Basics

Compensation: Competitive Market Salary

Location: Bangalore (On-site)

Who we Are

Kavana is building AI Humans, enabling real-time, AI-driven conversational experiences for consumers. You’ll join a small, fast team shipping production features that millions can use owning APIs, data pipelines, and reliability across environments.

What you’ll do

• Build and scale REST/WebSocket APIs in Django for real-time, AI-powered interactions.
• Orchestrate async workloads with Celery, Redis (as broker/cache), and task retries/metrics.
• Design streaming and event-driven flows with Kafka; integrate queues with AWS SQS where appropriate.
• Integrate and harden payment gateways (e.g., Stripe/Razorpay/PhonePe), including webhooks, ledgers, and idempotency.
• Write tests, docs, and dashboards; monitor staging/production SLOs, latency, and cost.
• Collaborate with product/design to scope, iterate, and ship fast.

What You’ve done

• Built and scaled REST/WebSocket APIs in Django for real-time, AI-powered interactions.
• 2-4 years building scalable REST APIs with Python/Django; working knowledge of Node.js is a plus.
• Practical experience with Celery + Redis for background jobs and scheduled tasks.
• Hands-on with Kafka (consumers, partitions, offsets) and AWS SQS (DLQs, visibility timeouts).
• Comfortable with PostgreSQL (schema design, indexes, migrations) and MongoDB (schema design, TTLs).
• Implemented at least one payment gateway end-to-end (checkout flows, webhook verification, refunds).