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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
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About Us
Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.
Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.
Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.
What we're looking for
We seek a motivated, talented, and intelligent individual who shares our vision of being a changemaker. We value individuals dissatisfied with the status quo, strive to make improvements, and envision making significant contributions. We look for those who embrace challenges and dedicate themselves to solutions. We seek individuals who push for data-driven decisions, are unconstrained by titles, and value collaboration. We are building a fast-paced team to shape various business and technology aspects.
Responsibilities
- Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class digital platform for the Private Credit industry, and take full ownership of the components of the digital platform
- You will build robust and scalable web-based applications and need to think of platforms & reuse
- Driving and active contribution to High-Level Designs(HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
- Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Mentor team members in adopting effective coding practices. Conduct comprehensive code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional aspects.
- Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of backend systems through proper testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development processes to maintain code quality and project timelines.
- Simply, be an owner of the platform and do whatever it takes to get the required output for customers
- Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest development trends, tools, and technologies.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong track record of successfully architecting and implementing scalable and high-performance backend systems.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g.,Python, Golang, Node.js, Java) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
- Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc)
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
- Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
- Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Experience of cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good to have
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
- Experience working LLMs and AI technologies
Benefits
By joining Binocs, you’ll become part of a vibrant and dynamic team dedicated to disrupting the fintech space with cutting-edge solutions. We offer a stimulating work environment where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our competitive compensation package, inclusive of equity, is designed to reward your contributions to our success.
About us: our client is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high-impact problems in the enterprise. our client is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis, and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality.
conversational AI platform is designed to make computers understand humans. our client enables large enterprises to deploy high-impact conversational assistants, offering vertical-specific solutions in various regulated industries, such as healthcare, finance, telecommunications, and others.
More about us:
- Working Experience of Ruby on raiils
- MS or BS in Computer Science or a related subject.
- Played the role of a core engineer for 3 years in at least one project/product.
- Excellent proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming
- Key Skills: Understands what world-class quality means
- Experience with one of Vue, AngularJS or Backbone or similar
- Thorough understanding of browser local cache
- Thorough knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Object-Oriented JavaScript
- Write clean code. Thorough knowledge of various security issues in-browser applications and the ability to fix them.
- Knowledge of LESS or Saas Proficient in responsive design
We are looking for a qualified team leader to manage our team and provide effective guidance. The lead should be an excellent coder with proficiency and a clear understanding of different aspects of a project. You will be responsible for
supervising, managing, and motivating team members regularly. As a team leader, you will be the contact point for all Interactions with the architect and the team, so You must possess excellent communication skills. You should also be able to act proactively to ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration.
Who are we looking for?
• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 7-10 years of professional experience.
●Strong software design and architectural skills in object-oriented and functional programming styles.
• Java 8, Microservices using Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes orchestrator.
• Experience in working with Spring Framework - Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, OAuth2, hibernate.
• Experience in Reactjs or Angular.
• Experience in RabbitMQ
• Experience in Unit Testing Tools like Junit/TestNG
• Experience in working with SQL & NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Mongo DB.
• Knowledge of CI/CD architecture.
• Knowledge of tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, Maven, Gitlab
• Experience in cloud technologies.
• Team management using Scrum methodologies.
You demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced and hyper-growth environment where the requirements are
constantly changing.
• Solid understanding of design patterns, data structures, and advanced programming techniques.
● Must have experience leading a team of at least 8- 10 people.
• Nice to have Python 3.6+, Image and textual data processing technologies.
"Shypmax is India's first & only Cross border Logistics Platform backed by a contemporary product and premium service. We are one of the first IOSS ready courier service in India, focusing on compliance with
new regulations in the European Union (EU). We deliver to 220countries in the UK, USA, South East Asia, Australia, Europe, & Canada with 70+ carrier and network partnerships placed globally with a perfect
combination of technology and optimized shipping solutions."
Job Responsibilities:
Prior experience in deploying scalable infrastructure on the cloud.
Architect, design and develop web applications using Restful Services on Node.js.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Lead code reviews to drive teams to the highest standards for Node.js web apps.
Strong background in algorithms, data structures, database design.
Experience in Node, Redis.
Experience in cloud infrastructure like google app engine/AWS/Heroku etc.
Design and create efficient RESTful endpoints for both internal and public consumption.
Participate in regular bug fixing Intimate knowledge of Git, Github, AWS, CDNs.
Experience with creating RESTful endpoints using the REST framework.
Developing high performing REST APIs for application functionality.
Necessary Requirement:
Min -2 years of Experience with Node.js
Min -1 years webhook Integration, Api Integration .
Hands on Experience working on Node. Js
Hands on Experience in REST APIs for application functionality.
Hands on Experience in cloud infrastructure
What You'll Do :
You will be a part of our backend team working on keeping our REST API and GraphQL API up and running and making sure that our users get the right data at the right time.
You will have ownership of developing and maintaining our backend services including users, courses, and operations tools that manage our product and logistics.
You will work on architecting and scaling highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems from scratch.
This is a position for an experienced Node programmer with at least 2 years under the belt, but you don't have to be a rock star, a ninja, or a superhero to apply.
What You'll Need :
You will fit well in the backend team if you are passionate about technology and have experience programming in Node. Knowledge of technologies like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, REST and JSON will help you get going from day one.
As an experienced Node developer, you should be intimately familiar with the platform, with
JavaScript, and with the stables of full-stack web development : HTTP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL.
It's a bonus if you're broadly familiar with other languages as well- we write some services in Go and have data pipelines written in Python- but your main work will be JavaScript through and through.
You will be a perfect match with our team if you love collaborating with people from all disciplines to solve complex problems, always want to learn new skills and take ownership of your work.
- Ownership of complete backend code.
- Full stack development on cutting edge technology in Fintech domain.
You should Have :
- Server Side languages knowledge: Node.js and express.js is the first choice, Python, Java
- Solid experience working with databases, especially relational DB.
- Solid experience with version control (Git or Bitbucket or SVN).
- B.E. in Computer Science or Graduate/PG degree in Computer Science (this is optional, as we are more interested in your abilities and experience over a paper degree).
- Any experience working with real time projects in backend with node.js and express.js
- Coordinating with the design team, apps team.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming, event-based programming, its quirks, and workarounds.
- Working on system design problems, understanding various tech frameworks, what specific problems they solve, what new problems they give rise to, and architectures that work at scale.
- Taking risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes.
- Brainstorming between various approaches, doing small experiments to test hypotheses, aligning the team to follow a particular approach, being thorough in your research.
- Collaborating well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together
- Pushing for continuous improvement to existing processes.
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- Hands-on experience with MERN stack.
- experience in Agile/SCRUM methodology and modern tools like Jira, Slack, GitHub, etc.
- Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka/Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
- Microservices architecture, orchestration between various services, error-handling.
- Project Management, Reporting
- Insatiably curious.
- Obsessed with putting the best-in-class systems in place










