Why This Role Stands Out
Elevate your career as a Python Developer with Weekday AI, where you'll build impactful, scalable backend applications using cutting-edge technologies like FastAPI and Kubernetes. This role offers significant growth potential and the opportunity to refine your skills in microservices and cloud-native development, making it ideal for experienced developers eager to contribute to innovative projects. Seize this chance to join a dynamic team and advance your career in a rewarding environment.
Quick Overview
Job Description
This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 5 - 25 LPA)
Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced Python Developer with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend applications and APIs. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, FastAPI, and Kubernetes, along with a solid understanding of modern backend engineering practices, microservices, containerization, and cloud-native application development.
You will be responsible for building reliable and high-performance backend services, developing RESTful APIs, integrating third-party systems, and contributing to the architecture and deployment of scalable applications. The role requires strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to work closely with engineering, product, QA, and DevOps teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python.
- Build high-performance, secure, and maintainable REST APIs using FastAPI.
- Develop and maintain microservices and backend components supporting business-critical applications.
- Design efficient application architecture, data flows, and API integrations.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Kubernetes.
- Work with Docker and Kubernetes-based environments to ensure reliable application deployment and scalability.
- Optimize backend services for performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability.
- Integrate external APIs, databases, messaging systems, and other third-party services.
- Implement appropriate logging, monitoring, error handling, and security practices.
- Collaborate with frontend developers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices.
- Identify and resolve production issues and contribute to continuous improvement of backend systems.
- Write clean, modular, reusable, and well-documented code.
Must-Have Skills
Python
- Strong hands-on experience with Python development and object-oriented programming.
- Excellent understanding of Python frameworks, libraries, data structures, exception handling, and asynchronous programming.
- Experience building scalable and production-grade backend applications.
FastAPI
- Strong experience developing RESTful APIs using FastAPI.
- Understanding of API design, request validation, authentication, authorization, dependency injection, and asynchronous APIs.
- Experience integrating FastAPI services with databases and external systems.
Kubernetes
- Strong practical experience with Kubernetes for deploying and managing backend applications.
- Understanding of Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, namespaces, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Experience working with containerized applications and cloud-native environments.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with pytest for unit testing, integration testing, mocking, and test automation.
- Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing, validation, debugging, and documentation.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Git, and cloud platforms.
- Understanding of microservices architecture, observability, logging, and monitoring tools.
- Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases.