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Job Description For Associate Software Developer

 Job Title: Associate Software Developer

Company: Mydbops

Location: Pondicherry

About us:

As a seasoned industry leader for 8 years in open-source database management, we specialize in providing unparalleled solutions and services for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TiDB, Cassandra, and more. At Mydbops, we are committed to providing exceptional service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Our Customer Account Management team is vital in ensuring client satisfaction and loyalty. We are looking for a dedicated and motivated individual to join our team as a  Senior Backend Developer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior backend developers to gather requirements, understand specifications, and assist in the implementation of features.
• Design and develop efficient, scalable, and reliable software applications using Python and Go.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues in existing applications, and contribute to finding and implementing effective solutions.
• Participate in unit testing activities to ensure code quality and stability.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to deploy and maintain applications in production environments.
• Learn and stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in backend development technologies and practices.
• Contribute to code reviews, providing constructive feedback to enhance code quality and performance.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers and other developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Equivalent work experience will also be considered.
• Strong understanding of programming fundamentals and software development principles.
• Knowledge of Python and Go programming languages, with a willingness to learn and grow expertise in both.
• Familiarity with backend frameworks such as Flask or Django (Python) and Gin or Echo(Go).
• Basic understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL
• databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git.
• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and debug code issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.
• Understanding of API development and integration principles.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Passion for learning and staying updated with the latest advancements in backend
• development.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a dynamic and innovative team.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Job Details:

• Work time: General shift
• Mode of Employment - Work From Office (Pondicherry)
• Experience - 0 to 3 years

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 revolutionize how the world learns. As a Backend Engineer, 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.

1. PHP Developer/Sr. PHP Developer:

• Reviewing (if already developed) current system workflow and database design.
• Analyzing the needs of system and producing detailed specification document
• Create a step by step flow chart or psudocode for computing systems that shows how program code must be written in order to work properly.
• Develop a functional modules according as required under deadline.
• Integrating 3rd party tools wherever required.
• Perform and document unit testing for developed functions.
• System maintenance by monitoring and correcting software defects.
• Continuously updating technical knowledge and skills as per industry standards.
• Contribute to technical writers to create users documents.
• All tasks must be carried out at the highest standards.

• Strong experience on any of the modern PHP based frameworks like Laravel, Cake PHP, Symphony, etc.
• Ability to create Data Structures and Algorithms.

Experience of developing highly scalable web services and APIs using PHP.

• Development skills of Database design and information schema using NoSQL/SQL.
• Source control management (e.g. Git, SVN, Mercurial) to enable teams to work together to manage source code.
• Working over cloud computing platform like Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure
• Strong designing / problem solving skills.

• Education: BCA, MCA, Msc IT, Bsc IT or any equivalent qualification
• Work Experience: 2-6 year of experience in same field
• Good Communication skill (Preferred)
• Can work under pressure
• Meet deadlines

• Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
• Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

• Extremely effective, self-driven builder
• 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity

• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

• A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering.
• 2-4 years of experience in software product development.
• Excellent in Data structure, Algorithms &amp; Problem-solving skills.
• Should be willing to code in Node.js/Java/Python/ROR/Golang
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the tools, services, and applications that will enable us to be the planet’s most patient-focused pharmacy. You will work on projects ranging from greenfield initiatives to matured products with an active user base. 

• Collaborate with engineering team to design and implement products using event driven micro-services architecture.
• Interact with Product Managers and key stake-holders on regular basis to understand and execute Product vision.
• Take charge of end-to-end feature development, right from proof-of-concept to production deployment and support
• Brainstorm and lead continuous improvement projects for product
• Providing feedback to peer developers on code quality and development standards.
• Mentoring team on strong coding and design standards.
• Setting the bar high for development practises while striking the right balance between pragmatism and perfection for code and processes.
• Effectively document API's and services using Swagger/OpenAPI, visualize flow and dependencies using diagrams, and create technical documents on engineering wikis.
• Present crisp and clear feature demos to stakeholders.

Some of our opensource projects- https://meet.google.com/linkredirect?authuser=0&;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmedly">https://github.com/medly

We don’t expect anybody to be an expert on all of these, but you should be deeply familiar with some, and a self-starting learner who isn’t afraid to ask for help:

• Polyglot Development (at least 1 more lang apart from Java and JavaScript)
• At least one JVM language
• Functional Programming, 
• OO Design, Clean Code, SOLID principles
• Solid grasp on HTTP, and REST
• Web based SaaS product development
• Deployment to AWS or any cloud
• Test Driven Development, 
• Security Compliance like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC2
• Git, Linux, CI/CD, Gradle, IDEA
• Security based on OAuth2 / OIDC
• SQL and NoSQL DBs like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch
• Docker
• SQL Migration tools like Liquibase, Flyway
• Semantic Versioning, Feature Toggles, PR, Feature Branches

• 3+ Years of experience mainly on Backend Development using any two languages (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Ruby etc.)
• Minimum a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related field.

• Develop service/APIs using Kotlin/Micronaut Node/Serverless
• Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL DB
• AWS, Lambda, API Gateway, Amplify, Cognito, Okta
• Github, Github Actions, SonarCloud
• Database versioning using tools like Liquibase
• Terraform to manage infra
• Cloudwatch/AWS X-Ray to monitor the infra
• Opportunity to make Open Source Contribution