Python Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and scale high-throughput, low-latency transaction processing systems
• Build and optimize platform-level services and shared frameworks
• Design scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant transaction processing platforms
• Ensure consistency, idempotency, and resilience under high load
• Conduct code reviews, design documentation, and production readiness reviews

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python for production-grade backend services
• Experience with GoLang for high-performance services
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Django, or Gin frameworks
• Deep understanding of async vs sync execution models and concurrency
• Experience with Kafka for high-throughput event ingestion and processing
• Strong proficiency in MySQL
• Experience with Redis for caching and rate limiting
• Experience with Elasticsearch for indexing and search
• Experience with AWS for running high-scale distributed systems
• Strong unit and integration testing mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in performance tuning, capacity planning, and bottleneck analysis
• Experience with performance benchmarking and load testing
• Ability to design systems capable of processing 10K+ API calls per second