
Enguru is India’s leading destination for online learning English, with over 4 crore learners who have used our products. enguru caters to multiple audiences, including adult and children learners looking to learn English through live group and/or personal classes.
About the role
You will get to lead backend development across the enguru product suite, including our spoken English app for adults and spoken English app for kids amongst others. You will work closely with other engineers and product managers to help optimise the architecture across our apps.
Desired Experiences & Skillsets
- Experience with Python/Django and worked with &
- End-to-end expertise in web application
- Strong understanding of structured & unstructured databases
- Proficient with JS Frameworks
- Dev-ops experience around handling deployments &
- Led and/or collaborated closely with team members
Proficiency with tools such as
- Python
- Django
- Rest APIs (and RESTful API principles)
- Angular
- React
- mongoDB
- AWS
- Docker

About Enguru (Kings Learning Private Limited)
About
enguru is a mobile app that is revolutionizing English learning across Asia. With over 40 million users, enguru helps young adults improve their fluency and confidence through live online classes & gamified levels. We have onboarded 400+ teachers to date & our group classes consistently demonstrate strong learning outcomes for students.
In 2022, enguru was acquired by US-based Open English, the leading English learning platform in Latin America & Europe. With Open English’s support, we will increase our teacher & student base, expand our curriculum & further improve our content. With an immediate focus on India, enguru will also expand to South-East Asia over the next few years.
This is an opportunity to help build a high-quality, affordable English learning program for young adults across India. Enguru is entering a high growth phase with backing from an established player in the market & we are looking for ambitious, self-motivated individuals to join the team!
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