shopify developer

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

Within the Senior Back-End Drupal Developer role, you will be responsible for planning, building, and supporting websites for our clients.

Key responsibilities include:

• Identifying requirements and planning out the technical approach to implement the right solution for our clients
• Helping develop custom back-end functionality for our clients' Drupal websites
• Building web services and working with various APIs
• Helping to improve our development methods and practices demonstrating a commitment to quality
• Keeping up to date with the latest development trends and introducing new technologies where relevant and appropriate
• Providing support and maintenance for our clients' existing Drupal websites
• Supporting other members of the development team through training, code review and knowledge shares

Skills Required:

• Recent experience working with Drupal 8
• An excellent knowledge of PHP and a thorough understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts
• Previous experience of working with APIs (JSON/XML)
• Experience in interacting with databases using SQL
• An understanding of version control systems such as Git
• Experience of working within a busy development environment with deadlines to meet
• Ability to understand problems and explain their complexity clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Commitment to creating clear documentation and understanding the requirement for it
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A friendly personality with strong interpersonal skills

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Write all clean object-oriented PHP as well as efficient SQL
• Integrate features and improvements that can support our large-and-growing SAAS product.
• Take initiative and contribute to technical solutions, R&D.
• Contribute to internal tools/processes that help us manage the product and QA cycle
• Perform Unit testing.
• Opportunity to learn and work on interesting solutions like Application Scaling, Microservices, Batch Processing, Javascript frameworks like ReactJS.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Adhere to milestones assigned

Skills:

• Must require solid programming proficiency with Core PHP.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS and how to apply it in application code is a must.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages.
• Exposure to designing and building APIs (REST/HTTP/Soap) is highly preferred.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Experience with any MVC framework is an added advantage.
• Proficient understanding of software testing
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Bitbucket, Git is an advantage
• Understanding of product development environments and methodologies like Agile highly preferred
• Good problem-solving skills.

Desired Profile:

• Minimum 1.5 years of experience developing web applications and understanding modern PHP standards.
• The candidate should be willing to work with a startup/mid-size company.
• The candidate must love to code and must possess a thorough knowledge of web technologies.
• Motivated and ambitious to learn new technologies, grow as a leader in quick time.
• Good communication skills - must be able to explain work and provide answers in English

• Preferably 5+ years of experience in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) development stack
• Proven software development experience in PHP and of developing REST (JSON) / SOAP (XML) based web services
• Experience in Cloud platform like AWS/Azure
• Experience with HTML5 / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / AJAX / Angular / Yii Framework is preferred
• Experience in caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• Experience in tools like Ansible, Docker
• Knowledge of source control systems such as GIT is a plus

• Be able to work in cross-function teams
• Write high-quality code per industry standards and best practices
• Test the code for quality assurance, debug identified bugs and resolve issues
• Support in deploying and maintenance of product and services
• Documenting product services progress, status, and manuals
• Participate in team meetings and planning & review sessions

• Closely work with Seniors
• Analyse and Implement the code.
• Perform Unit Testing
• Work in an Agile Environment
• Contributing in all Agile Ceremonies.

• Expertise in building web applications and APIs.
• Strong knowledge in PHP core and web framework Laravel
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, AJAX.
• Familiar with MYSQL query language
• Knowledge of frontend backend integration
• Knowledge in Linux based OS like Ubuntu is an added advantage
• writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Willingness to own a responsibility
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Good to have worked on end to end in projects