Job Title:  Consultant | Backend + Python (Short Fuse) | Bengaluru | Engineering | Data Modernization & Migratio

The team

Deloitte’s Technology & Transformation practice can help you uncover and unlock the value buried deep inside vast amounts of data. Our global network provides strategic guidance and implementation services to help companies manage data from disparate sources and convert it into accurate, actionable information that can support fact-driven decision-making and generate an insight-driven advantage. Our practice addresses the continuum of opportunities in business intelligence & visualization, data management, performance management and next-generation analytics and technologies, including big data, cloud, cognitive and machine learning

Your work profile

We are looking for an experienced Senior Python Engineer with 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience to lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality backend services, REST APIs, and data pipelines

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python development, backend architecture, database optimization, and cloud technologies. They should be capable of designing scalable solutions, optimizing application performance, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering best practices

Key skills required: 

• Experience with 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in core Python, Python fundamentals, OOP concepts, design principles, and design patterns
• Expert-level programming skills, algorithmic thinking, code analysis, performance optimization, and large-scale refactoring
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL. Database performance tuning
• Complex SQL queries and query optimization
• Understanding of query execution plans and indexing
• Strong experience building REST APIs and hands-on production experience with Flask
• Hands-on experience with either AWS or Azure.
• If AWS (AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation)
• If Azure (Azure Function App, Azure Event Hub, Azure logging and monitoring services
• Software Engineering Practices: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Code reviews and code quality standards, Observability and monitoring, Deployment pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Strong system-design aptitude and the ability to design scalable, reliable backend architectures
• Excellent communication, ownership, collaboration, and mentoring abilities

Nice-to-have:

• Experience working with GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
• Knowledge of PostGIS
• Experience with Python spatial libraries such as Shapely
• Exposure to geospatial data processing and spatial analysis

Education:

• B. Tech / M. Tech; B.E / M.E; B.Sc. / M.Sc.; B. Com / M.com; MBA/PGDM; BCA/MCA

Location and Way of Working: 

• Base location: Chennai