Weekday (YC W21)

Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Weekday (YC W21)  •  Mumbai, IN (Onsite)  •  5 days ago
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Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time

Requirements

Responsibilities:

- Build and maintain the backend services and APIs that deliver our sports intelligence products to internal teams and external clients
- Design and own service and API contracts consumed by other engineering teams, including versioning, backward compatibility, and documentation
- Build services that serve model outputs and data products reliably, including real-time and high-traffic paths
- Integrate backend services with data platforms, warehouses, and model serving layers
- Ensure services are production-ready: monitoring, alerting, logging, and clean operational handover to the teams that run them
- Contribute to architecture and technical decisions across the team
- Write well-tested, maintainable code and take part in code review

Requirements:

- 5+ years building and shipping backend services in production
- Strong Python; solid SQL and working knowledge of relational databases
- Experience designing and building REST APIs, including versioning and managing breaking changes
- Understanding of caching, and of performance and scalability in read-heavy systems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerised deployment
- Familiarity with CI/CD, testing practices, and observability tooling
- Ability to work from a specification and ask good questions when it's incomplete

Must-have skills

Machine Learning, Python, SQL

Weekday (YC W21)

About Weekday (YC W21)

AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent. At Weekday, we have built the most accurate database of talent (250mn+ people in US & India with contact data), we run outbound campaigns to identify top talent for any role you might be hiring for. We generate the highest response rates (30-40%) on our campaigns making sourcing talent as easy as making a job posting. We are backed by Y-Combinator and were also ranked #1 on Product Hunt.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Fransisco, CA
Year Founded
2021
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