experience in Python, with a deep understanding of Fast API
- Experience with relational and No SQL databases.
Proficiency in writing optimized SQL queries and designing database schemas.
- Strong experience in developing RESTful and Graph QL APIs.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for deploying and managing services.
- Proficiency with Git and Git Hub/Git Lab for version control and collaborative development.
- Understanding of security best practices in software development, including OWASP standards.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Prior experience working on platforms within the banking, e-commerce, or e-learning sectors is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Hands-on experience in developing and managing microservices architectures.
- Basic understanding of Dev Ops practices and tools like Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Experience working in Agile environments with familiarity in Scrum or Kanban.
