Principal Engineer

About us

Codewalla is a New York–based product studio with engineering teams in India. Since 2005, we’ve built innovative products that scale. We work at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI developing systems shaped by real business needs and tested in the real world. Our team moves fast, thinks deeply, and cares about pushing what software can do to empower people and businesses.

Role Overview

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping technical direction, modernizing legacy systems, and driving backend platform scalability. You’ll work hands-on with cloud, messaging, databases, and modern Java stacks while also guiding the team on architecture decisions. This role is about delivering high-quality backend systems while championing AI-first development practices.

What will you be working on?

• Designing and owning technical architecture for backend systems
• Leading modernization of legacy applications into scalable, cloud-ready platforms
• Building and deploying backend services using Java 8–17, Spring, and Linux environments
• Working with messaging and caching systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis)
• Designing and optimizing data layers with MongoDB or Cosmos DB
• Deploying and maintaining applications in Docker-based environments
• Driving best practices for cloud-native development on AWS and Azure
• Advocating AI-first workflows in engineering processes
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver features and platform improvements

What should you bring with you?

Why work at Codewalla?

Join us, and build the kind of career that other engineers wish they had.