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We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong background in building distributed, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years in microservices or distributed architecture, and deep expertise in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and async I/O patterns.

The candidate will own backend services end-to-end — from architecture and design to implementation, optimization, and production support — while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Backend Architecture & Development

• Architect, design, and implement backend services using Python (preferably FastAPI) with clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Develop microservice components, service communication layers, and distributed workflows.
• Build APIs and backend modules optimized for performance, fault tolerance, and low latency.

2. Distributed Systems & Scalability

• Design and maintain distributed systems capable of handling high throughput and large-scale operations.
• Implement inter-service communication patterns (REST, event-driven, message queues, pub/sub).
• Ensure system resiliency through redundancy, graceful degradation, and autoscaling strategies.

3. Asynchronous & Event-Driven Architecture

• Build async workflows, background tasks, and pipeline services leveraging asyncio or async frameworks.
• Develop event-driven components including producers, consumers, and event processors.
• Optimize I/O-heavy operations to maximize concurrency and throughput.

4. Data Storage, Pipelines & Caching

• Design relational schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and work with PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexes, partitions, query planning).
• Implement caching strategies, rate limiting, distributed locks, and session storage using Redis.
• Build data validation pipelines and compliance-driven data flows ensuring data correctness and auditability.

5. Security, Reliability & Observability

• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure API practices.
• Build monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing systems using modern observability tools.
• Diagnose production issues, identify bottlenecks, and drive long-term fixes and improvements.

6. Code Quality & Technical Leadership

• Conduct detailed code reviews and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
• Participate in technical roadmap planning, architectural discussions, and system design decisions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; drive a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years building microservices or distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI (or Flask/Django with async exposure).
• Deep understanding of async I/O, concurrency models, and asynchronous programming in Python.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, advanced queries, optimization).
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching, queues, session management, and distributed patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message processing, or streaming systems.
• Solid understanding of system design, scalability principles, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud environments.

• ASP.Net
• MVC
• Web Services, WCF & Web API
• SQL Server 
• C#
• Angular (4 & above)
• JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Assist in daily accounting operations (entries, invoicing, reconciliations)
• Support preparation of monthly financial statements
• Help manage accounts receivable and payable
• Manage invoices, vendor payments, and petty cash.
• Assist with GST, TDS, and other tax filings
• Coordinate with internal teams for budget tracking
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WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

• Pursuing or recently completed B.Com / M.Com / MBA (Finance)
• Familiarity with accounting tools like Tally (preferred)
• Strong Excel skills – must know VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, SUMIF, Filters, etc.
• Detail-oriented and strong with numbers
• Eager to learn and take ownership of tasks
• Available to work from office (Indiranagar, Bangalore)

Accounting and Compliances

• Responsible for day to day accounting function of the organization 
• Responsible for monthly/ yearly book closing
• Responsible for all statutory compliances including TDS, RBI, MCA etc.
• Ensuring adequate controls are in place
• Managing the payroll process

Lender Management

• Accurately calculating the billing amounts 
• Managing the invoicing & collection process

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Responsible for the weekly/monthly MIS Reporting – internal as well as investor reporting 
• Analysing the variances from the forecasted numbers

Taxation

• Managing the Corporate taxes including the tax audit
• Managing in the Indirect taxes including Goods and Service Tax

Treasury

• Monitoring the day-to-day cash and bank movements to calculate the free cash flows

Your Role

• Should have worked on end to end talent management - hire to retire model Should be able to take us through the employee lifecycle process
•  Should be good at interacting with people and should have done the following: Conduct review and appraisal cycle across teams
•  Look after employees' growth
•  who is ready for promotion, who needs to do something different within the organization, who are the high potentials 
• How to measure performance
•  Benchmarking compensation across companies
•  Attrition planning
•  Succession planning
•  Driving Learning & Development across company
•  Ensuring cultural homogeneity
•  Employee engagement 
• Performance Management and its process
• Compensation benchmarking

Onboarding & Induction - Should have done the following:

•  Plan and execute staff welfare programs.
•  Provide a presentation to new joiners about HR policies of the company.
•  Discuss about future planning and expansion of company with employees
•  Organize health awareness programs for employees. 
• Take care of maintaining a good relationship between employee and employer.

Employee Grievance Handling: Should have been involved in the below: 

• Prepare and maintain employee retention policy. 
• Handle and resolve grievances of employees. 
• Resolve problems between employee and employer regarding different issues eg: compensation, processes, policies, etc. Share instances of any difficult issue resolved.

HR Compliances & Organizational Development 

Should have worked closely with other HR stakeholders for the following.

•  Coordinate with HR Ops for registering new employees in EPF, ESI and medical benefits. 
• Check and clear expense reports of employees with HR Ops 
• Responsible for joining and exit interviews. 
• Implementation of new policies according to the system. 
• Alignment of staffing philosophy, strategies, and values with business goals. Maintain a record of all employees data- joiners, leavers Work with auditors for all HR Audit purposes.

Must Haves

• 3-5 Years of experience in HRBP Functions in a Startup company.
• Developing HR strategies, policies, and practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Being Data Oriented is a must.
• Analytical skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Proactive nature.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Highly organized.
• Great people skills.

Why is this exciting to you?

•  You are interested in being a part of a young and fast paced environment; to implement market best practice.
•  You are keen to put in place strong processes, and systems, and this is a chance to work in a company which is not burdened by legacy systems.
•  You realize that you are joining the team at an early stage, and can play a pivotal growth role as the company grows; you are excited to be early at the table.
•  You care about people and your team members, and you want to influence positive change.

• Work closely with our high-value customers (large Ed-Youtubers and offline Educators) and multiple teams inside Classplus to bring to life new revenue streams

• Project manage the expansion of existing revenue streams by establishing reporting and governance cadences, working closely with various business leaders within the company

• Lead the external stakeholder management, new and existing partnerships, breaking into prospective Educator networks and conducting rigorous market research

• Own hiring and scaling of new teams, business functions and creating a playbook for scaling these with low human intervention

• Spearhead 0-1 initiatives with the business leaders and help them out with process improvements as well as drive founder initiatives anchored around revenue generation

• Manage operational execution level elements as we scale and build new businesses

• Are a seasoned veteran: Have 5-7 years of experience in business teams of high-growth top-tier startups, within which Ed-tech and B2B experience is a plus

• Bring your A-game: Bring a founder mindset to work everyday - extreme ownership, buck stops at you, aggression to win, uncompromising ethics, have a strong data orientation and are a self-starter

• Are a people-person: Can work with multiple stakeholders, keep them aligned toward a common vision and maintain relationships that stand the test of time

• Know the yard: Have gotten your hands dirty with complex execution and have a strong operational experience in building things that did not exist before

• Can innovate: Have managed revenue targets in the past, while having thought of and implemented out of the box experiments that made your revenue growth organically sustainable

• Are trustworthy: Are great with people and think quick on your feet, have an irreverence for bottlenecks and reverence for solutions

• Can adapt and improvise: Have strong learning agility and pick things up quickly, are able to multitask with 2-3 simultaneously open threads and have a high tolerance for rapid context switching
  
  

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ❤ 

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.