# Principal Engineer - Backend

> Weekday AI · Mumbai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-07

**Salary:** INR 2,000,000–4,000,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

**Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 4000000 (ie INR 20 - 40 LPA)**

Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India  
JobType: full-time

**Responsibilities** 

\- Co-lead end-to-end design and development efforts for high-volume, low-latency applications for real-time event based systems 

  
\- Lead and direct senior software engineers, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of platform modules and features 

  
\- Deliver high-availability and high-performance platform using microservices architecture

  
\- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in code, and devise solutions to production and non-production issues

  
\- Keep an eye out for open source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products

  
\- Transform business functionalities and production specifications into technical requirements and low level design

  
\- Be hands-on, adopt a practical approach to software and technology 

  
\- Work with product management and other teams to build highly scalable products

## Requirements

**Requirements**

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field  
8 to 10 years of design and development experience in scalable and distributed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, JPA, Spring framework and RESTful web services  
Excellent coding skills in Java  
Experience in managing, implementing and optimizing big data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch  
Experience in deploying applications and using various managed services provided by cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)  
Experience in front-end technologies HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS, React and D3.js is preferred  
Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design  
Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership

### Must-have skills

Java

### Good-to-have skills

Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, AWS

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/853138FEFF/apply)

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