Principal Engineer

Experience: 6.00 + years

Salary: INR 4000000-6000000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 15 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: SARAL)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - SARAL)

What do you need for this opportunity

Must have skills required:

EX-Founder, Postgre SQL, Team management, Express Js, Node Js, TypeScript

SARAL is Looking for:

Why This Role

We're looking for a senior backend engineer or technical leader who loves solving hard problems and building products customers genuinely value. This is a high-ownership seat in a lean startup: you'll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and ship production-grade systems — with real influence over what gets built and how.

What You'll Do

• Own backend architecture. Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable APIs and backend services that support rapid feature iteration.
• Raise the engineering bar. Run PR reviews, unblock junior engineers, and push the team toward cleaner, more reliable code.
• Drive technical decisions. Lead architecture discussions and help the team navigate complex engineering trade-offs.
• Optimize for scale. Improve performance, latency, throughput, and reliability as the product grows.
• Partner cross-functionally. Work closely with product, design, and leadership to turn requirements into shipped impact.
• Stay customer-obsessed. Understand why something is being built, not just how — we succeed when our customers succeed.
  
  

What You Bring

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep, hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, and PostgreSQL — non-negotiable.
• 2+ years leading engineers — mentoring, code review, and driving technical execution.
• Strong system design instincts: you think in terms of scalability, reliability, and maintainability, not just does it work.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs in production.
• Solid command of SQL and database performance tuning — writing, analyzing, and optimizing complex queries.
• Working knowledge of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached, or similar).
• A bias for action — you're comfortable making calls and solving problems without a predefined playbook.
• Nice to have: hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS).
  
  

How You'll Work

• Schedule: Flexible startup hours, roughly a 10-hour day (9:30/10:00 AM – 8:00/8:30 PM). Weekends off.
• Environment: Fully remote, high-trust, high-ownership. You're expected to take initiative and own outcomes end to end.
  
  

Interview Process

• Profile Screening — Reviewed jointly by Head of Engineering and Founder; a shortlist from either moves forward.
• Technical Assignment — A hands-on exercise assessing engineering and problem-solving ability.
• Technical Round — with Head of Engineering
• Final Round — with Founder
  
  

How to apply for this opportunity

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• Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
• Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
  
  

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