About us

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.

Your Mission

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.

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 Profil

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 https://jobeax.com/link/JSd7UYCSg572jJDY / 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)

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

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.

Apply via our online portal

About us

newboxes stands for a renaissance of engineering.

We help companies and engineers think deeper, design smarter, and move forward with humanity.

As an engineering‑focused management and innovation consultancy, newboxes combines systems thinking, cultural transformation, and technological expertise. Our solutions span from risk and safety to cost and complexity, delivered by a global team based in Germany and India.

Our approach is rooted in a new form of engineering intelligence that unites rational clarity, creative design, and human values.

We don’t just deliver projects. We create movements.

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

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