Senior Python Backend Developer - Flask/FastAPI

Description :

Senior Python Backend Developer

Required Skills & Experience :

- 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience (excluding internships).

- Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks (Flask/FastAPI/Django) only.

- Solid understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms.

- Experience in System Design, including scalability, caching, load balancing, and distributed systems.

- Experience in AWS services (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, etc.).

- Knowledge in Terraform or similar IaC tools.(Would be plus)

- Strong understanding of OOP concepts, design patterns, and problem-solving.

- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes (optional but good to have).

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

Qualifications :

Work location: Chennai

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent degree

- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

- 5+ years of experience leading and managing distributed engineering teams involved in

- Creating complex software products

- 10+ years of relevant experience in managing very senior technical talent in some of the

Following areas :

- Networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, MLAG, EVPN, VxLAN,

- SR-MPLS, SRv6, L3VPN

- Test Harness like Robot framework, Jinja2

- Familiarity network merchant silicon chipsets and whitebox platforms

- Software development of Network Data Path (Linux, virtual and ASIC)

- Virtualization technologies like SR-IOV, Intel DPDK, FD.io, NSX, OVS

- High Availability, ISSU, Linux networking

- Debian Build/Packaging, Linux Kernel, Kernel Networking Stack

- Experience with big data distributed systems (technology: hadoop, kafka,

- MongoDB, druid, elasticsearch, spark, influxdb, redis)

- DevOps experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or other cloud service

- Manageability frameworks such as Yang/XML