Backend Developer (Python and Django)

What's Ditto?

Ditto’s mission is to help people make well-informed insurance decisions - from expert advisory and policy purchases to dedicated claim support. We pioneered the industry-first “No-spam” policy, and over the past five years, we’ve assisted over 700,000 users with personalised advice on health and term insurance. We carry a 4.9 rating with 32,000+ reviews on Google.

Ditto is part of the Finshots family (500K+ subscribers) and is backed by Zerodha, India’s largest stockbroker. We won LinkedIn’s Top Startup award in both 2022 and 2023.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build end-to-end backend services and APIs.
• Integrate with external systems such as insurers, payment gateways, and other partners.
• Ensure high observability, performance, and reliability across systems.
• Write clean, reusable, and maintainable code with a focus on scalability.
• Implement comprehensive test coverage and maintain code quality.
• Manage database design, migrations, scripting, and administration.

Experience & Skills

• 2-8 years of experience in backend development.
• Hands-on experience with low-level & high-level system design.
• Proven experience building scalable, secure backend systems (APIs, middleware, caching).
• Proficiency in Python, Django, Django REST Framework (DRF), PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and basic HTML/CSS.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with AWS or other major cloud platforms is a plus.
• Strong sense of ownership, problem-solving ability, and leadership qualities.

Perks

• Comprehensive health and term insurance
• ESOPs
• Compensation as per industry standards

Our Interview Process

We value your time and aim to complete the process within 3 weeks, consisting of the following stages:

The schedule is as follows

• HR Introductory Round
• Tech-Connect Round
• Live Coding Round 1 - online
• Live Coding Round 2 -(in office)
• Founders round

This is an in-office role. Our address is: Fortuna-1, No 680, 15th Cross, J.P Nagar 2nd phase, J P Nagar, Bangalore, Bangalore South - 560078, Karnataka, India

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