Senior Python & Django Developer (5-6 Years) : Location Pune

About the Role We’re hiring two Senior Python Developers to build secure, scalable web apps and APIs using Django / Flask , ORM, and relational / no-SQL databases ( MySQL, MongoDB ). You’ll own modules end-to-end—architecture, development, testing, deployment, and performance tuning.

Key Responsibilities Design and develop RESTful APIs and backend services with Django (Django REST Framework) / Flask.

Model data with ORMs ; write efficient queries and migrations ( MySQL primary, MongoDB for document use cases).

Implement clean architecture, reusable apps, and configuration-driven settings.

Optimize performance (profiling, caching, DB indexing, pagination, async tasks with Celery / RQ).

Build automated tests (unit / integration), ensure high code coverage and CI / CD hygiene.

Secure apps (authN / authZ, OWASP, input validation, rate limiting, secrets management).

Collaborate with Product / Frontend / DevOps; review code and mentor mid / junior engineers.

Own deployments (Docker), observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and on-call rotations.

Must-Have Skills Python 3.x , Django (and / or Flask), Django REST Framework .

Strong ORM concepts, query optimization, transactions; MySQL proficiency.

Hands-on with MongoDB schema design and aggregation basics.

API design principles, versioning, idempotency, error handling.

Docker , Git, CI / CD (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket pipelines).

Testing with pytest / unittest; debugging and performance profiling.

Solid understanding of queues & background jobs (Celery / Redis / RabbitMQ).

Good-to-Have Caching (Redis), search (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch).

Messaging (Kafka), event-driven patterns.

Async Python (FastAPI, asyncio) exposure.

Frontend basics for integration (React / Vue, Axios, CORS).

Cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure), Nginx / Gunicorn / Uvicorn, Terraform basics.

Security & compliance (JWT / OAuth2, RBAC, data masking, auditing).

Qualifications B.E. / B.Tech / MCA (or equivalent experience).

5–6 years of backend development with at least 2+ complex products shipped to production.

Experience mentoring engineers or leading small squads is a plus.