Python Developer

Zorba Consulting; Hyderabad, Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zorba Consulting in India is seeking an experienced software engineer to join a backend/AI-oriented team. You will design and maintain complex stateful services, integrate secure REST APIs, and champion robust testing and CI/CD practices.

You will also own deployment, incident response, and regression testing across environments. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Python development, strong REST API skills (mTLS, OAuth2, JWT), and experience with troubleshooting production systems in a modern

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python development experience.
• Experience designing and debugging stateful, multi-step systems (state machines, session/context management, workflow engines, or protocols).
• 3+ years of REST API integration including mTLS, OAuth2, JWT client assertions, certificate lifecycle, and secret management.

Responsibilities

• Build and modify conversational flows across dialog and knowledge layers.
• RAG / knowledge-retrieval tuning.
• Own escalation logic, routing destinations, and context payloads with reason-code registration.
• Experience with LLM-driven conversation and prompt behavior.
• Integrate backend systems through the established handler layer.
• Author automated tests and maintain regression suite.
• Build and own CI/CD with validation, test execution, and gated promotion.
• Own deployment and rollback; respond to production incidents.
• Diagnose defects to root cause with regression tests for fixes.
• Maintain configuration and feature-flag governance.
• Document design, tests, and state; align with running behavior.

Skills

Python development

Stateful systems design

REST API integration

Unit testing

CI/CD

Git workflows

Production debugging

Legacy framework familiarity

Job description

• 1 Professional Python development


• 5+ years


• 2 Designing and debugging stateful, multi-step systems - state machines, session/context management, workflow engines, or protocol implementations


• 3+ years, demonstrable


• 3 REST API integration including mTLS, OAuth2, JWT client assertions, certificate lifecycle, and secret management


• 3+ years


• 4 Automated testing: unit test design, mocking, and test strategy as a correctness discipline


• 3+ years


• 5 CI/CD pipeline construction - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent


• 2+ years


• 6 Git-based branching and environment promotion workflows


• 3+ years


• 7 Production debugging from logs, traces, and metrics without interactive debugger access


• 3+ years


• 8 Reading and working within an existing framework or SDK that must not be modified


• Demonstrable

Core responsibilities

• Build and modify conversational flows across dialog, orchestration, and knowledge layers


• RAG / knowledge-retrieval tuning


• Own escalation logic: transfer conditions, routing destinations, context payload, and reason-code registration


• Experience with LLM-driven conversation: prompt behavior, guardrail design, and awareness that models generate content nobody authored


• Integrate backend systems through the established handler layer


• Author automated tests - unit tests plus platform conversation-level test cases - and maintain the regression suite


• Build and own CI/CD: validation, test execution, and gated promotion across environment tiers


• Own deployment and rollback; act as first responder for production incidents


• Independently diagnose and remediate defects to root cause, with a regression test accompanying every fix


• Own configuration and feature-flag governance


• Maintain design, test, and state documentation in alignment with running behavior


• Reconcile inbound platform changes that originate outside version control, classifying behavioral versus cosmetic impact