Python Backend Developer – Django/FastAPI Opportunity

Winzons; India; On-site; INR 1,300,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Unlimited holidays

Hybrid Working (36 days WFH a year)

Monthly Employee Awards

Small monthly training budget

Company events

Free lunch in Bangalore

MacBook

Job summary

MishiPay in Bangalore, India, seeks a Python Backend Developer to join the engineering squad in a hybrid full-time role. You will work on core infrastructure, deliver tools to enhance in-store experiences, and require expertise in Python, Django and FastAPI for a high-velocity, scaling product business.

Top-tier university background preferred and collaboration with cross-functional teams is expected. You will help reduce tech debt, deploy robust systems, and ensure scalable performance to

Qualifications

• 3–5 years development experience with Python backend
• Experience with Django and FastAPI in scalable environments
• Experience building microservices from scratch for high traffic
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on with cloud and container orchestration technologies

Responsibilities

• Deliver stable backend services with high availability
• Scale infrastructure to handle thousands of transactions
• Design, code and implement new features and fixes
• Reduce technical debt and evolve architecture
• Mentor junior engineers
• Produce high-quality technical documentation

Skills

Python

Django

FastAPI

Microservices

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree from a Top Tier University

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

DynamoDB

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Company Name: MishiPay

Job Role: Python Backend Developer

Work Type: Full-Time / Hybrid

Job Category: Software Development / Backend Engineering

Experience: 3–5 Years

Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree from a Top Tier University

Salary: Competitive Salary + 20% Bonus

Location: Bangalore, India

About The Role

• We are looking for 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, FastAPI, 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.
• Youll work closely with the Director 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.
• Youll 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 MishiPays 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

• 3 to 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
• Hands-on experience with event-driven services and technologies like Kafka, Amazon SQS, Apache Spark etc
• Worked in a startup that has seen scale or coming from an entrepreneur background
• Experience of fintech, retail-system and technologies

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