
Principal Engineer Backend
at Client is a profitable, rapidly scaling unicorn.
Client Company is a profitable, rapidly scaling unicorn which is extremely well capitalized. Client has a very strong moat in the consumer lending space on the back of which it is entering into additional large markets such as E-comm and UPI.
Client company is now entering its next phase of growth from a fast-scaling startup to a robust, high-scale financial platform serving millions of users daily. You'll design systems built for 10x100x growth, make the key technical trade-off calls, and stay deeply hands-on. Beyond building, you'll mentor engineers and work directly with founders and product teams to translate business goals into scalable, reliable systems.
This role is an opportunity to:
- Shape the next-generation architecture for a high-throughput fintech system
- Build systems designed to scale 10x–100x from current volumes
- Solve real-world problems across performance, reliability, and financial-grade security
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the platform architecture to support 10x–100x growth
- Own systems end-to-end from the first design decision to production impact
- Lead system design discussions and set the long-term technical direction for the platform
- Identify scale bottlenecks early and drive solutions
- Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code quality, and architectural thinking
- Partner directly with founders and product teams to turn business priorities into scalable systems
- Operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly
- Drive projects independently own timelines, coordinate with teams, and see delivery
- Conduct rigorous code reviews and champion engineering best practices across the team
- Proactively identify gaps in the system and come up with concrete approaches to address them
- Solve technical problems across the company not just confined to a single pod
- Challenge existing architecture with data and reasoning push back when it’s the right call, and drive adoption of better approaches.
Requirements
- 7–12 years of experience in backend or platform engineering
- Strong computer science fundamentals (preferably from IIT, BITS, NITs)
- Strong proficiency in backend development (Node.js, Java, Go, or equivalent)
- Proven experience scaling systems through high-growth startup phases (1→10 or beyond)
- Track record of building and owning critical platforms or systems from scratch
- Exposure to high-volume transactional systems; fintech or lending is a strong plus
- Bias for action - moves fast, makes sound decisions, owns outcomes end-to-end
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities in a startup environment
- Strong problem-solving skills ability to break down complex technical challenges and arrive at pragmatic, well-reasoned solutions
- Hands-on experience with platform engineering developer tooling, shared services, infrastructure abstractions, or internal platforms

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Experience Required: 7+ Years
Location: Mumbai
About the Role
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- Apply clean coding principles, SOLID design patterns, and clean architecture to deliver maintainable and robust code.
- Work with distributed systems technologies (Kafka, ELK, in-memory databases, Cassandra, or similar).
- Write efficient SQL queries and integrate with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other developers to define and align on technical decisions.
- Identify and solve complex problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
- Drive best practices in coding standards, system design, and performance optimization.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly across teams and stakeholders.
Skills & Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a Backend Developer.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL.
- Significant experience in API design and optimization for enterprise-scale applications.
- Proficiency in distributed systems & related technologies (Kafka, ELK, in-memory DBs, Cassandra, etc.).
- Strong understanding of object-oriented engineering principles (SOLID, clean architecture).
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align teams.
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patterns, microservice and internet protocols
3) Database management experience using relational and/or NoSql database
technologies
4) Excellent Communication Skills
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- Backend development with Node.js, MongoDb and Typescript.
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- Good knowledge of Docker & Shell scripting
- Basic knowledge in web fundamentals: HTML, CSS
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Experience: 4+ years
Job description
○ Working experience on JAVA,Spring Boot. (on building web services?)
○ NOSQL DynamoDB knowledge is plus
○ Working experience in building micro services and distributed systems
○ Working experience on using messaging queues RabbitMQ/Kafka is plus
Requirement:
- Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain.
- Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
- Strong hold on PHP and preferably good knowledge of Python
- Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
- Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
- Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
- Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
- Ability to do database design and modeling
- Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
- Ability to write modular and clean code
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- Software Development of various product line
- Creation web-services and optimization for existing and new feature rollouts
- Collaborate with Product Managers and design solutions
- Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
- Build customer facing technology product
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Immediate Joiners only.
JD:
Hands on Experience in Java, Advanced java ,JSP Servelets, Core java,
spring , hibernate , J2EE , springboot.
Experience into Restful Web services and Database like MS sql.
Should be able to work independently.
Should be able to work with team.
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