Position: Lead Backend Engineer
Location: In Office (Gurgaon)
Experience: 5-10 years of hands-on experience in scaling backend services. Strong preference to candidates with experience of scaling B2C apps to millions of active users
CTC Range: Market‑level CTC + meaningful ESOPs (high ownership)
Important: Apply only if you are ok with high rigor. This role will average 60 hour workweeks with high skin in the game / ESOP / best in class pay. If you are not comfortable going all in, this may not be the right role for you. This role grows into a CTO / Head of Engineering in 2-3 years
About Airblack & Zudo
Airblack is India’s largest alternate skilling platform. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities. With a lean team of under 30 people working at the intersection of AI and learning, we are on track to cross 100cr in revenue run-rate in FY27.
We currently operate in sectors such as content creation, SME skills, beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses,
impacting over 1M learners every month. Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month. One of our recent products, Zudo, is now India’s fastest growing apps in the skilling / content space.
Airblack has raised Rs. 100cr+ from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.
What would you be doing?
Own end to end development cycle from product conceptualisation with business to shipping the feature to measuring impact
Setting the roadmap for agentic development cycles
System architecture and performance for AI chat, personalised learning, AI Voice and multiple features touching 1M+ learners every month
Mentoring and coaching ot
📌 Lead Backend Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Airblack
📍 Gurugram
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