This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 30-100 LPA)
Experience: 4+ yrs
Location: Karnataka, Bangalore
Job Type: full-time
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Engineer to join a fast-paced and technology-driven engineering environment focused on building scalable, high-performance systems for advanced trading operations. This role requires strong expertise in Python development, distributed systems, and infrastructure reliability, with the ability to contribute to mission-critical platforms operating at extremely low latency and high throughput. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical leadership capabilities and hands-on experience designing robust backend services, automation frameworks, and infrastructure solutions that support large-scale real-time systems. You will collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, and trading teams to build reliable, scalable, and performance-optimized applications while driving engineering excellence and operational efficiency. This opportunity is ideal for professionals who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working with cutting-edge technologies, and contributing to highly optimized systems in a fast-moving, innovation-focused environment.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and infrastructure components using Python
- Build high-performance applications optimized for reliability, scalability, and low-latency execution
- Lead technical initiatives and contribute to architectural decisions across engineering systems
- Develop automation frameworks, internal tooling, and operational workflows to improve engineering efficiency
- Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE teams to enhance deployment, monitoring, and reliability practices
- Implement infrastructure-as-code practices and contribute to cloud infrastructure management
- Optimize system performance, resource utilization, and operational stability across environments
- Build monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions to support production systems
- Participate in code reviews, troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization activities
- Ensure engineering best practices related to scalability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence are consistently followed
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 4+ years of strong hands-on experience in Python development and backend engineering
- Experience working in high-performance or low-latency environments such as trading, distributed systems, or large-scale platforms
- Strong understanding of scalable architecture, system design, and infrastructure engineering principles
- Proven technical leadership and ownership mindset with the ability to drive engineering initiatives independently
- Experience with DevOps, SRE practices, cloud infrastructure, and automation workflows
- Familiarity with AWS, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring systems, and reliability engineering concepts
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and debugging capabilities
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure engineering environments
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with a strong focus on engineering quality and execution
