Senior Backend Engineer (Python) at Weekday AI · Mumbai

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5+ years

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

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