Senior Backend Engineer

HappyFox; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HappyFox is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Hyderabad, India to join their engineering team. In this role, you will help build and maintain products by implementing features in a robust, scalable way. You’ll collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers while incorporating best practices in software development.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with backend programming in Python and frameworks like Django or Flask. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python.
• Experience working with web application frameworks like Django or Flask.
• Experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Good communication skills with an ability to articulate your views.

Responsibilities

• Implement product features writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests.
• Conduct peer reviews to keep the codebase a great environment to work on.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high quality features.
• Bring new ideas and best practices to improve the team and the codebase.

Skills

Backend programming languages like Python

Web application frameworks (Django or Flask)

Building REST APIs

Writing performant and scalable code

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Good communication skills

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team to help build and maintain our growing list of products. You should have prior experience of being responsible for building sufficiently complex features by yourself.

Responsibilities

• Implement product features writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests
• Conduct peer reviews to keep the codebase a great environment to work on
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high quality features
• Bring new ideas and best practices to improve the team and the codebase

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional work experience
• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python
• Experience working with web application frameworks like Django or Flask
• Experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency in writing highly performant and scalable code
• Experience in building REST APIs and a good understanding of best practices around building APIs
• Good communication skills with an ability to articulate your views
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills