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Lead Backend Engineer - Python

Valyx
Bangalore
6 - 8 Years

Posted on: 30/12/2025

Job Description

About Valyx :

Valyx is transforming B2B revenue management with its end-to-end automation for billing and receivables. Our AI-driven platform ensures seamless cash flow and scalable solutions for modern finance teams across industries, from e-commerce leaders to supply chain innovators.

Why Join Us :

- Impact : Shape the technical vision, architecture, and implementation of our backend platform.

- Excellence : Collaborate with a high-caliber team of engineers from Stripe, SAP Labs, Oracle, and more.

- Ownership : Influence core decisions and build a robust foundation for a rapidly scaling product.

- Autonomy & Experimentation : Take end-to-end ownershipbring ideas from concept to production, with freedom to drive new initiatives.

What Youll Do :


Responsibilities :


- Architect, design, and develop secure, scalable, modular backend services for the platform using modern Python frameworks (Flask/FastAPI) and MySQL.


- Lead all aspects of backend development for high-performance, data-intensive workflows in billings, collections, and finance automation.


- Mentor and guide backend engineers, fostering the adoption of industry best practices in code quality, testing, reviews, and documentation.

- Design and maintain robust data models, ensuring high throughput and data integrity.

- Implement asynchronous and offline processing jobs for billing/collections operations, reconciliation, and invoicing at scale.

- Oversee integration of workflows with APIs (ERP, accounting, payments, reconciliation).

- Solve complex technical challenges, from distributed architecture to real-time data collaboration.

- Own and drive backend architecture decisions for security, scaling, and reliability.

- Champion DevOps best practices for CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and deployment.

What Were Looking For :


Qualifications :

- 5 to 6 years hands-on experience architecting, developing, and scaling modern backend systems, preferably SaaS/B2B.

- Expert-level proficiency in Python (Flask/FastAPI), with solid understanding of OOP and design patterns.

- Experience designing and optimizing relational database schemas (MySQL/Postgres) for large, transactional data sets.

- Proven track record leading backend teams/projects, setting technical direction, and mentoring engineers.

- Deep understanding of API design, OAuth, webhooks, and integrations (ERP/Accounting/Payments).

- Experience with async architectures, background job queues (Celery, Redis, etc.), and event-driven workflows.

- Adept at debugging, profiling, and performance tuning high-availability systems.

- Passion for automation, financial technology, and collaborative product building.

- Startup/SaaS/fintech experience is highly valued.


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