Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • HR Tech • Professional Services • Software
The Role
Build and maintain production backend services and APIs to serve sports intelligence products and model outputs; design API contracts, ensure scalability and performance, integrate with data platforms and model serving layers, implement monitoring/observability, and write well-tested code while contributing to architecture and operational handover.
Summary Generated by Built In

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time


Requirements

Responsibilities:

- Build and maintain the backend services and APIs that deliver our sports intelligence products to internal teams and external clients
- Design and own service and API contracts consumed by other engineering teams, including versioning, backward compatibility, and documentation
- Build services that serve model outputs and data products reliably, including real-time and high-traffic paths
- Integrate backend services with data platforms, warehouses, and model serving layers
- Ensure services are production-ready: monitoring, alerting, logging, and clean operational handover to the teams that run them
- Contribute to architecture and technical decisions across the team
- Write well-tested, maintainable code and take part in code review

Requirements:

- 5+ years building and shipping backend services in production
- Strong Python; solid SQL and working knowledge of relational databases
- Experience designing and building REST APIs, including versioning and managing breaking changes
- Understanding of caching, and of performance and scalability in read-heavy systems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerised deployment
- Familiarity with CI/CD, testing practices, and observability tooling
- Ability to work from a specification and ask good questions when it's incomplete

Must-have skills

Machine Learning, Python, SQL

Skills Required

  • 5+ years building and shipping backend services in production
  • Strong Python
  • Solid SQL and working knowledge of relational databases
  • Experience designing and building REST APIs, including versioning and managing breaking changes
  • Understanding of caching, and of performance and scalability in read-heavy systems
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerised deployment
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, testing practices, and observability tooling
  • Ability to work from a specification and ask good questions when incomplete
  • Machine Learning
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The Company
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.

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