Backend Software Engineer

Position:
Backend Software Engineer - Python & Django

Company:
Devsinc

Location:
Pakistan, Lahore

Employment type:
Full time

Short Summary:
Devsinc is looking to hire a skilled Software Engineer - 1 to help deliver scalable, secure, and enterprise-grade software solutions. You will design, develop, deploy, and maintain high-performance backend applications and cloud-native services using modern Python technologies.

Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain production-grade backend applications using Python and Django/Django REST Framework (DRF), FastAPI, or Flask.
- Build secure, scalable, and high-performance RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed backend services.
- Contribute to backend system design, including service boundaries, database selection, caching, asynchronous processing, and API architecture.
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Develop and maintain containerized applications and automated deployment pipelines using Docker and CI/CD tools.
- Design and optimize relational and NoSQL databases, queries, caching strategies, and data-access layers.
- Implement background processing and event-driven workflows using Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar technologies.
- Monitor application performance, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system availability, reliability, and scalability.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, participate in code reviews, and maintain technical documentation.

Requirement:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of post-graduation professional experience in Python backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Python, with extensive hands-on experience in Django and Django REST Framework (DRF).
- Familiarity with FastAPI or Flask is an added advantage.
- Proven experience developing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade backend applications and RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, microservices, API design, software design patterns, scalability, and secure application development.
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, or similar services).
- Experience with Docker, containerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Hands-on experience implementing asynchronous processing using Celery, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
- Experience writing automated tests using PyTest, Unittest, or similar testing frameworks.
- Strong analytical, debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.