Senior Python Engineer

ShuruTech; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Shuru Technologies Private Limited seeks a senior backend engineer to own the design, development, and scaling of backend services in a remote-first team. You will build robust APIs, design data models, and drive production reliability alongside product and engineering colleagues.

You should bring deep Python expertise with FastAPI, Django, or Flask, and strong knowledge of distributed systems, databases, and CI/CD. Remote work with international collaboration is welcomed.

Competenze

• Strong hands-on experience with Python in building, scaling, and operating production-grade backend systems.
• Experience with Python backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
• Understanding of architecture, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and REST API development.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.

Mansioni

• Own backend development from architecture and system design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Build products from scratch and scale them as usage and business complexity grow.
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable backend services using Python, FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
• Design robust REST APIs, database models, microservices, and event-driven workflows.
• Build distributed systems with fault tolerance, reliable communication, and data consistency guarantees.
• Make architecture decisions balancing performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
• Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams and take ownership of delivery and product outcomes.

Conoscenze

Python

FastAPI

Django

REST APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Security

Strumenti

Celery

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Git

Descrizione del lavoro

Shuru Technologies Private Limited | Full time

Shuru is an AI-native technology and engineering company that partners with businesses to build and scale high-impact digital products, platforms, and AI-driven solutions. We work with fast-growing organizations across industries, helping them solve complex technology challenges through strong engineering, product, data, and AI capabilities.][br]

Responsibilities

• Own backend development from architecture and system design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
  
• Build products from scratch and scale them as usage and business complexity grow.
  
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable backend services using Python, FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
  
• Design robust REST APIs, database models, microservices, and event-driven workflows.
  
• Build distributed systems with fault tolerance, reliable communication, and appropriate data consistency guarantees.
  
• Make architecture decisions balancing performance, scalability, consistency, security, and maintainability.
  
• Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
  
• Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting.
  
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure.
  
• Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance.
  
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams and take ownership of delivery and product outcomes.
  

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Python in building, scaling, and operating production-grade backend systems.
  
• Strong experience with at least one Python backend framework, such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
  
• Solid understanding of Python fundamentals, object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and multiprocessing.
  
• Strong understanding of design patterns, architectural principles, and system design.
  
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, data modeling, SQL query optimization, and REST API development.
  
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
  
• Strong understanding of distributed consistency, concurrency, scalability, fault tolerance, and failure handling.
  
• Experience with background task processing and messaging systems such as Celery, Kafka, Redis, or RabbitMQ.
  
• Knowledge of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure data handling.
  
• Working knowledge of DevOps fundamentals, including CI/CD, Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); AWS experience is also acceptable.
  
• Ability to work independently, communicate technical decisions, and mentor teammates in a remote environment.
  

Preferred Background

• Startup experience building products from 0 to 1 and scaling them from 1 to 100.
  
• Experience owning architecture and delivering greenfield products using Python.
  
• Experience building high-concurrency, low-latency, and high-throughput backend services.
  
• Familiarity with Python performance profiling, memory management, async I/O, and application optimization.
  
• Experience with distributed caching solutions such as Redis.
  
• Experience with PostgreSQL, database indexing, and query performance optimization.
  
• Experience in anti-fraud, commercial banking, fintech, or growth engineering is a plus.
  
• Comfort working with ambiguity, taking ownership, and balancing delivery speed with engineering quality.
  
• Work on challenging, large-scale engineering and data problems.
• Build modern platforms using cutting-edge cloud and data technologies.
• Work closely with experienced engineering, product, and technology leaders.
• Opportunity to take ownership of architecture and key technical decisions.
• Remote-first and collaborative work environment.
• Strong opportunities for learning, leadership, and career growth.