Python Backend Engineer

Nineleaps; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nineleaps in Hyderabad is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of scalable services using Python. You will own technical direction for backend systems, design robust RESTful APIs and microservices, and mentor engineers across teams.

You will drive performance, reliability, and security, optimize workloads, implement observability, CI/CD, and production readiness, and work closely with frontend, product, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend focus.
• Strong expertise in Python and production-grade backend applications.
• Proven experience designing REST APIs and microservices architectures.
• Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, HA.
• Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time integrations.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching, data-intensive workloads.
• Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging.
• Strong engineering principles, design patterns, and clean code.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services using Python.
• Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems.
• Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems for high-scale workloads.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Review code and architecture designs, identify risks, and drive improvements.

Skills

Python

Backend

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

WebSockets

SQL/NoSQL

Performance optimization

CI/CD

Code reviews

Job description

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services using Python.
• Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.
• Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems capable of handling high-scale workloads.
• Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based services, where required.
• Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.
• Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and production issue resolution.
• Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD, and production readiness.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, contributing to overall team growth and engineering excellence.
• Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements across backend systems.
• Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable, production-grade solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend development.
• Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend applications.
• Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and high-availability architectures.
• Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.
• Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive
• Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.

Skills:- Python and Systems design