Senior Software Engineer - Backend (f/m/d)

newboxes builds systems that enable better industrial decisions. We operate at the intersection of engineering, risk, cost, and program governance. In addition to our consulting services, we develop digital systems that structure complexity in industrial environments. Our platform initiatives focus on: Industrial Decision Intelligence

Risk & Safety systems

Cost & Complexity management

Governance & program transparency

We build software that supports real engineering organizations — not consumer apps.

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 work directly influences how large industrial organizations manage risk, cost, and performance.

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

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

Key responsibilities 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

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.

Nice-to-have 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.

What success looks like in the first 90 days

Shipped and owns at least one production service independently

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

Comfortable with the team's async collaboration rhythm with German Time zone (CET/ CEST)

You'll be one of the first set of Software engineers on the ground in Chennai GCC of newboxes, 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.

Best in the Industry compensation

30 days paid vacation per year

High technical ownership

Long-term architectural responsibility

Modern tech environment

Direct, visible impact — your work shapes the product from day one, not buried in a massive codebase

If you want to build products end-to-end and help shape an engineering team from its earliest days, we'd love to hear from you.

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