Senior Python Backend Developer
Wissen Technology Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
About the role
The developer will own the core processing engine and batch orchestration, ensuring performance, correctness, and scalability of financial event processing. They will also design REST APIs, manage inter-service contracts, and mentor junior backend developers.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 5-10 years of professional Python experience with expertise in SQL, PostgreSQL, and microservice architecture. A strong background in high-volume batch engineering and correctness engineering is essential for this role.
Full description
Wissen Technology is hiring for Senior Python Backend Developer
About Wissen Technology:
At Wissen Technology, we deliver niche, custom-built products that solve complex business challenges across industries worldwide. Founded in 2015, our core philosophy is built around a strong product engineering mindset—ensuring every solution is architected and delivered right the first time. Today, Wissen Technology has a global footprint with 2000+ employees across offices in the US, UK, UAE, India, and Australia. Our commitment to excellence translates into delivering 2X impact compared to traditional service providers. How do we achieve this? Through a combination of deep domain knowledge, cutting-edge technology expertise, and a relentless focus on quality. We don’t just meet expectations—we exceed them by ensuring faster time-to-market, reduced rework, and greater alignment with client objectives. We have a proven track record of building mission-critical systems across industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more. Wissen stands apart through its unique delivery models. Our outcome-based projects ensure predictable costs and timelines, while our agile pods provide clients with the flexibility to adapt to their evolving business needs. Wissen leverages its thought leadership and technology prowess to drive superior business outcomes. Our success is powered by top-tier talent. Our mission is clear: to be the partner of choice for building world-class custom products that deliver exceptional impact—the first time, every time.
Job Summary:
Own the core processing engine and the services around it, the code that turns a day of financial events into millions of journal lines inside a fixed batch window. The most performance and correctness critical seat on the team.
- Experience: 5 - 10 Years
- Location: Bangalore
- Mode of Work: Hybrid
- Education Qualification: MCA/B.E/B.Tech/MTech
Key Responsibilities & Duties:
- Own the processing engine: set-based SQL inside Python services, concurrent processing, dynamic work partitioning, dimension keys, ledger fan-out
- Own batch orchestration end to end: data-quality gate, currency translation, revaluation, snapshots, period close, every stage idempotent and resumable
- Own performance and concurrency: transaction boundaries, chunk sizing, deadlock handling with backoff, connection usage
- Design services, inter-service contracts, retry semantics and API versioning
- Design and implement REST APIs for processing, configuration and reporting
- Build accounting capability: manual journals, unposting, approval workflow, maker/checker rule lifecycle, suspense, year-end roll, GL export
- Integrate message queues with duplicate controls, dead-lettering and replay
- Write tests for data-intensive logic; mentor junior backend developers
Skills Preferred:
- 5-10 years professional Python, including asynchronous programming
- Production depth in FastAPI, Django or Flask
- Expert SQL and strong PostgreSQL: set-based design, plan awareness, upserts, isolation levels, locking
- REST API design at scale and microservice architecture in practice
- Demonstrated high-volume batch engineering, has taken a workload from hours to minutes and can explain why it worked
- Correctness engineering: idempotency, exactly-once under retry, reconciliation, financial precision
Wissen Sites:
- Website: www.wissen.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology
- Wissen Leadership: Leadership Team | Wissen
- Wissen Live: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology/posts/feedView=All
- Wissen Thought Leadership: https://www.wissen.com/articles
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