Lead / Staff Backend Engineer (Python + FastAPI)

Location : Hyderabad | Open to exceptional remote candidates in India

Type : Full-time

Experience : 3–5 years

Company

Superclaims – The AI-native engine that will process >

₹10,000 Cr of health insurance claims in the next 3 years. Backed by top-tier healthcare & tech founders. Already live with 2 large clients, 500+ claims / month and growing 10× in the next 12 months.

About the Role

We are looking for a battle-tested Python / FastAPI engineer who has built and scaled backend systems that serve millions of requests and process billions of rupees in transactional value.

You will be the backbone of our product – the person who turns our current (already solid) FastAPI + PostgreSQL + LangGraph stack into a bulletproof, hyper-scalable claims adjudication platform that can handle 100,000+ claims per day without blinking.

This is a player-coach role : 70% hands-on coding & architecture, 30% tech leadership and mentoring.

What You’ll Own

• End-to-end backend architecture evolution (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, LangGraph)
• Horizontal scaling strategy – async everything, connection pooling, read replicas, sharding prep, queue design
• Performance & reliability – p99
• Lead the backend team (currently 2 engineers → 6–8 in 12 months) – code reviews, architecture decisions, 1 : 1s
• API design that developers love and that can evolve for the next 5 years
• Observability & alerting – structured logging, OpenTelemetry, Grafana dashboards you actually look at
• Security & compliance – OWASP, rate limiting, JWT + session management, HIPAA-ready patterns
• Infrastructure-as-code & deployment excellence (Docker, Terraform / K8s exposure big plus)
• Tech debt payback & refactoring sprints – we ship fast, but we don’t want to drown

Must-Have

Big Bonus Points

Why Join Us

Compensation

Best-in-industry salary + generous equity (0.5–2% range) + full family health coverage

If you get excited reading FastAPI GitHub issues at 2 AM, have war stories about bringing p99 latency down from 8s to 300ms, and want to build the backend that will process 80% of India’s health claims — this is your once-in-a-career role.

Apply by sending your résumé + a short note (or link) about the toughest scaling problem you’ve solved to with subject “Lead Backend Engineer – (Your Name)”

(No recruiters please – we read every application ourselves)

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