Principal Software Engineer - Backend
Darwinbox
7 - 10 years
Hyderabad, Mumbai
Posted: 18/06/2025
Job Description
About Us:
We’re designing the future of work by building the world's best HR tech, driven by a fierce focus on employee experience and customer success, and continuous, iterative innovation. Founded in 2015, we now serve 1.5M+ employees in 650+ enterprises, and that includes massive conglomerates to unicorn startups, like Swiggy, Makemytrip, JSW, Vedanta, Mahindra, Kotak, plus leading global brands like Nivea, Starbucks, Sephora, AXA, Cigna, T-Systems, and Calvin Klein. We’re backed by marquee investors like TCV, Salesforce, Sequoia, Lightspeed Ventures, and others. But most importantly, we’re growing at a phenomenal pace, which means exponential growth and learning opportunities for you, plus a band of passionate and fun people to work with within a place where your ideas take precedence over your designation.
What’s in for you?
You will be a part of a passionate and high caliber Engineering team playing a pivotal role in building the coolest next-generation enterprise product.
You will have solid and fast-paced learning solving complex challenges for employees of India’s most reputed companies. We promise you the best-in-industry compensation. More importantly, we will provide you with a challenging yet fun-filled working environment, exposure to the complete product development lifecycle, real-time business challenges, and how you will address them through digital products.
Best in industry benefits - Company provided medical insurance for you and your family (not included in CTC), Free snacks, sponsored games like beach volleyball and badminton, and a lot of partying :)
You will also have a chance to work with and be mentored by the founders directly
What are your responsibilities?
- Closely work with the product management team to transform the product roadmap into the engineering plan.
- Convert high-level engineering plan into an agile sprint plan with accurate effort estimation ensuring smooth and
- timely delivery – Take complete ownership and lead from the front with high levels of hands-on expertise.
- Create relevant engineering practices and policies, to improve productivity, and efficiency and build predictability in a very dynamic environment.
- Recruit and build high-performance teams.
What do we look for in you?
- 7+ Years of Hands-on-experience with scalable Architecture, Distributed Systems, and Cloud Technologies
- Well-versed with SOA principles, cloud-based web services architecture, design patterns, and frameworks Development experience in any of the languages Nodejs/PHP/Mean Stack
- Demonstrated technical expertise in Relational and Non- Relational Databases.
- Exposure to API concepts would be an added advantage.
- Ability to create/review base-level architecture, and create and maintain product roadmaps.
As fitment with the organization's culture is very important you will immensely like the job if you:
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced company environment.
- Should be stack agnostic and should not have any tech prejudice.
- Willing to work in Nodejs/PHP + MongoDB-driven environment.
- Prefer non-hierarchical, independent, and non-pushy environments.
- Are self-motivated to take up a high degree of ownership.
- Passionate about programming and can't sleep without coding.
About Company
Darwinbox is a cloud-based HR management platform that provides end-to-end HR solutions for businesses. The platform offers features such as recruitment, performance management, payroll, learning, and employee engagement to help organizations manage their workforce more efficiently.
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