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The role involves building robust APIs, developing backend components, optimizing application performance, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable and high-quality software solutions.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\n1. Backend Development:\n\n- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python.\n\n- Build robust, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.\n\n- Develop reusable and maintainable code following software engineering best practices.\n\n- Work on application architecture, database integration, and service development.\n\n- Debug and resolve application issues across development, testing, and production environments.\n\n2. API & Service Development:\n\n- Design and develop RESTful APIs and backend services.\n\n- Integrate internal and external APIs and third-party services.\n\n- Implement authentication, authorization, validation, logging, and error handling.\n\n- Optimize APIs for scalability, performance, and reliability.\n\n- Ensure API documentation and coding standards are maintained.\n\n3. Database & Performance Optimization:\n\n- Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases to design efficient data models.\n\n- Write optimized queries and improve database performance.\n\n- Identify application bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.\n\n- Ensure data consistency, security, and reliability across backend services.\n\n4. Engineering Excellence:\n\n- Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering standards.\n\n- Write unit and integration tests to ensure application quality.\n\n- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.\n\n- Follow Agile development practices and contribute to sprint planning and technical discussions.\n\n- Contribute to CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and deployment processes.\n\n5. Cross-Functional Collaboration:\n\n- Collaborate with frontend engineers, QA, DevOps, product managers, and architects.\n\n- Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.\n\n- Participate in architecture and design discussions.\n\n- Provide technical estimates and contribute to project planning.\n\n- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives.\n\nRequired Skills & Qualifications:\n\n- 4 - 8 years of experience in software development / backend engineering.\n\n- Strong hands-on experience with Python.\n\n- Experience with Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.\n\n- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and backend architecture.\n\n- Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.\n\n- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or similar technologies.\n\n- Experience with Git, CI/CD, testing frameworks, and software development lifecycle.\n\n- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and design principles.\n\n- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.\n\n- Good problem-solving and analytical skills.\n\nPreferred Skills:\n\n- Exposure to AWS/Azure/GCP or other cloud platforms.\n\n- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.\n\n- Understanding of message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.\n\n- Experience developing distributed and high-volume applications.\n\n- Exposure to system design and scalable architecture.\n\n- Familiarity with observability, logging, monitoring, and performance engineering.\n\nSkills\nPython, Django, Flask, REST API, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Backend Architecture, FastAPI, Microservices Architecture","description_format":"text","description_chars":3662,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T18:04:06Z"}],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":0.85,"p_active":0.665,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":16,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["seen:16","velocity","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hrizen-software-engineer-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hrizen-software-engineer-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T02:39:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1868,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3132,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}