Senior Software Developer - Python

Mployee.me; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mployee.me in Mumbai/Bangalore is seeking a Senior Software Developer to design, implement, and scale Python services in a hybrid environment. You will work on message-driven architectures, data stores, and REST APIs, ensuring robust performance for long-running processes.

The role requires 5+ years of Python development on Linux, strong debugging skills, and experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns. collaboration across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python development on Linux.
• Strong production experience with Python 3 and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with REST APIs, FastAPI or Flask, and OpenAPI.
• Experience with message-driven services and RabbitMQ or equivalent.
• Experience with MongoDB/PostgreSQL/Redis and data modeling for event-heavy workloads.
• Knowledge of Linux systemd, networking, and log handling.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend Python services; fix defects and tune performance.
• Containerize and deploy services on Kubernetes with health checks and resource limits.
• Integrate Python services with other platform components via approved APIs and messaging.
• Write tests, documentation, and runbooks; participate in code reviews; mentor peers.

Skills

Python 3

Message-driven services

Data stores

APIs

Network and protocol work

Rule and analysis engines

Containers

Quality

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

MongoDB

PyMongo

Motor

PostgreSQL

Redis

FastAPI

Flask

Docker

Docker Compose

Kubernetes

Scapy

Paramiko

Job description

Role: Software Development (Senior)

Experience Level: 5 to 7 Years

Work location: Mumbai, Bangalore

Must-Have Skills

• Python 3: Strong production experience; asyncio, multiprocessing and threading, packaging and dependency management, typing.
• Message-driven services: RabbitMQ (pika/Celery or equivalent), worker and scheduler patterns, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling.
• Data stores: MongoDB (PyMongo/Motor), PostgreSQL and Redis; schema and index design for event-heavy workloads.
• APIs: REST services with FastAPI or Flask; authentication, validation, OpenAPI.
• Network and protocol work: Packet parsing or capture libraries (e.g. Scapy), syslog/CEF, SNMP, SSH (paramiko), OPC UA clients (asyncua).
• Rule and analysis engines: Regular-expression and pattern processing, rule evaluation, tagging and enrichment pipelines.
• Containers: Docker images for Python services, Docker Compose to Kubernetes migration, health checks, resource limits.
• Quality: pytest, mocking, integration testing, profiling and memory/CPU tuning of long-running services.
• Linux: systemd, networking, permissions, log handling.

Good-to-Have Skills

• C/C++ (extension modules, libpcap) for packet-capture and recording components.
• Helm, Prometheus/Grafana; Go; basic anomaly detection or ML pipelines.
• Industrial protocols and OT/ICS exposure; Windows Event Forwarding concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend Python services; fix defects and tune performance.
• Containerize and deploy services on Kubernetes with correct resource limits and health checks.
• Integrate the Python services with other platform components through approved APIs and messaging.
• Write tests, documentation and runbooks; take part in code reviews; mentor peers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional Python development on Linux.
• Strong analytical skills; clear communication; client-facing experience preferred.