
1. As a founding backend engineer, tackle a wide range of technical challenges: from
designing powerful new integrations to scaling our real-time web service to hundreds
of users
2. Build high-impact, end-user features that vastly improve user productivity.
3. In a small cross-functional team you will collaborate closely to discuss the feasibility
and direction of prototypes or planned product features.
4. Address complex problems at both an application and system-level, and maintain
existing codebases
5. Work directly with CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture and create
processes for improving engineering standards
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have a work experience of 3+ years as a Backend Developer
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS, Golang will be a plus
3. Demonstrated fluency with REST APIs, third-party libraries, and client/server
architectures
5. You have experience with maintaining backend microservices
6. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility
7. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
8. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects

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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
- Develop and maintain server-side logic using Node.js, JavaScript, and Python.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, designers, and product managers to create scalable and responsive web applications.
- Design and implement APIs and web services to facilitate seamless integration with other systems.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability.
- Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and implement effective solutions.
- Ensure the security and data protection of the backend systems.
- Write efficient and reusable code, following industry best practices and coding standards.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
We are a pre-seed stage startup & have set aside a large ESOP for this role that will create significant wealth for the successful candidate.
Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.
For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.
Key Responsibilities of the Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
- Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
- Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
- Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
- Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
- Set up processes related to engineering & product
Skills / Required Experience:
- B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
- At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
- Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
- Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
- Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).
Requirement:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent degree in computer science.
- Min 1 year of experience in Backend Development.
- Experience in Golang is a must.
- Experience in creating and dealing with REST API and socket technology.
- Working Knowledge of RabbitMQ and Kafka.
- Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases, along with Redis and elastic search.
- Working knowledge of network communication, TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications.
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Gather and address technical and design requirements.
- Provide training and support to internal teams.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features.
- Follow emerging technologies.
- Optimizing multiple producers and multiple consumer systems.
- Develop a Fault-tolerant application design.
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Company |
Photon Commerce (http://www.photoncommerce.com">www.photoncommerce.com)
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Title |
Senior engineer
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Commitment |
Full-time. Remote. Starting as soon as possible.
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About the company |
Photon Commerce is the AI platform for finance, invoices, and payments. Photon empowers financial services and eCommerce businesses with computer vision to automate invoices and receipts. Photon turns paper and pdf invoices, receipts, POs, and packing slips into a modern collaboration platform for commerce, preventing problems before they become costly. Backed by the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, its leadership brings experience from eCommerce and SaaS unicorns, Google AI, Y Combinator, Stanford, and 4 exits and an IPO.
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What you will do |
· Build a python/flask app that processes PDFs, images, invoices, and receipts for Quickbooks and Shopify using OCR · Lead a team of 8+ engineers and interns · Create integrations, APIs, webhooks, and payments for the captured structured data · Build a document and invoice collaboration app with embedded chat, like Slack for documents/invoices · Deploy the app into production and own AWS devops · Own the shipped product, including QA
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Experience |
· 5-10 years of experience having launched apps in production with real users in Python, Flask, Django, Javascript, SQL, AWS, and full-stack web development · 1+ years of engineering leadership, including as a team lead, tech lead, or manager · Have repos and/or demos to show your previous work · Knowledge in and/or passion for enterprise SaaS, and AWS devops · Excellent communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and team skills
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What you’ll receive |
· Join an exciting, high growth startup led by serial entrepreneurs and backed by top tier Silicon Valley investors and billionaire industry leaders in tech · Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and performance
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Role Description:
As a Lead Backend Engineer , you will be responsible for designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems for Radiusagent. Experience as a Tech Lead, managing tasks with back-end engineers while coding themselves will be a bonus point for the ideal candidate.
Responsibilities will include-
- You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
- You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
- You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
- You will ensure compliance with the build/release and configuration management process.
Skills needed:
- be able to design and build modules from ground up
- proficient in any one programming language out of php/golang/node/python/javascript/java/ruby and ability to pick up others
- experience with mysql/postgres/mongodb/couchdb
- experience with redis/memcached
- experience with rabbitmq / kafka
- experience in having written cron jobs, troubleshooting downtime
- ability to work with ambiguous requirements
- good understanding of OS concepts
Nice to haves:
- experience with managing VMs' on aws/gcp/digitalocean
- experience with docker/kubernetes
- experience elasticsearch or lucene
- B Tech/BE or M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Experience level of 7+ years in building large scale applications.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data.
- Excellent coding skills in Java / Python / Node / Go.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.









