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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
Our client is the most sought after traditional Indian outfit manufacturing and exporting company. Their contemporary and stylishly designed clothes are full of unique patterns, matchless embroidery, gorgeous mirror-work and beautiful block prints.
Almost a decade old, it is a venture committed to bring together a varied range of traditional crafts and techniques of dyeing, weaving, printing and hand embroidery. The founders have dedicated their life to promote Indian Block Prints and provide employment and Hand-Embroidery training to women so that numerous underprivileged women can be empowered.
As a Software Developer (PHP, laravel, MySQL), you will write PHP code - either from scratch or work within CMS platforms - that integrates with MySQL.
What you will do:
- Building new features using web technologies and frameworks.
- Integrating and improving features that support our large-and-growing user base.
- Ensuring reliability and security of the web application.
- Talking to our mobile app developers and designing how an API method should work.
- Contributing to internal tools that help us manage our users, and content.
What you need to have:
- Experience in extensive PHP5 OOP within MVC frameworks like Laravel, MySQL and relational database design.
- Solid grasping HTML and CSS with moderate JavaScript/ AJAX experience.
- The ability to code clean HTML and CSS code by hand if needed.
- Working within CMS platforms - that integrates with MySQL.
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3) is a plus Edit Job Description.
- Self motivated and ready for a challenge.
- Passion to learn and to Grow.
- Team member with excellent communication skills.
- A desire to learn new skills and technologies.
- The ability to seek solutions independently.
- The drive to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience 2- 4 Years having strong logical and analytical skills.
Notice period : immediate or woithin 15 days
Skills required :
PHP, Cordignito, Laravel, SQL, Oops concept, strong logical thinking.
We are searching for an organized, ambitious Tech Lead with hands-on experience in .NET and data management methods with MongoDB, SQL.
In this role, you should be able to write functional code with a sharp eye for spotting defects. You should be a team player and an excellent communicator. If you are also passionate about the .NET framework and software design/architecture, we- d like to meet you.
Your goal will be to help internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.
Responsibilities and Duties :
- Writing clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages.
- Working on Architecture and Standards team to validate designs and standards.
- Perform coding, bug verification, unit testing, and integration testing.
- Build high-quality scalable and predictable web applications on the .NET Technology stack and maintain internal and external facing web applications.
- Creating and integrating services and APIs using Web API 2 for various products and applications.
- Working on system architecture and databasing in MySQL and NoSQL.
- Make regular modifications to existing software for error correction, adaptation to new hardware, and improving overall function and performance
- Evaluate new code for reliable architecture, stability, reusability, performance, automation, security, and metrics
- Using JSON to store and transport data.
- Working with other team members and the team lead using Project Management Tools and Version Source Control to create industry-leading technological products.
Skills required:
- 4 - 7 years of experience in MongoDB.
- Candidate should have 2 years of experience as a tech lead.
- Knowledge of .NET development and lifecycle methods in C# Language.
- Experience in making Web API 2 including routes, class components, async methods, parallel programming, authentication, and authorization, etc.
- Experience and hands-on knowledge of data management methods with MongoDB, MySQL, or NoSQL, etc.
- Should have experience and understanding of using JSON.
- Familiarity with working with .NET Framework, JavaScript, HTML. Knowledge of .NET Core is preferred.
- Knowledge and experience working with AWS Cloud and cloud computing techniques is an added advantage, but not a requirement.
- Having a BSc Degree in Computer Science is optional but should have some educational knowledge of computer science
About the Role
The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for technical leaders with passion and experience in architecting and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.
Responsibilities & ownership
- Lead end-to-end delivery and customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product
- Lead and mentor others about concurrency, parallelization to deliver scalability, performance and resource optimization in a multithreaded and distributed environment
- Propose and promote strategic company-wide tech investments taking care of business goals, customer requirements, and industry standards
- Lead the team to solve complex, unknown and ambiguous problems, and customer issues cutting across team and module boundaries with technical expertise, and influence others
- Review and influence designs of other team members
- Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like GCP, AWS, and Azure
- Partner with other leaders to nurture innovation and engineering excellence in the team
- Drive priorities with others to facilitate timely accomplishments of business objectives
- Perform RCA of customer issues and drive investments to avoid similar issues in future
- Collaborate with Product Management, Support, and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio
- Proactively suggest learning opportunities about new technology and skills, and be a role model for constant learning and growth
Requirements
- B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
- Fluency in Java/C++ with 15+ years of experience developing production-level software
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
- 8+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
- Subject Matter Expert in one or more of query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency, micro service based architectures, data replication, networking, storage systems
- Experience in taking company-wide initiatives, convincing stakeholders, and delivering them
- Expert in solving complex, unknown and ambiguous problems spanning across teams and taking initiative in planning and delivering them with high quality
- Ability to anticipate and propose plan/design changes based on changing requirements
- Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
- Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
- Hands-on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
- Understanding of distributed file systems such as S3, ADLS or HDFS
- Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
- Support existing code of PHP webserver
- Proficient in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and MySQL
- Hands-on any PHP-based framework/CMS like Laravel, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgnitor, Yii.
- Must write efficient code with documentation.
- Any Database: MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL DBs, postgresql.
- Has experience debugging code.
- Analysis of current DB structure and change table structures as and when required
- Implementation of visual representation of DB data in the form of charts and graphs
- The eventual implementation of a new UI theme with customizations such as drop-down menu data, as well as linking the UI theme front-end with the back-end MySQL
- Implementation of new PHP web services for functions such as analytics, and new modules to existing services
- Ensure cross-platform compatibility of information retrieved from web services on
- Android and iOS platforms, in terms of Push Notifications, platform-specific issues, etc.
- Implementation of SSL security to all web services, logins, and API calls
- Familiar with XMPP would be a plus point.








