What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.
What do I need? 🤓
1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems
Brownie points 🍰
Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)
Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.
Perks 😍
Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals
Tech stack 🔨
PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL
Why Classcard? 🚀
We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔
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Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.
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Video interview:
Technical discussion with a senior engineer
Pairing on an interesting problem
Meet the founders

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6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)
7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
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9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability
10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)
11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring
About the role
We are seeking a seasoned Backend Tech Lead with deep expertise in Golang and Python to lead our backend team. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in backend technologies and 2–3 years of proven engineering mentoring experience, having successfully scaled systems and shipped B2C applications in collaboration with product teams.
Responsibilities
Technical & Product Delivery
● Oversee design and development of backend systems operating at 10K+ RPM scale.
● Guide the team in building transactional systems (payments, orders, etc.) and behavioral systems (analytics, personalization, engagement tracking).
● Partner with product managers to scope, prioritize, and release B2C product features and applications.
● Ensure architectural best practices, high-quality code standards, and robust testing practices.
● Own delivery of projects end-to-end with a focus on scalability, reliability, and business impact.
Operational Excellence
● Champion observability, monitoring, and reliability across backend services.
● Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.
● Streamline development workflows and engineering processes for speed and quality.
Requirements
● Experience:
7+ years of professional experience in backend technologies.
2-3 years as Tech lead and driving delivery.
● Technical Skills:
Strong hands-on expertise in Golang and Python.
Proven track record with high-scale systems (≥10K RPM).
Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms.
● Leadership Skills:
Demonstrated success in managing teams through 2–3 appraisal cycles.
Strong experience working with product managers to deliver consumer-facing applications.
● Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Nice-to-Have
● Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
● Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
● Previous leadership experience in B2C product companies operating at scale.
What We Offer
● Opportunity to lead and shape a backend engineering team building at scale.
● A culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
● Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.
We are looking Python intern/developer role. We are looking for candidates who are strong in core Python skills, able to work independently, and strong in developing logic.
Investigate production issues pertaining to customer features to determine root cause and implement solutions,
Investigate existing queries and write new queries with performance optimization in mind, design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people,
Build well-designed software in a way that is generic, reusable, and easily extensible, as well as solves the business needs and requirements,
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software engineers to ensure design vision is maintained, the final markup is standards-compliant, and UI deliverables are completed on time,
Work with the real-time feedback from our users (external and internal) to make the
products better,
Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat!
Requirements:
4-7 years of experience,
Proficiency in web scripting programming with PHP,
Experience with MySQL Databases,
Top-notch programming skills in JavaScript and a strong understanding of web
fundamentals,
Design, build and maintain high performance, scalable and secure code,
Experience with cloud services like AWS is plus,
Experience with MVC architecture is a plus,
Knowledge/experience in building an API,
Solid understanding of the foundations of security and best practices,
Good grasp of data structures and algorithms,
Excellent problem-solving skills,
Take ownership of the backend services, ensure the best possible performance, quality and
responsiveness, as well as maintaining code quality, organization and testing/deployment,
Passionate about technology and willing to develop expertise in an emerging field,
Strong organizational and communication skills, team player.
BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.
What You Bring to the team:
- More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
- Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
- Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
- Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
- Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
- Experience building data processing pipelines
- Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
- General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
- High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
- Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools
Extra Gems for:
- Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
- Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
- Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
- Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
- Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
- Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
- Experience of working in Product industry
- Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
Why Us?
- High Growth Startup environment
- Company sponsored courses and education material
- Lots of learning opportunities
- Work with a super-talented team of professionals
- Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
- Performance Based Bonus
- Competitive Salary
- Medical Insurance for you and your family
- Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time
● Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Python or Go.
● Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
● Solid understanding of how REST APIs work: GET, POST, PUT and PATCH
● Basic understanding of AWS cloud and its services like lambda, EC2, Document DB, EKS etc.
● Understanding MongoDB would be a bonus.
● Excellent project management skills.
● Ability to work independently or with a group.
- Sound knowledge on PHP & object oriented programming.
- Good to have joomla knowledge .
- Comprehend the architecture and design of Joomla based development
- Should have good knowledge of joomla & MVC framework
- Strong database skills in SQL, MySQL, Postgre SQL and other RDBMS
- Comfortable with CSS, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, JQuery & Ajax
- Excellent understanding of Joomla and excellent knowledge on Components, Modules and Security.
- Analytical skills for Databases, data mining & MySQL
- Excellent PHP developer with Joomla who can work independently on complex Joomla applications, who have ability to build complex Joomla applications, user interfaces, design & implementation.
● 3-6 Years of experience with a Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, or related
technical domain
● Skilled in software development lifecycle, and designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered,
distributed software applications, tools, systems or services using Object Oriented Design,
distributed programming, Java, Python, Node.js.
● Knowledge of ORM tools like Hibernate, JPA.
● Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases
● Experience in deployment of microservices over Amazon Web Services
● Experience in delivering quality products using microservices architecture.
● Knowledge of Agile methodologies & best practices for the full software development life cycle,
including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing,
and operations
● Strong hold on Data Structure, Problem solving skills
To succeed at Zest, you will need
● Ability to operate and communicate with every business unit and level of hierarchy
● High levels of energy and enthusiasm for all that you do
● Be someone who does not take “no” for an answer and pushes for continuous innovation and
evolution
● Have extremely high standards in everything you do – you will be required to keep raising the bar
● Ability to think big and to inspire a vision in others
● Kindness, warmth and a positive, optimistic attitude
And what do you get in return?
● Opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting consumer growth stories in the world
● One of the best funded and most far advanced companies in the space (investors are leading
global VCs)
● We will teach you all you need to know about “Fintech”
● Endless amounts of learning and development – formal and informal
● Ability to work with some of the best, nicest and most passionate people in the digital lending
industry – from all over the world
● Founders with the right vision and motivation to make this a success story
● Freedom to work how you like (we do not do ‘facetime’)
● A culture of trust and honesty – we will not second guess you
● A flat structure with minimal politics or hierarchy
● Recognition and respect for your work
● Market beating compensation and Equity ownership for the best candidate
● Lunch, great healthcare, decent coffee and a nice office.










