# Senior Software Engineer - Backend (f/m/d) at Newboxes

> Hybrid · India · Senior · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Anewboxes%3A2746123 (read 2026-11-10).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Newboxes](https://alderhq.app/companies/newboxes)
- Location text: Chennai; Hybrid
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · India (evidence: "Location lists "chennai"")
- Posted: 2026-08-07 (95 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://newboxes.jobs.personio.de/job/2746123
- Skills listed (inferred): JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PHP, Azure, SQL

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (India, n 8): p25 ₹20.3L, median ₹55L, p75 ₹82.3L

## Description (the employer's text)

### About us

- Industrial Decision Intelligence
- Risk & Safety systems
- Cost & Complexity management
- Governance & program transparency
### Your Mission

- 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

- 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
- 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 team's 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 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.

### Your Benefits

- 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
### Your application

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