IT Developer - Python Backend Developer

IN2 Medtronic Engineering and Innovation Center Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc is seeking a backend engineer with 3+ years of IT experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable Python services using FastAPI and other Python frameworks. You will build secure REST APIs, work with microservices, and integrate with LLM APIs and AI infrastructure.

You will deploy with Docker and Kubernetes, ensure CI/CD quality, and contribute to observability, testing, and code reviews while mentoring junior engineers within a global team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc with strong Python backend engineering expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Python and modern web frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Build secure REST APIs, asynchronous services, and reusable platform components using microservices and distributed-system architectures.
• Integrate backend services with large language models (LLMs), OpenAI-compatible APIs, model-serving platforms, and AI infrastructure.
• Develop platform capabilities supporting AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt management, Model Context Protocol (MCP), scheduling, notifications, and event-driven workflows.
• Implement background processing and messaging solutions using technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Celery, or equivalent platforms.
• Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes while maintaining CI/CD quality standards.
• Implement observability capabilities including logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and operational dashboards.
• Perform code reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Flask

Django

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

pytest

Linux

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

JWT

Kafka

RabbitMQ

LLM APIs

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

MCA

MSc

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

pytest

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Python and modern web frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Build secure REST APIs, asynchronous services, and reusable platform components using microservices and distributed-system architectures.
• Integrate backend services with large language models (LLMs), OpenAI-compatible APIs, model-serving platforms, and AI infrastructure.
• Develop platform capabilities supporting AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt management, Model Context Protocol (MCP), scheduling, notifications, and event-driven workflows.
• Implement background processing and messaging solutions using technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Celery, or equivalent platforms.
• Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes while maintaining CI/CD quality standards.
• Implement observability capabilities including logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and operational dashboards.
• Perform code reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Knowledge and Expertise

• 3+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc with strong Python backend engineering expertise.
• Experience building REST APIs using FastAPI, Flask, Django, or comparable Python frameworks.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architectures, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy or equivalent ORM technologies, and Redis.
• Experience with Docker, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing using pytest, and Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms.
• Experience integrating applications with LLM APIs, AI services, messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, and enterprise security controls including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

Nice To Have

• Experience building AI platforms, AIOps solutions, internal developer platforms, or reusable enterprise platform services.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, vector-enabled PostgreSQL, and prompt management frameworks.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent orchestration, tool calling, and AI workflow automation.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, centralized logging, and production observability practices.
• Experience supporting model-serving infrastructure, GPU-enabled workloads, Kubernetes-based AI platforms, or S3-compatible storage technologies such as MinIO.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.

A short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) is available for eligibility to this role.

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here.