Key Highlights:
- 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)
- Significant
: 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 new 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
- Mentor

📌 Lead Backend Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Airblack
📍 Gurugram