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Job Title : Principal Backend Engineer (AI-Driven)
Experience : 10+ Years
Location : Chandigarh
Tech Stack : PHP, Node.js, Laravel, MySQL, MongoDB
Additional Requirement : Hands-on experience with AI technologies, APIs, or ML integrations
Role Overview :
We're looking for a Principal Backend Engineer (AI-Driven) to design and lead scalable backend systems while driving AI adoption across products.
The role involves integrating AI-powered features, architecting intelligent systems, and mentoring engineering teams on modern backend and AI implementation.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and lead backend architecture using PHP (Laravel/CodeIgniter) and Node.js
- Build scalable microservices / modular backend systems
- Develop APIs and backend workflows for AI-driven features
- Integrate AI APIs (OpenAI, LangChain or similar frameworks)
- Work with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and AI pipelines
- Ensure performance, scalability, and security of backend systems
- Mentor engineering teams and drive backend + AI best practices
Requirements :
- 10+ years of backend development experience
- Strong expertise in PHP / Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML APIs or AI-powered features
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- Experience leading engineering teams
Good to Have :
- Prompt engineering or AI cost optimization
- Exposure to MLOps / ML pipelines
CTC: up to 40 LPA
Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :
Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only
1. 4–6 years experience in backend engineering
2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:
- TypeScript
- Express.js / Nest.js
3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)
4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture
5. Hands-on experience in:
- Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design
- MVC / Microservices
6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)
7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
8. Experience managing production systems
9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability
10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)
11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring
If interested kindly share your updated resume at 82008 31681
Role: Backend Developer
Role & Responsibilities / What you will do?
- Participate in design and implementation of the overallBackend architecture.
- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective Design, Development,
- In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJs. (plus point if having knowledge of GOLang)
- In depth knowledge of Databases like MongoDB, MySQL, CouchBase, Cassandra and search engine like elastic
- OTT Streaming platform knowledge includes functional areas such as - Media Processing ,Content Management system
- Problem Solving – Ownership, Proactive and Systematic approach.
- Enable absorption of latest technologies in the product line.
- Ensure best practices in software development are institutionalized.
- Problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
- Validation, Testing and Performance, monitoring etc
Requirements / What you should have?
- Understanding and knowledge of Front end is plus point.
- Continuous integration (Jenkins) and version control (Git) etc.
- Good Error and Exceptional Handling Skills.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs and recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development.
- Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production
Technical Skills Desired:
- Must have experience in either of JavaScript frameworks: Angular
- Must have experience in either of backend software development [J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring core, JPA]
- Must have experience in designing/implementing Hibernate/ORM, Restful web services, Micro Services using Java
- Knowledge with relational/ NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Knowledge with versioning (Git or SVN) /build tools (Maven/Ant/Gradle/Junit), Unit testing & code coverage tools is desired
- Knowledge of App / Web servers (NGINX / Tomcat / Jboss Wildfly)
- Understands the process of new application development and has the ability to apply these concepts with minimal mentoring and supervision.
- Advanced knowledge experience using any of IDE (e.g., Eclipse, SonarQube, STS, VS Code)
- Knowledge on Cloud platform, technologies & deployments is an added advantage
- Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and
- Must have experience with Agile tools
Functional Skills Desired:
- Good knowledge in product development domains
- Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain preferred
- Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of
- Complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities contributing to team meetings;
- Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
- Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
- Understanding and implementation of security and data
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications and standards and best industry
- Usage of Process tools – JIRA, TFS, HP QC or any other agile tools, also knowledge of CMM Level 3 development process.
- Self-motivated & working independently with minimal
- Maintain code integrity and
- Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
- Follow the coding standards for java and angular
Technical Skills Good to Have:
- Usage of troubleshooting tools like J Profiler, J Meter or application performance tuning
- Exposure to Non-web-based developments, for both mobile and
- Development experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization etc in AWS or other cloud platforms
- Willing to take up proof of concepts and showcase the technical capability
- Usage of design tools Visio or draw io
- Usage of CI/CD pipeline
Role
As one of the senior members of the backend development team you will be
responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core
backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale
and collaborating extensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer
experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● 4+ years of backend/full-stack development experience
● 1+ years of experience on NodeJS
● 1+ years experience in building APIs in a microservice architecture
● Has experience managing other developers, recruiting and training.
● Experience in PHP is a plus
● Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront
● Has experience in code reviewing/being the gatekeeper for an entire project
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Good knowledge of working with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
The ideal candidate is a highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the Node Js . You must also possess a strong knowledge of Mongo DB
Responsibilities
- Perform a mix of maintenance, enhancements, and new development as required
- Work in a data analyst role and with business intelligence applications
- Document features, technical specifications & infrastructure Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to convert business needs into technical specifications
Qualifications
Back-end technologies& Front-end (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), Node js,Mongo Database, MySQL databases
- 1+ years' of experience in web development and software design
- Expertise in Strapi will be a plus point
- should be able to create the APIs
- Payment Gateway Integration( Stripe)








