Backend Developer

Job Title: Principal Backend Engineer

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: Panchkula (Onsite)

📍 Office will move to IT Park, Chandigarh from February

Work Mode: Onsite | 5 Days a Week

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to architect, scale, and lead the development of robust backend systems. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, collaborate closely with clients and product teams, and help modernize platforms using scalable architectures and emerging technologies, including AI/ML where relevant.

Tech Stack

• Backend: PHP (Laravel / CodeIgniter), Node.js
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Architecture: Microservices / Modular Monolith
• Cloud (Good to Have): AWS / GCP

Key Responsibilities

Backend Architecture & Development

• Own and evolve backend architecture across PHP and Node.js services
• Design and review scalable, maintainable systems (microservices or modular monoliths)
• Manage and optimize integrations across MySQL and MongoDB (data modeling, indexing, performance tuning)

Technical Leadership

• Lead system design discussions, architecture reviews, and code quality initiatives
• Establish backend development standards, best practices, and documentation
• Mentor mid and senior engineers on design patterns, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines
• Drive decisions around refactoring legacy systems and platform modernization

Client & Stakeholder Communication

• Act as the technical SPOC for backend architecture and integrations
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions
• Explain trade-offs, constraints, and backend workflows to non-technical stakeholders
• Present PoCs and technical approaches confidently to clients

AI & ML Integration (Strategic / Optional)

• Identify backend use cases for AI such as personalization, recommendations, fraud detection, or data enrichment
• Design backend APIs, services, or cron jobs that interact with AI/ML models
• Collaborate with data teams and stay updated on AI tools/APIs (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain)

Scalability, Security & Performance

• Ensure API security, role-based access control, and rate limiting
• Optimize system performance using caching, queues, and query optimization
• Plan and support horizontal/vertical scaling on cloud infrastructure

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of backend development experience in PHP and/or Node.js
• Strong expertise in database design (MySQL & MongoDB)
• Proven experience leading architecture decisions and mentoring engineers
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to clients and stakeholders
• Proactive mindset toward scalability, performance, and system resilience
• Bonus: Experience or curiosity around AI APIs and real-world AI integration

Why Join uEngage?

• Work on high-impact systems used by thousands of users
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and client teams
• High ownership and freedom to architect and innovate
• Competitive compensation and a collaborative work culture

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices using Node.js & Express
• Manage deployments via GitHub Actions and CodeDeploy; work with Docker & AWS
• Optimize MongoDB queries and use Redis caching for high-concurrency traffic
• Bridge Figma designs to backend logic using Next.js and Tailwind CSS
• Maintain monitoring with Nginx & PM2 to ensure 99.9% uptime

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 1+ year of professional experience building and maintaining production applications
• Deep Node.js knowledge: async programming, RESTful API architecture
• MongoDB mastery: schema design, indexing strategies, complex aggregation pipelines
• Hands-on AWS (EC2/S3 minimum) and practical CI/CD pipeline experience
• Proven ability to take a feature from PRD / Figma to stable production deployment

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Experience maintaining apps with high concurrent user counts
• Comfortable with Nginx configs and Dockerfiles
• Hands-on with payment gateway integration (Cashfree) and webhook handling
• Obsession with maintainable, well-documented, DRY code

AI Usage Policy:

AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) are force multipliers — use them. But you must own your code, reason hrough architectural trade-offs, and debug without relying solely on AI.

HOW TO APPLY:

• Tell us about the most complex bug you've solved or a backend system you built from scratch
• Share your GitHub profile
• Include at least two live project links showcasing your best work
• Your code will directly impact the learning outcomes of thousands of students.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 Roles and Responsibility :

• Lead and build the team in development
• Participate in the technical design of projects we made for our Clients
• Supervise and write efficient and reliable code; use best practices with our team
• Organize and participate code reviews
• Setup unit and integration tests
• Architecture and design of reusable server components
• Developing high performing REST APIs for application functionality
• Develop and maintain scalable server architecture serving millions of users every day.
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Must Have Skill Sets :

• Should have 5+ years of experience in Mobile/web server and application development
• Mandatory: Strong development skills in Python ,Node.js, Typescript, Django Rest Framework, Linux, MongoDB
• Experience with client technologies like JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, bootstrap, Angulars, React, Android App a plus
• Strong knowledge of data structures and computer fundamentals
• An ability to refract and understand large and separate code bases
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Forward-looking on potential technology choices
• Experience in building highly scalable, reliable systems
• Team handling experience.
  
  
  

Are you an experienced, ambitious Software Developer looking for a challenging role where you can learn and grow a lot more?

We are looking for motivated technical leads with skills in PHP-based frameworks to come to join our fast-paced, fun, and rewarding agile team of professionals.

If you are passionate about technology, constantly seeking to learn and improve your skillset, then you are the type of person we are looking for!

Responsibilities: 

• Technical Leads to provide solutions to technical issues, and are responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements 
• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals. 
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.. 
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements. 
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments. 
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
•  Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
• Framework Conduct peer-reviews and lead reviews and provide feedback.
• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, enhance and document
  
  

Requirements: 

• 6+ Years of IT industry experience 
• Sound knowledge of PHP Based frameworks (Word press, Laravel, Drupal, Codeigniter JavaScript, HTML, CSS 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and juggle priorities 
• Hands-on experience with SQL/MySQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design 
• Sound knowledge of estimation technique & design patterns 
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills 
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
  
  Perks & Benefits:
  
  
• Work from home/hybrid
• 5 days working 
• Leave compensations 
• Flexible working hours 
• Exposure to the international market
• Medical Insurance

Job Description

Primary Skills

• Server Side (Java) & AWS serverless framework.
• Must have hands-on experience on serverless framework.
• Design knowledge/experience of cloud-based web application. Familiarity with software design representation tools like astah, visio etc.
• Must have good experience on AWS (Overall knowledge, EC2 Volume, EC2 Security Group, EC2 AMI, Lambda, S3, AWSbackup, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, IAM, SecretsManager, StepFunction, CostExplorer, KMS, VPC/Subnet)
• Understanding business requirements w.r.t UI/UX.
• Working experience on development/staging/production servers.
• Good testing and verification skills
• Knowledge on SSL certificates and encryption.
• Knowledge on Docker containerization.

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and writing communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Should have skills to understand and analyzecustomers requirements and expectations.
• Must have experience in interaction with customer
• Work experiences with international cross-culture teams (Good to have)

Secondary SKills

• Scripting using Python
• Good to have knowledge of identity management
• UI/UX
• Knowledge of ReactJS/typescript/bootstrap
• Understanding business usecases w.r.t UI/UX
• Fixing issues wrt to integration on cloud(front end/back end/system/services APIs)

About theAsianparent : theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women, mothers and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions and information in the form of content, community and physical products.

Headquartered in Singapore, theAsianparent has offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Nigeria. Our investors include Fosun, JD.com,Vertex Ventures and others.

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We are looking for a Backend Engineers with 4+ years of experience to join our team. This is unique opportunity for a driven and insightful Engineer to join the leading growth-stage start up in the most meaningful segment of the economy(parents) in the core market of Singapore. This is a role where careers are made, if you are upto the challenge, and keen to work with world-class teams.

Work Experience : 4 years & above

About the Role :

This role is based in our India Office, reporting to the Head of Development.  

Experience: PHP Developer: 3 - 5 Years

Job Specifications:

• Required (Must Have) skills : Wordpress, Core PHP, OOPS Concept, MySQL, Github
• Desired (Good to have) skills : Linux Command, Basic HTML5 & CSS3, JS/Jquery Ajax, Third-party APIs

Requirements:

1. Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
2. Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications and enjoy designing a system for speed and scale.
3. Should be able to create a website in HTML, Wordpress, WooCommerce and Laravel (Good to have)
4. Highly Proficient with PHP, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, MVC Architecture, OOPs & XSLT
5. Excellent knowledge of PHP frameworks and MVC design patterns
6. Experience of creating database schema
7. Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
8. Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
9. Good knowledge and experience in AGILE and SCRUM methodologies.
10. Working knowledge of AWS Services, Web Services/REST API etc.
11. Understanding of SEO is plus

What can you expect :

• A fast-paced environment to learn and grow in your career with a market leader with ambitious growth plans.
• Opportunities to learn about and work in different areas of content creation and management and become a well-rounded digital media content professional.
• Dynamic and supportive work culture.
• A passionate team of people working tirelessly to help women across South East Asia and beyond.