Python Backend Engineer

Experience: 2-5
Years

Location:
Bangalore

Type
: Full-time

About Digit88
Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high-growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with a deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners.

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best.

Who You Are

• BTech/BE CS or related discipline with 2+ years of backend experience designing, building large-scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experience developing backend systems using Python, with a deep understanding of software design, performance, and maintainability
• Proven experience with modern Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask, used in production at scale
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with a focus on scalability, versioning, and clean data modeling
• Solid working knowledge of relational/NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and handling large datasets
• Experience working with Agentic AI systems or integrating LLM-based agents into backend workflows is highly desirable for this role
• Experience building and deploying applications on AWS, leveraging services like EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch
• Familiar with microservices architecture, asynchronous programming, and event-driven systems
• Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, and setting up CI/CD pipelines for smooth and reliable deployments
• Strong understanding of backend engineering best practices: testing, observability, security, and resilience at scale
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with product, frontend, and DevOps, following agile methodologies

What You'll Do

• Design and build scalable backend systems using Python and modern frameworks like FastAPI, Django, or Flask, optimized for performance and maintainability
• Stay current with emerging backend technologies, and (ideally) explore how Agentic AI and LLM integrations can be leveraged in modern backend services
• Develop and maintain robust RESTful and GraphQL APIs that power internal systems, user-facing apps, and external integrations
• Architect distributed microservices capable of handling large-scale workloads, with a focus on fault tolerance, security, and observability
• Own data modeling and query design for relational/NoSQL databases, ensuring data integrity and query performance
• Work closely with DevOps to define and implement cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, including CI/CD, monitoring, and auto-scaling
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, frontend developers, and other engineers to define features, scope solutions, and deliver high-impact projects
• Implement asynchronous tasks and event-driven workflows using tools like Celery and message queues (e.g., Kafka, SQS)
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and influence best practices across engineering
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code, with a strong emphasis on quality and continuous improvement