Lead Python Developer
TripGain · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 2d ago
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About this role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python.
- Build reliable APIs and services for travel bookings, expense management, and supplier integrations.
- Design database schemas, optimize queries, and manage production database changes safely.
- Integrate third-party APIs, including airline, hotel, payment, and other supplier systems.
- Develop and maintain background jobs, queues, caching mechanisms, and webhook integrations.
- Build and deploy production-ready AI/LLM-powered features with appropriate validation, fallbacks, and error handling.
- Monitor application performance, reliability, latency, and infrastructure costs.
- Write meaningful automated tests, maintain technical documentation, and ensure code quality.
- Take end-to-end ownership of features, from technical design to production support.
- Use AI-assisted development tools effectively while ensuring code quality, security, and correctness.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5-8 years of professional software development experience, with at least 5 years of strong Python backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Good understanding of asynchronous programming and when to use it effectively.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining REST APIs or other production-grade APIs.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, schema design, query optimization, and data integrity.
- Hands-on experience integrating third-party APIs and handling failures, retries, inconsistent responses, and legacy systems.
- Experience with background processing, message queues, caching, and webhooks.
- Hands-on experience shipping an LLM-powered feature to production for real users.
- Understanding of LLM limitations, output validation, confidence handling, fallback mechanisms, and cost and latency optimization.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, testing, and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership of deliverables.
Good to Have
- Experience in travel technology, travel booking platforms, fintech, or expense management systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS applications.
- Exposure to analytics platforms or data-intensive systems.
- Basic frontend development skills for internal dashboards and administration tools.
- Familiarity with vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agent frameworks, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Experience working with AI coding assistants and reviewing AI-generated code.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to build technology that solves real-world travel and expense challenges.
- High ownership and direct involvement in architecture and technical decisions.
- Opportunity to develop and deploy production-grade AI-powered features.
- A collaborative, agile team with a short path from idea to production.
- A strong engineering culture that prioritizes accuracy, reliability, maintainability, and customer experience.
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About TripGain
TripGain
Travel & Tourism
Bangalore / Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
₹7.2L PA avg
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Overview
300+ clients globally are actively using our suite of travel technology solutions for seamless sourcing, selling, and management of travel content.
1. API Gateway is an AI-laden single API to integrate 160+ global and local suppliers into your online booking tool in a snap. We have enabled travel companies worldwide to sell travel at scale while cutting supplier API integration costs and time by up to 90%. You can integrate and go live within 7 days.
2. Our Online Booking Tool is a holistic technology solution for you to sell travel products at scale, i.e., flights, hotels, buses, trains, and cabs.
You get OBT frontend (pre-built template), backend, and overall infrastructure setup in the cloud, on-premise, and hybrid. We help you integrate any suppliers API to your platform.
Our Mid-Office Solution is a Swiss Army Knife for your operations team.
Its laden with features like agent management, supplier management, rule-based markups, 30+ actionable reports, and everything you need to streamline your travel agency.
3. Unified T&E Solution We empower travel agencies globally to offer their corporate clients an intelligent self-booking tool (SBT) with a built-in expense management module to streamline travel & expense end-to-end.
Using our SBT, travel agencies can configure custom corporate policies for each of their clients with grades, manage content fares with customisable rule-based dynamic markups, design frictionless approval workflows with up to 7 levels, and keep a pulse of the business with real-time actionable reports and insights. Besides, SBT's policy-compliant AI-led itinerary bookings, expense management, and other cost-saving and efficiency-enhancing product features help you delight and retain corporates. 400,000+ employees across 350+ companies globally rely on TripGain for their T&E needs.
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