Job description
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.
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.
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