Software Engineer - Admin API (Python)

Nexla is the leading Integration platform, built with AI, for AI. Nexla takes a metadata driven approach to converge diverse integrations across Data, Documents, Agents, Applications, and  APIs into a single design pattern. We accelerate the development of solutions for GenAI, Analytics, and Inter-company data. Nexla makes data users and developers up to 10x more productive by delivering a true blend of no-code, low-code, and pro-code interfaces.

Leading companies including DoorDash, LinkedIn, Johnson & Johnson, and LiveRamp trust Nexla for mission-critical data. Named in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools and top-rated by customers on Gartner Peer Insights, Nexla is a remote-first company headquartered in San Mateo, California.

At Nexla, our culture is built around our core values: Have Empathy, Be Curious, Be Intellectually Honest, Achieve Excellence, and Remember to Relax. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, foster a data-driven mindset, take ownership of our work, and believe in the power of teamwork to achieve ambitious goals.

• Design and build platform features end-to-end using Python, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy. You own the full lifecycle—from data model to API to deployment.
• Write clean, well-tested code. We care about test coverage, clear abstractions, and code that the next person can read and extend without a Rosetta Stone.
• Build and maintain the APIs that power our platform—both internal services and customer-facing endpoints. Performance, reliability, and clear contracts matter.
• Work with databases (Mysql, Postgres) daily. Design schemas, write efficient queries, handle migrations, and think carefully about how data models evolve as the product grows.
• Tackle production issues when they come up. Debug, fix, and then build the monitoring and guardrails so the same class of problem doesn't recur.

• Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and security gaps. You don't wait to be asked.
• Contribute to architectural decisions—how we structure services, manage background processing, handle multi-tenancy, and scale the platform as load grows.
• Evaluate tools and approaches pragmatically. We care about what works and ships, not what's trendy.

• Participate in code reviews and design discussions. Give feedback that makes the code better and helps your teammates grow.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, product, and leadership. You can explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders without oversimplifying.
• Share context through documentation. When you build something, you leave behind enough for the team to operate and extend it without you in the room.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong depth in Python.
• Solid experience with FastAPI (or similar async Python frameworks like Starlette) and SQLAlchemy. You understand async patterns, dependency injection, and ORM trade-offs.
• Strong SQL and relational database skills. You can design a normalized schema, write a performant query, and reason about indexing and query plans.
• Experience writing well-structured tests—unit and integration. You have opinions about what's worth testing and how.
• Comfort working across the stack. You may not be a frontend specialist, but you can read and modify JavaScript/React when needed and aren't afraid of the browser.
• A working understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP). You've deployed applications, worked with managed services, and debugged infrastructure-level issues.
• Startup mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, define scope on the fly, and ship before the full picture is clear. You take ownership without waiting for permission.
• You've owned production systems and learned what good operational discipline looks like—monitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems.
• Global Collaboration Window: Ability to overlap with morning PST (Pacific Standard Time) working hours for syncs, design reviews, and collaboration with our US-based leadership and engineering teams.

• Experience with background job processing (Celery, Dramatiq, or similar).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams).
• Exposure to data-intensive systems or the data integration domain.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

• Impact at scale from day one. Your code powers a platform that processes billions of rows for companies like DoorDash and LinkedIn. You'll see your work in production within your first weeks.
• The AI wave is real for us. We're not bolting AI onto a legacy product. Intelligent integrations and agentic workflows are core to what we're building next—and the platform you work on is the foundation.
• Small team, real ownership. You won't be a cog. You'll have direct access to engineering leadership, influence over technical decisions, and the autonomy to drive meaningful improvements.
• Recognized platform with startup energy. The credibility of enterprise validation with the speed and ownership of an early-stage company.

Location
Bengaluru - Hybrid