Overview
At Quizizz, we are building engaging learning experiences for teachers and students. Our mission is to motivate every learner and help them achieve their true potential. We are among one of the fastest-growing Edtech platforms globally and are currently used by 80% of the US schools every month, serving over 70M monthly actives around the world. Our goal is to reach every classroom around the world.
Quizizz has a passionate user base—We have organically reached this scale. Our NPS is 82 and our users love and deeply care about the platform. Check out our https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=quizizz&src=typd" target="_blank">Twitter page to see all the love shared by our users.
We are a venture-backed and profitable company creating a meaningful impact in K-12 education. We are a small, passionate, global team working on challenging problems to improve education. Look forward to using the latest technologies, fast development, and interacting with users to build delightful product experiences.
What the future holds
- You will architect, build, scale, backend system that powers our applications which are loved and used by millions of learners every day.
- You will work closely with a cross-functional team consisting of strategy, design, development, and program managers to determine how to design scalable backend systems and APIs to meet their needs.
- You possess a passion for improving techniques, processes, tracking, and continuously improving our engineering practices.
Requirements
- You will be utilizing technologies like Redis and Websockets to create a high-reliability, low-latency API that will handle massive multiplayer sessions.
- You will be building a database layer using MongoDB to efficiently store/retrieve large amounts of data.
- You will be setting up suitable backup and redundancy measures for maintaining 100% uptime for all our mission-critical services.
- You will be logging all data, and setting up jobs to generate analytics reports that will drive all our decisions.
Benefits
At Quizizz, we have built a world-class team of talented individuals. While we all care deeply about our work, we also ensure that we maintain a healthy work-life balance. Our policies are designed to ensure the well-being and comfort of our employees. Some of the benefits we offer include:
- Healthy work-life balance. Put in your 8 hours, and enjoy the rest of your day.
- Flexible leave policy. Take time off when you need it.
- Comprehensive health coverage of Rs. 6 lakhs, covering the employee and their parents, spouse and children. Pre-existing conditions are covered from day 1, and also benefits like free doctor consultations and more.
- Relocation support including travel and accommodation, and we'll also pay for a broker to find your home in Bangalore!
- Rs. 20,000 annual health and wellness allowance.
- Professional development support. We will reimburse you for relevant courses and books that you need to become a better professional.
- Delicious Meals including breakfast and lunch served at office, and a fully-stocked pantry for all your snacking needs.

About Quizizz
About
We’re on a mission to motivate every student by building the world’s best learning tools—whether you’re in the classroom or studying on your own. We support more than 20 million students in 100 countries and are used in over 30% of U.S. schools. Over 80 million questions have been created by teachers on our crowdsourced platform. If you want to work in a small team making a massive impact in education, drop us a message!
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Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
Location = Pune
You are required to:
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
Write well designed, testable & efficient code.
Ensure designs comply with specifications.
Prepare and produce releases of software components.
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
Our Current Stack
Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL, NGINX Plus.
Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5
Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io (websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache
Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA.
Technical Skills required
JAVA, SPRING OR SPRING BOOT, DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS, HIBERNATE, MYSQL, MONGODB and NOSQL
What Makes You Eligible?
LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES FROM PUNE LOCATION ONLY.
B. Tech degree ONLY ( FIRST CLASS GRADE IN FINAL YEAR 60 % OR ABOVE ONLY).
Experience in the same role of almost 1-2 years.
Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.
Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).
Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.
Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5 CSS.
Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.
Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus)
Fair spoken and written English Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!
Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.
What you will be doing
- Building and maintaining Java micro services.
- Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
- Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Java based services.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
- Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
- Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
- Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
- Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.
What you need to be successful
- Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
- Understands the culture and upholds it
- Well respected with the team
- Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
- Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
- Be a role model for the people in your team
- Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
- Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
- If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
- Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
- Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
- Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services,continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
- Proficient with SpringBoot, Hibernate, JUnit and other Java frameworks apart from RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.
Requirement:
1. Node Js min 2 yrs exp.
2. Database - MONGO, SQL, etc. min 2yrs experience with these.
3. Caching - REDIS, MEMCACHED etc
4. Message Queues - RABBIT MQ, Kafka, etc.
Location: Delhi (Work from office).
Package : Upto 12 LPA
Job Description
We are looking for a great Java Developer who is passionate about working in the Microsoft tech stack using Java. Your primary focus will be on developing common reusable components and implementing them following well-known best practices. You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving and an attitude to learn is essential.
Job Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance.
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
- Prepare and produce releases of software components.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
- Design and develop dockerised microservices for cloud
Required skills and experience include:
- BS in Computer Science or other field of study and applicable work experience.
- Most likely 3-5 years of experience on Java Web Development.
- Experience in developing Microservices for cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) is preferred
- Experience in Spring Framework (Spring boot, spring Batch), Spring MVC, Microservice model, RESTful web services
- Experience in databases like SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB is desired.
- Should have hands-on experience on Hibernate, JPA or MyBatis or any other persistence framework.
- Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
- Knowledge of Maven/gradle
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes
- Good Communication skills ( English)
Primary Skills(Mandatory)
Core and Advanace Java 1.8 , Web and Microservice development using java (Jsp, Servlet, Spring boot, Spring MVC), Restful Web Services, Spring framework, RDBMS (Postgres, Mssql server), Hibernate
Secondary Skills
Java script, Frontend web development - (Angular,nodejs) ( Not mandatory)
Additional Information
- Should have experience of working in any previous IT Software company
- Any additional certification will be a plus
- Comfortable working from Office.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to)
Implement new features using Ruby on Rails/ReactJS/MySql/AWS tech stack.
Learn our cloud-based application and our human business processes.
Reduce risk by identifying a portion of the application code that can modularized into its own
service; set up an API between that service and the main application.
● Experience Level: Min 2+ years
● Experience working with Nodejs/any JS framework, operating blockchain nodes especially in
Ethereum.
● Knowledgeable about smart contract security and best practices (design patterns).
● Build back-end web services that interact with the Ethereum blockchain.
● Research, design, implement and maintain all decentralized finance systems.
● Good Communication Skills.
Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency.
Must have
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python
- Exposure to databases: any of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
- Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
- Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3
- Proficiency with Git
- MUST: Using REST to make API calls.
Great to have:
- Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
- Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ
Soft skills:
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
What will you do at Tradyl:
(Examples for illustration only)
- Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service.
- Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
- Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
- Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
- Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
- Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events.











