Backend Developer

Role Overview:

As a Backend Developer at LearnTube.ai, you will ship the backbone that powers 2.3 million learners in 64 countries—owning APIs that crunch 1 billion learning events & the AI that supports it with <200 ms latency.

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What You'll Do:

At LearnTube, we’re pushing the boundaries of Generative AI to revolutionize how the world learns. As a Backend Engineer, your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Ship Micro-services – Build FastAPI services that handle ≈ 800 req/s today and will triple within a year (sub-200 ms p95).
• Power Real-Time Learning – Drive the quiz-scoring & AI-tutor engines that crunch millions of events daily.
• Design for Scale & Safety – Model data (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, SQS) and craft modular, secure back-end components from scratch.
• Deploy Globally – Roll out Dockerised services behind NGINX on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) and GCP (GKE) via Kubernetes.
• Automate Releases – GitLab CI/CD + blue-green / canary = multiple safe prod deploys each week.
• Own Reliability – Instrument with Prometheus / Grafana, chase 99.9 % uptime, trim infra spend.
• Expose Gen-AI at Scale – Publish LLM inference & vector-search endpoints in partnership with the AI team.
• Ship Fast, Learn Fast – Work with founders, PMs, and designers in weekly ship rooms; take a feature from Figma to prod in < 2 weeks.

What makes you a great fit?

Must-Haves:

• 2+ yrs Python back-end experience (FastAPI)
• Strong with Docker & container orchestration
• Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or GCP (GKE / Compute) in production
• SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB) + You’ve built systems from scratch & have solid system-design fundamentals

Nice-to-Haves

• k8s at scale, Terraform,
• Experience with AI/ML inference services (LLMs, vector DBs)
• Go / Rust for high-perf services
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

About Us: 

At LearnTube, we’re on a mission to make learning accessible, affordable, and engaging for millions of learners globally. Using Generative AI, we transform scattered internet content into dynamic, goal-driven courses with:

• AI-powered tutors that teach live, solve doubts in real time, and provide instant feedback.
• Seamless delivery through WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web, with over 1.4 million learners across 64 countries.

Meet the Founders: 

LearnTube was founded by Shronit Ladhani and Gargi Ruparelia, who bring deep expertise in product development and ed-tech innovation. Shronit, a TEDx speaker, is an advocate for disrupting traditional learning, while Gargi’s focus on scalable AI solutions drives our mission to build an AI-first company that empowers learners to achieve career outcomes. We’re proud to be recognised by Google as a Top 20 AI Startup and are part of their 2024 Startups Accelerator: AI First Program, giving us access to cutting-edge technology, credits, and mentorship from industry leaders.

Why Work With Us? 

At LearnTube, we believe in creating a work environment that’s as transformative as the products we build. Here’s why this role is an incredible opportunity:

• Cutting-Edge Technology: You’ll work on state-of-the-art generative AI applications, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, multimodal AI, and real-time systems.
• Autonomy and Ownership: Experience unparalleled flexibility and independence in a role where you’ll own high-impact projects from ideation to deployment.
• Rapid Growth: Accelerate your career by working on impactful projects that pack three years of learning and growth into one.
• Founder and Advisor Access: Collaborate directly with founders and industry experts, including the CTO of Inflection AI, to build transformative solutions.
• Team Culture: Join a close-knit team of high-performing engineers and innovators, where every voice matters, and Monday morning meetings are something to look forward to.
• Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s redefining education for millions of learners and making AI accessible to everyone.

Role Description : Senior Java Developer

As a senior developer you will be responsible to manage the software development life cycle from planning to prioritizing to testing and release. Responsibilities includes gathering system and team product requirements, building java modules and testing features before release. Should have hands on experience developing software with agile methodologies and are ready to lead our junior developers.

Responsibilities • Contribute to all phases of development lifecycle. • Planning of API workflow. • Understanding the requirements all the teams involved and planning the development process. • Write well designed, testable, efficient code. • Prepare and produce releases of software components. • Support continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architecture review. • Designing, implementing, and maintaining java applications that are often high-volume and low latency. • Identify bottlenecks and bugs and advise solutions to these problems. • Develop highly scalable REST APIs to use in our applications. • Guide the team and help them in any complex situations.

Required Qualifications We are looking for individuals who are curious, excited about learning, and navigating through the uncertainties and complexities that are associated with a growing company. Some qualifications that we think would help you thrive in this role are: • Minimum 8+ Years in a Java programming. • Expert hands-on knowledge of latest technology, good exposure to web technologies and open to all technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, Cloud computing, any DB. • Very good exposure to DevOps concepts and tools, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. • Quick learner believes in continuous learning and acts as a catalyst for building the culture within the organization. 

• Analytical thinking skills, problem solving with strong exposure to root causing tools and techniques and ability to come up with solutions in complex situations. • Familiar with various design and architectural patterns. • Bachelor/Masters of CS/IT Engineering, BCA/MCA, B Sc/M Sc in CS/IT

Preferred Qualifications • Deep insights of Java and J2EE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc. • Skill for writing reusable Java libraries. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git. • Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle. • Ability to work without guidance and under tight deadlines. • Result oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines. • Teamwork and willingness to listen to others. • Communicate effectively • Good knowledge of microservices. • Expertise in developing enterprise level web applications and RESTful APIs using Microservices with demonstrable production-scale experience. • Strong background working with Linux/Unix environments. • Working experience in industry standard protocols related API security. • Clear understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.

Location: Bengaluru/Udupi (NO WORK FROM HOME OPTION)

Notice Period: Immediate Joining or Maximum 1 Month

Professional Requirements:

• 2-8 Years professional development experience.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Good understanding of high level and low-level design of distributed systems.
• Experience coding in any one of the following Java or Nodejs.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems on cloud infrastructure will be plus.
• Exposure to architectural pattern of a large, high-scale web application.

Requirement/responsibilities: To take a project from scoping requirements through launch of the project. Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production. Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns. Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation. Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments. Participate in design and code reviews.

• Works towards developing Stable & Efficient Applications for
• Responsible for developing Applications which are Stable, Efficient and if required cross   
• Responsible to create Native Applications for Android to achieve best performance.
• Responsible for understanding best UI Practices
• Responsible for creating Application UI utilizing latest Google UI Guide lines.
• Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech / M.C.A. in Computer Sciences.
• Should have Experience of at least one production environment Application in Google Play Store. GIT, Agile Frameworks, Jenkins
• Must have Java, Android, C, and C++.

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward. 

Top Skills

•    You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++.

•    You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

•    You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

•    You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

•    You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

•    You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

•    You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

•    You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

•    You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

•    You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

•    You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

•    You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively. 

Skills & Experience

•    Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

•    Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

•    Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

•    Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

•    Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.