About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, architect, and scale complex Python-based backend systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and efficiency.
- Optimise applications for speed, scalability, resource utilisation, and high concurrency.
- Build systems capable of handling large data volumes and compute-intensive workloads.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate business requirements into scalable architectures.
- Work with databases and storage technologies such as Redis, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse.
- Drive coding standards, code quality, testing, and deployment best practices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of backend development experience, primarily using Python/Java/Golang in production environments.
- Strong experience in scaling high-performance, compute-intensive, and I/O-intensive applications.
- Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience handling high concurrency and optimising large-scale systems.
- Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse.
- Experience in fintech or financial services is an added advantage.
- Good understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, and production deployment practices.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.