About the Role: We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to build and scale robust backend systems that power technology products used by millions of students, teachers, and government stakeholders across India. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, writing high-quality production code, and designing systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable. You will work closely with the founders, product managers, AI/ML engineers, and the broader engineering team to deliver mission-critical features and improve the performance of large-scale education platforms.

Beyond implementation, you will be expected to take ownership of system architecture, technical decision-making, production reliability, and engineering best practices. You will mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and help establish a culture of technical excellence while remaining an active contributor to the codebase. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy building products with real-world impact, and want to solve engineering challenges at national scale, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference through technology.

Roles And Responsibilities Develop, enhance, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.

Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and thoroughly tested production-quality code.

Design and implement scalable system architectures capable of supporting high-traffic education platforms.

Build and optimize APIs, databases, caching mechanisms, message queues, background processing, and cloud-based deployment workflows.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve performance bottlenecks during large-scale assessment cycles with high concurrent user traffic.

Drive technical decisions that improve system reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency,



and maintainability.

Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application code, databases, infrastructure, and third-party integrations.

Continuously improve engineering practices by enhancing code quality, testing, observability, logging, monitoring, and deployment processes.

Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote engineering best practices across the team.

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Partner with AI/ML engineers to seamlessly integrate machine learning models into production applications.

Mentor and support junior engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and code reviews.

Take end-to-end ownership of critical features and systems—from architecture and development to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.

Qualifications & Skills Required Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (preferred).

5–9 years of hands-on experience in software development with a strong focus on backend engineering.

Robust proficiency in one or more backend technologies such as Python, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, Java, Go, or equivalent frameworks.

Excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, clean code principles, and debugging techniques.

Strong knowledge of system design,



distributed systems, API architecture, and scalable application development.

Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar.

Hands-on experience with caching mechanisms, asynchronous processing, background jobs, message queues, and distributed workflows.

Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining secure RESTful APIs.

Good understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, rate limiting, and data privacy best practices.

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.

Experience with Docker, containerization, and modern deployment pipelines.

Ability to write automated tests and contribute to reliable CI/CD and release processes.

Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade software used by real-world users at scale.

Experience with technologies such as FastAPI, Django, Redis, Kafka, Celery, MongoDB, or similar tools.

Experience integrating backend systems with React Native or Android applications.

Proven ability to design and scale systems handling high concurrency and large user volumes.

Experience with observability and monitoring tools, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Hands-on experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ALB, or RDS.

Exposure to integrating AI/ML models into production applications.

Prior experience working in EdTech, GovTech, HealthTech, or other large-scale consumer technology platforms.

Understanding of building applications for low-bandwidth, low-resource, Bharat-first environments.

Proficiency in Hindi and/or Marathi will be an added advantage.

Salary Range ₹15,00,000 – ₹20,00,000 Document Applications Closed

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