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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
About the role:
We’re hiring PHP Laravel Developers to join our team at Codebrahma.
We build and maintain production-grade web applications for growing businesses—systems that need clean architecture, reliable APIs, secure authentication, and strong performance. If you enjoy writing maintainable Laravel code, designing solid databases, and shipping features with confidence, you’ll fit right in.
Must-have skills
- Strong PHP fundamentals (OOP, namespaces, Composer, PSR standards)
- Solid experience with Laravel (routing, middleware, validation, Eloquent, queues, jobs, events, notifications)
- Building and consuming REST APIs (auth, pagination, rate limiting, versioning basics)
- Database design + optimization (MySQL/PostgreSQL, indexes, joins, transactions)
- Writing clean, modular code (service classes, repository patterns where appropriate)
- Debugging and troubleshooting production issues (logs, performance bottlenecks)
- Familiarity with Git workflows and code reviews
- Understanding of security basics (OWASP, input validation, auth, RBAC)
Nice to have
- Laravel ecosystem tools: Horizon, Telescope, Sanctum/Passport
- Background jobs + queues (Redis/SQS) and caching strategies
- Testing: PHPUnit / Pest (unit + feature tests)
- Performance tuning (query optimization, profiling, caching)
- Docker and deployment familiarity (Nginx, Supervisor, CI/CD)
- Experience with AWS (S3, RDS, EC2) or similar cloud platforms
Responsibilities :
- Assist in requirements gathering and technical planning to design solutions that meet client needs
- Create clean, well-documented, efficient, and standards-compliant code with an eye towards
performance optimization
- Define, design, develop, integrate, test, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance applications
and tools written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and other languages, as necessary
- Develop custom modules for integration into ERP, accounting, fulfillment, and marketing systems
- Actively troubleshoot and support applications in production-- critical environments
- Account for client short- and long-term goals when recommending a solution
- Set up, configure, and optimize enterprise-level e-commerce software and servers
- Provide technical leadership in the development and delivery of solutions
- Troubleshoot production application issues under pressure and define a path to resolve them
- Perform team code reviews and provide technical oversight
- Implement and maintain Magento development standards and best practices
- Tracks the work against plan and reports the status on agreed time without fail.
- Interface with the clients to understand and document their needs.
-Ability to mentor team members in core skills
Primary Technical Skills:
Magento
PHP
OOPS
Javascript
XML
JSON
Payment Gateway
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Design Patterns
MVC
Soft Skills
Excellent oral and written communication.
Required Skills:
- 2 to 8 years of experience building scalable, robust Web or e-commerce applications in OOP PHP
- Experience with Magento 2.x
-Minimum 1+ yrs exp in Magento 2.x
- Experience working with the following technologies: Javascript (Prototype and JQuery), XML, JSON,
SQL, PHP, CSS2, CSS3
- Experience with HTML, tableless layout design, and standards-compliant markup
- Experience with OOP PHP (3+ years)
- Experience with site optimization
- Experiences with theme integration and customization
- Knowledge of online payment gateways (e.g., Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.)
- Understanding of the MVC design pattern
- Proficient in authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents
- Prior consulting experience
- Demonstrated ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience levels
- Ability to work with minimal direction with a focus on customer satisfaction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Some travel will be required for this position
Secondary Skills :
- In-depth knowledge of PCI compliance and other e-commerce industry topics
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Knowledge of caching, and scaling techniques
- Multi-website, store view deploymentRestricted
Roles and responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing new features and functionality.
- Developing custom themes with WordPress by working with HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks, JavaScript, and ready-made theme development experience.
- Strong knowledge of Woo Commerce.
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS.
- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
- HTML to WordPress Conversion.
- Should know versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN.
Required Candidate profile:
- Good Understanding of OOPs Programming concepts.
- Strong knowledge of JQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
- Knowledge of HTML to WordPress.
- Knowledge of PSD to WordPress Integration.
- Knowledge of Individual and child page template development.
Core PHP (Knowledge of functions, Methods, PHP OOPS Concept, Ajax, MySQL, Jquery), Javascript, Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, MVC Structure
Knowledge about socket
Work Experience: 2 or More than 2 Years
Education: Min. Graduate
Technical Skills:
Backend: PHP (Laravel Framework), Web Service / Web API, Rest API, Google Firebase
Database: MySQL
Requirements:
1. Should be able to complete projects in Back end
2. Should have experience in integrating payment gateways
3. Knowledge of third Party Integration
4. Knowledge of Database Architecture
5. Should be able to deploy the website on the main server
6. Strong PHP programming skills
7. Good database skills preferably Firebase or MySQL
8. Able to create restful API's for mobile apps & knowledge of Google Firebase will be a plus point
9. Understanding of latest Google algorithms
10. Knowledge of frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap & jQuery will be a plus point









