Java 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

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

· Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.

· Monitoring and logging tool stacks - Splunk/ELK/Prometheus, Grafana 4 Design, Code, test, debug, implement and document complex WSO2 sequences.

· Perform Build activities for WSO2 ESB Middleware integration, involves writing XSLT, ESB coding, configuration, and Analysis activities.

· Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files, Traces and Log Analyzer.

· Responsible for understanding the requirement, solution design, coordinate the development and testing activities (end to end)

· Guide the team regarding WSO2 platform best practices, framework, reusable artefacts and ensure code quality and timely deliverables.

· Work with functional and technical customers to determine solutions that drive additional business value.

· Work with Github, Azure Devops and CI tools to automate dev, build, deployment and testing.

· Good knowledge in messaging brokers: WSO2 Message Broker, Apache Kafka.

· Monitoring the server (Monitoring logs and WSO2 metrics).

· Desired Candidate Profile

Desired Candidate Profile

· Candidate must have minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in WSO2, preferably with WSO2 certification.

· Extensive experience in Integration by using WSO2 Product Stack (API Manager 2.6/3.x, Enterprise Integrator 6.5 and Identity Server 5.7.0)

· Experience in Implementing APIs in WSO2 EI and On-boarding APIs into WSO2 API Manager

· Experience in WSO2 API Manager for designing API facades and designing and implementing API Proxies.

· Hands-on experience in designing and developing high volume web services using API Protocols and Data Formats (REST, JSON, SOAP & XML).

· Must have hands on experience / knowledge with CI tools to automate dev, build, deploy.

· Experience in programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python

· Experience in on boarding web applications into WSO2 Identity Server for authentication and authorizatio

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related four-year degree.

• 4 years of hands on experience in Integration

Candidate Profile:

• Strong understanding of PHP and Laravel Framework.
• Produce high quality code and experience with security implementations Identifying application security risks and Implementing security patches procedures.
• Strong hold on MySQL and experience on other SQL/No SQL databases.
• Hands on experience in Architecture and Design with experience in UML and Work-flow diagrams.
• Good knowledge on coding standards, unit testing.
• Strong hold on Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems.
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Able to architect large software from scratch.
• Team building and resource allocation.
• Should be able to work with the management to identify and address any issues that may impact the project.

• Key areas of responsibilities:- 
• Maintenance and enhancements of current websites.
• System requirement gathering, development, testing and maintenance for new websites or applications.
• Managing user access to the various components of the company’s IT infrastructure based on an assessment of the user requirement and security.
• Managing the admin section for the company’s websites.
  Creating an environment for Dreamweaver editor for users to develop applications.
• Documentation Designing a database and coordinating the UI design.
• Integrating the MySQL database with the PHP applications.
  Maintaining web-based PHP applications.
• Designing and developing applications and websites.
  Resolving issues related to PHP development in different applications.
  
  
• Experience and skills required:- 
  
  Skills : PHP, Mysql, MVC, JS, JQUERY,HTML,CSS, AJAX , WORDPRESS.
  
  Experience : Min 3 year Qualification: Any technical background (MCA, BE, MSC Computer etc)

• 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Well-versed in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Programming experience with at least one of
• Java or Python and object-oriented design
• Knowledge on SQL, NoSQL databases, Messaging/Caching technologies and AW deployments is a plus
• Exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows involving multiple third-party integrations
• Prior startup experience is a plus

• 2+ years of experience in Python, Django, Mongo, Express, MySQL, etc
• Have built applications capable of serving high volume with low latency in production
• Following practices of agile development with continuous integration/deployment
• Experience in deploying applications in AWS cloud
• Knowledge in building applications for Fintech/payments domain is a bonus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent from a reputed institution
• Self-starter, hustler, and a desire to achieve greatness is a MUST
• Immediate joining preferred
• You will have the flexibility to design the application and systems from the ground up.
• Your primary responsibility is to implement business logic in the backend and create awesome restful APIs for seamless integration with our mobile front end.