Lead Python Engineer

🚀 Hiring: Lead Python Engineer | 8+ Years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Experience: 8+ Years

Role: Lead Python Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Lead Python Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-performance backend systems.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, real-time architectures, and backend system design, along with proven experience driving technical decisions and owning systems end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services using Python.

• Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems.

• Design and develop robust REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Build real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based services.

• Drive performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.

• Lead performance optimization, monitoring, debugging, and production issue resolution.

• Establish best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD, and production readiness.

• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, DevOps, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams.

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.

• Conduct code and architecture reviews and identify technical risks.

• Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver production-grade solutions.

🛠️ Required Skills

✅ 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend expertise

✅ Strong hands-on experience with Python

✅ Strong experience building REST APIs and Microservices

✅ Strong understanding of Distributed Systems, Scalability, Fault Tolerance & High Availability

✅ Hands-on experience with WebSockets / Real-Time Backend Systems

✅ Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and caching systems

✅ Strong knowledge of performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and production operations

✅ Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean architecture

✅ Proven technical leadership and architectural decision-making experience

✅ Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and code review skills

⭐ Good to Have

• Experience working on large-scale, high-availability platforms

• Cloud platform experience

• Containerization and CI/CD experience

• Experience leading backend engineering teams or technical initiatives

• Strong understanding of observability and reliability engineering