Software Engineer II (Fullstack) - India at Junipersquare

Junipersquare

India·6h ago

Mid LevelFull-timeTypeScriptPythonJavaReactNext.jsDjangoAWSDockerTerraformPostgreSQL

Salary Range

$20,400 - $27,600 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale secure, high-performance public-facing APIs. You will play a key role in developing robust backend services using Python, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, and AWS, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

→Design, develop, and maintain public-facing RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI
→Architect scalable backend systems with clean, modular, and testable code
→Implement asynchronous/background processing using Celery
→Design and optimise schemas and queries in PostgreSQL
→Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on AWS
→Ensure API security, authentication, authorisation, and rate limiting
→Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for production systems
→Write unit, integration tests and technical documentation
→Participate in code reviews
→Participate in architecture discussions and collaborate cross-functionally
→Ensure high availability and reliability of APIs

Requirements

✓4-6 years of experience in full-stack software development
✓Strong proficiency in Python/Java
✓Hands-on experience with FastAPI (or similar frameworks like Flask/Django REST)
✓Proven experience building and scaling public-facing APIs
✓Strong understanding of REST principles, API versioning, and backward compatibility
✓Experience with asynchronous task processing using Celery
✓Solid experience with PostgreSQL (query optimisation, indexing, transactions)
✓Strong understanding of database design and performance tuning
✓Experience with caching mechanisms such as Redis
✓Experience deploying and operating services on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS preferred)
✓Experience with API Gateway, rate limiting, and web application firewalls (WAF)
✓Strong understanding of authentication and authorisation (OAuth2, JWT)
✓Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
✓Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
✓Experience with frontend technologies (React / Next.js / TypeScript) is an added advantage