Senior Backend Developer

Senior Django/Python Backend Developer

Location: Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 3+ Years Total

1. Rewards & Compensation
Salary & Compensation

• Monthly Pay: ₹25,000 – ₹30,000

2. Requirements & Qualifications

We are seeking a seasoned backend developer to drive critical architectural migration and quality initiatives. The ideal candidate champions clean code and thrives in complex refactoring environments.

Essential Technical Skills

• Experience: Minimum 3 years of total backend development experience, on high-scale Django/DRF.
• Django Mastery: Strong understanding of Django internals, advanced ORM optimization, and identifying common performance pitfalls.
• Python: Expert proficiency in Python 3.x and a deep passion for writing clean, well-structured code.
• Database: Solid proficiency with PostgreSQL (or similar RDBMS), including complex SQL query writing, indexing, and transactional integrity.
• Testing: Proven history and advocacy for Test-Driven Development (TDD), ensuring high unit and integration test coverage.
• Architecture: Practical familiarity with modern architectural concepts like Monolith Decomposition and Microservices communication patterns.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with asynchronous task queues like Celery and in-memory data structures like Redis.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience contributing to deep technical audits and architectural roadmaps.

3. Key Responsibilities

This role involves leading the technical transformation of our core platform, demanding both strategic insight and hands-on execution.

Architectural Migration & Refactoring

• Audit & Design: Participate in the deep technical audit of the current Django monolith and design highly modular solutions for the new microservices architecture.
• Execution: Systematically execute the phased refactoring plan, cleaning up legacy code, eliminating technical debt, and delivering new features on the refactored system.
• Performance: Proactively identify and resolve complex performance bottlenecks caused by inefficient Django ORM usage or resource-intensive database queries.

Development & Quality Leadership

• API Development: Develop, maintain, and secure robust, high-performance RESTful APIs using DRF, including defining clear inter-service communication protocols.
• Quality Assurance: Lead by example in enforcing high code quality standards and mentorship of junior/mid-level team members on testing best practices.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the DevOps Engineer on deployment integration (Docker/CI/CD) and the Data Specialist on advanced query optimization and data modeling.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month

Experience:

• Django/DRF: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person