Backend Developer (Python)

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
• Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
• Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
• Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
• Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.

Senior Backend Developer /Backend Developer

Hiring for the position of Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Role

●        Create and consume restful APIs

●        Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications

●        Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules

●        Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation

●        Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise

●        Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge

●        Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

●        Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience

Primary responsibilities:

•Design, develop AWS IoT/Cloud-based applications using Typescript, Node.Js.

•Work closely with onsite, offshore, and cross functional teams, Product Management, frontend developers, SQA teams to effectively use technologies to build and deliver high quality and on-time delivery.

•Proactively Identify risks and failure modes early in the development lifecycle and develop POCs to mitigate the risks early in the program.

•Assertive communication and team skills.

•This individual be self-directed, highly motivated, and organized with strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, and an ability to work on multiple projects and function in a team environment.

Experience and Skills Required:

•More than 6 years of overall experience in Software domain.

•At least 3 years of experience in Cloud native applications.

•Solid working knowledge of Typescript, NodeJS.

•Thorough working knowledge in AWS, Lambdas, Microservices etc.,

•Experience in executing CI/CD processes

•Experience in Microservices Architecture

•Good Knowledge on Cloud security & security design control implementation.

•Knowledge of (AWS IoT Core) and In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud native services including Kinesis, DynamoDB, Neptune, Lambda, API Gateway, Timestream , IoT Core, GreenGrass, Aurora, Lambda, etc.

•Great knowledge in Agile/Scrum

• Design, implement, and maintain API-based applications and REST services.
• Proficiency with Node JS.
• Must have experience in cloud services Azure Cloud/AWS.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Develop high-quality, efficient, and scalable code.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and SCRUM framework Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide technical support during implementation efforts, working with technical team members and with business users as required to provide troubleshooting and solutions to technical issues.

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework Django
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Strong experience on Linux
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i. e. PostgresSQL)
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
• Experience on RESTful APIs
• Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
• Experience on Automation Builds using Jenkins and other popular frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable

As a Software Engineer at Quince, you'll be responsible for designing and building scalable infrastructure and build applications to solve some very interesting problems in the logistics and finance tech space.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect solutions on the cloud for various business problems with workflow efficiency and scale in mind.
• Be on the forefront with the business team to learn, understand, identify and translate function requirements into technical opportunities.
• End-to-end ownership - from scoping the requirements to the final delivery of the solution with keen eye to details and quality.
• Build and improve logistics components for this innovative M2C supply-chain model.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL data pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science or closely related subject.
• 1-5 years of experience in building software solutions.
• Good at data structures and their practical applications.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Python.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining applications on cloud platforms (Ex: AWS, Google cloud).
• Proficiency with SQL and databases - relational and/or nosql (Snowflakes, AWS RedShift, etc).
• Experience with messaging middleware such as Kafka is good to have.