Sr Software Engineer - Backend

Job Summary

You design and build scalable systems that structure industrial complexity. This means:

• Translating consulting logic into robust software architecture

• Designing backend and data structures that reflect real-world engineering processes

• Building reliable, scalable applications used in enterprise environments

• Contributing to long-term product architecture decisions

  Your Tasks

• Understand software requirements and take full ownership through the SDLC design, build, test, deploy, and maintain

• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs that the product depends on

• Make and document architecture decisions in collaboration with the Team at Germany

• Own data modelling, performance, and reliability for the services you build

• Contribute to early engineering standards and practices for the growing India team

• Work async-first with the Germany-based team, with overlap hours for key syncs

  Working Model

• Work from our office in Chennai and/or in Hybrid mode.

• Close daily collaboration with our team in Germany, with at least 4 to 5 hours of overlap

• You will work closely with product, engineering, and domain experts rather than in isolation

• We build products for the long term and value getting things right over shipping fast

  Your Profile

  Key responsibilities

  Must-have skills

• 3-5 years building production backend systems PHP Laravel (or a comparable stack and ability to ramp up on PHP) and Node.js / Python

• Solid grounding in API design, data modelling, and database fundamentals (SQL DBs required, NoSQL optional)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred)

• Demonstrated ability to take a requirement from spec to shipped service with minimal hand-holding

• Strong hands-on CI practice automated builds, tests, and pipelines is essential; working familiarity with CD and Infrastructure-as-Code is expected.

• Comfort working in a small team with high autonomy, in hybrid mode.

• Exposure to industrial, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, ERP, or PLM domains helpful context, not required

• Experience in an early-stage or first-engineer-on-the-ground setup

• Basic exposure to AI/ML, Enterprise AI, Agentic AI is a plus.

• Shipped and owns at least one production service independently

• Actively contributing to backend architecture conversations with the Germany-based Team Lead

• Comfortable with the teams async collaboration rhythm with German Time zone (CET/ CEST)

  Why this Role is special

You'll be one of the first set of Software engineers on the ground in Chennai and in Germany; building the backend systems the product depends on. The core ask is straightforward: the right backend stack, and the ability to take a software requirement and own it end-to-end through the SDLC. Domain exposure (Industrial Systems Decision Intelligence) is a bonus, not a prerequisite we look for strong engineering fundamentals and grow the domain knowledge on the job.

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