Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack (Payments)
Location: Gurugram, India | Industry: Healthcare SaaS / Dental Technology

Compensation: 30-50 LPA

About the Company

• We build a market-leading dental practice management platform used by clinics to manage scheduling, patient records, billing, reporting, and marketing automation.

• Our mission is to help dental teams run efficient practices and improve patient care through integrated workflows and data-driven insights.

The Opportunity

• Own the full-stack architecture for payments inside a high-scale dental SaaS platform.

• Build resilient systems that help thousands of practices collect revenue reliably across North America.

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership: define architecture, break down projects, mentor engineers, and run high-quality design/code reviews.

• Build and scale backend services and REST APIs using Python + Django, with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, indexing, transactions, and query performance; manage migrations with SQLAlchemy + Alembic.

• Strengthen delivery: build/own CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, automated testing, deploys, and safe rollback strategies.

• Improve runtime efficiency and throughput using Redis caching and Nginx reverse proxying.

• Partner with Product and Operations to translate payment/business requirements into technical plans and shipped outcomes.

Must-Have

• 7–10 years building production web backends and REST APIs with Python + Django.

• Proven technical leadership (mentoring, setting standards, design reviews, code reviews).

• Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, indexing, transactions, performance tuning.

• Hands-on experience with SQLAlchemy + Alembic (models, migrations, schema versioning).

• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows (gated testing, release automation).

• Practical experience with Redis (caching/eviction patterns) and Nginx (secure reverse proxy, high throughput).

• Working understanding of NoSQL patterns and when to use them alongside relational databases.

Nice-to-Have

• Payment gateway integrations (e.g., Stripe, Adyen).

• Cloud-native delivery with Docker/Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code within CI/CD.

• Observability experience: metrics, logs, tracing, and performance/reliability improvements.