Backend Engineer SDE I & SDE II

Required Core Tech Stack:

We're looking for engineers with hands-on experience across most of the following technologies:

• Python Backend Development (3+ years)
• FastAPI (2+ years of production experience required)
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Docker
• Celery or equivalent async task queues
• REST APIs & Microservices
• AWS/GCP
• GitLab CI/CD

The selected Sr. Backend engineer will ship the backbone that powers 4 million + learners in 64 countries—owning APIs that crunch 1 billion learning events & the AI that supports it with <200 ms latency.

What You'll Do:

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

• Shipping 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 (Applicants without these skills are unlikely to move forward):

• 3+ 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)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

Why LearnTube?

• Build AI products at global scale – Your work will power learning experiences for 4M+ learners across 64 countries.
• Work directly with experienced founders – Collaborate closely with founders who are deeply involved in product and engineering decisions, giving you ownership and a direct impact on the product roadmap.
• Learn fast – Join a high-performing team where you'll own features end-to-end and solve challenging backend and distributed systems problems.
• Recognized AI startup – LearnTube is a Google Top 20 AI Startup and part of Google's AI First Startup Accelerator, with access to cutting-edge AI technology and mentorship.

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.

Key Skills & Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Java 11 and above
• Hands-on expertise in Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture
• Strong Programming, Analytical, and Problem-Solving skills
• Proficiency with NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cosmos DB) and RDBMS (SQL/Oracle/Postgres)
• Experience with Messaging Queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
• Good understanding of Functional and Domain knowledge
• Expertise in Project Architecture & Data Flows
• Proficient in CI/CD tools (Jenkins or equivalent)
• Strong experience with Testing Frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, BDD
• Basic knowledge of Cloud Platforms (Azure / AWS)
• Familiarity with Project Management Tools – JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
• Monitoring tools knowledge like New Relic, Splunk, Nagios (good to have)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java 11+ and Spring Boot
• Build and manage microservices-based solutions ensuring high performance and low latency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows
• Ensure code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and BDD practices
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) for data modeling and optimization
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance system performance using tools like Splunk, New Relic, Nagios
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members

Java back end developer

Chennai  

3+yrs

3 to 5 years Java,

Sprint Boot, Hibernate,

REST API Design Patterns SQL,

Oracle,

Table design

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly

• 5 +yrs of ITExperience
• A candidate with strong OOP skills as well as strong web front end skills(HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery etc.)and a lot of MySQL/MsSQL exposure and ideally stored procedureGood Experience in Core PHP and any PHP Frameworks (Laravel/Symphony/Zend).
• Experience in AngularJs & AWS is plus