Node.js Developer

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 revolutionise how the world learns. As a Backend Engineer, you will be building the backend for an AI system and working directly on AI. 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.

Role: Backend Engineer

Experience: 2–4 Years

Location: Remote

Education: B.Tech/M.Tech from IITs only

Tech Stack: Node.js, Golang, Microservices, REST APIs, AWS

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable backend services using Node.js and Golang
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices architecture for high-performance applications
• Optimize and refactor code for performance and scalability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data teams
• Work in a cloud-native AWS environment with CI/CD and containerization

What We’re Looking For

• 2–4 years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on with Node.js and Golang
• Experience in building distributed systems and APIs
• Good understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and performance optimization
• Must be from IITs (any campus)
• Strong problem-solving skills and startup mindset

Perks:

• 100% Remote Work
• Work with a high-caliber team from top institutes
• Impact-driven, fast-paced startup culture

Description:

We are looking for a highly capable NodeJS developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Extensive web services development with RESTful interfaces
• Integration of data storage solutions, Solution for MongoDB, API Integration
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of applications target for the range of any kind of web application API development and Solidity experience is better if candidate has knowledge.
• Primary focus will be development of React based web applications and their integration with back-end API services.
• Independent practitioner and advanced programmer and will be working alongside cross platform engineers and testers on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and bug fix.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Engagement in client communication, requirement collection, analysis, and documentation activities, in case if it would require.
• Design and Implement Architecture solutions
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Able to make sure that the platforms keep up with high standards of scalability, stability, security, and performance.
• Convey effectively all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues.
• Troubleshooting bug reports and help to establish ambitious goals to improve our codebase in general

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Node JS
• Should have worked on at least one Node JS framework
• Must have worked on Agile development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies
• In-depth knowledge of Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Postman, REST API
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written (English)
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

How we work:

• We use Microsoft Teams for daily communication, conduct daily standups and team meetings over Teams.
• We value open discussion, ownership, and a founder mindset.
• We prioritize design, amazing UI/UX, documentation, to-do lists, and data-based decision-making.
• We encourage team bonding through bi-weekly town halls, destressing sessions with a certified healer, and fun company retreats twice a year.
• We offer a 100% remote workplace model, health insurance, top performers eligible for attractive equity options, mental health consultations, company-sponsored upskilling courses, growth hours, the chance to give back with 40 hours for community causes, and access to a financial advisor.
• Wobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Responsibilities:

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

- Implementation of security and data protection.

- Integration of data storage solutions {mysql, redis}.

- Understanding the requirements and planning the implementation accordingly.

- Good interaction with the team. Good debugging skills.

Skills:

- Strong proficiency with JavaScript {optimized code}.

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {sequelize}.

- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

- Optimization in terms of memory and time.

- Good understanding of server-side templating languages.

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.

- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.

- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.

- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.