Software Engineer - Backend

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

1. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
2. Experience in Agile development using JIRA, GIT,  Confluence.
3. 3+ years of Experience in  node.js + Express.
4. Experience in profiling, debugging & troubleshooting Node.js processes.
5. Strong Experience as a backend developer for REST API design.
6. Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQLdatabases like  PostgreSQL / MySQL or MongoDB
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
9. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability

requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in

constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence.

Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups.

You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

● Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least

3+ years as an architect.

● Good problem solving skills

● Strong mentoring capabilities

● Good understanding of software development life cycle

● Strong experience in system design and architecture

● Strong focus on quality of work delivered

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

● Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications using Node.Js

(Javascript/Typescript) and .NET/ Golang / Java / Python.

● Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).

● Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture.

● Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases

● Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud

services, etc.

● Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.

● Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure

● Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

● Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.

● Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.

● Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

Udrive is the largest car sharing platform in the Middle East. We pioneered the concept in the region and have continued to provide the best experience amongst our peers. We are in rapid expansion and are looking for a bright, successful and determined individual who has the experience to take the companies vision forwards into the next 5 years.

Our next 5 years journey not only includes regional and global aspirations; we are building the next generation of mobility services to change the way people use vehicles

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer for our Core Team. The Core team is responsible for the platform comprising multiple microservices which drive Udrive, from onboarding to billing.

Your responsibilities

As a Full Stack Engineer (Node.js) you...

• will work with a cross-functional agile team on the backend systems that power our platform
• are somebody who is familiar with state of the art technology and development stack and best-practices, you have the option to contribute to the technology strategy and roadmap of the team
• significantly contribute with your day to day work and deliverables to the overall success of our product
• contribute to an engineering culture where developers enjoy working and keep learning
• You have close contact with our product and QA team and help them troubleshoot, debug, and maintain a high quality of our product

Your profile

• You have a track record in building web applications in agile environments.
• +3 years experience with any enterprise technology like Javascript and Node.js or similar
• You have experience using any frontend frameworks like Vue.js, React or Angular
• You have experience in test-driven development 
• You have very good knowledge of Git, development workflow automation and CI. Continuous Delivery is in our DNA.
• You have an appreciation for great user experience as much as for awesome tech architecture
• You are great at communicating with people, motivating everyone and getting the whole team on the same page
• Fluency in English

The most important one: willingness to learn. We are constantly learning new things and we enjoy it a lot. We don't expect to find people experienced in all of them. If you are excited about our tech-stack and you think you are a fast learner, do not hesitate to apply!

Desired candidates must have 2-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus