
SDE 2 Java Developer
at "Leading SASS based B2B product company into AI platform

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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.
Essential Responsibilities:
Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development life cycle and distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet monthly and quarterly digital product release goals
Lead impact assessment and decisions related to technology choices, design / architectural considerations and implementation strategy
Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs
Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
Desired Skills:
Java, Spring,Microservices
We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
- Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch
Job Description:
Key Responsibility Areas: |
· Design, build and deliver Enterprise software solutions. · Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices. · Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes. · Collaborate with development teams on work definition, estimation and prioritization · Lead and grow as a professional software engineer. · Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members. · Preparing curriculum to train junior developers for Java Web Development · Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service. · Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality. · Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development |
Required Skills: |
Technologies/Frameworks – · Core Java, J2EE, · Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security, · JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices · Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage · Junit or Mockito frameworks · Maven, Git · Knowledge Data Structures, · SQL, MySQL · Designing relational database schemas · Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
· BFSI, FinTech |
Qualification |
B.E., B.Tech. from reputed institutes with good academic record |
- 4 to 8 years of industry experience in (JAVA, Spring Boot , Microservices)
- Ability to effectively manage task distribution
- Able to adapt to changing business requirements and react quickly
- Strong customer focus and results-oriented attitude. Self-motivated individual & able to work independently
- Provide objective guidance without personal or political considerations.
- Pitching ideas for projects based on gaps in the market and technological advancements.
- Rolling out fixes and upgrades to software, as needed.
- Securing software to prevent security breaches and other vulnerabilities.
- Setting up a continuous build environment to speed up software development and deployment process.
- Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
- Guiding developers and operation teams in case of an issue.
- Monitoring, reviewing, and managing technical operations.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Previous experience working on a 24x7 cloud or SaaS operation team.
- Spring Boot Java 8, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Swagger, Tomcat 8, Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GIT, Postman/Newman, RESTful Services, Containers.
- Experience with infrastructure management and monitoring.
- Proven in developing, implementing, and providing solutions to the given problem in all Java technologies.
- Proficient in stitch-together end-to-end application starting from front-end web development, back-end development, middleware integration, and persisting data in no SQL or DBMS databases.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

The position requires for an individual to Develop high-volume, low-latency application for data
analytics for big consumer product corporations. The position also requires the candidate to Contribute
in all phases of the development lifecycle, write well designed, testable, efficient code. Should ensure
designs follow specifications.
An ideal candidate will be/have:
• Strong experience in Python/JAVA.
• Familiarity with Test driven development and Continuous Integration.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on with code development tools (Eclipse, GIT, Jenkins, Unit, Testing Frameworks).
• Familiar with Software development methodology like Agile methodology.
• Ability to write complex SQL.
• Desire to learn and develop new tools and techniques and share with the team
• Knowledge of cloud would be a plus
• Ability to design software modules.
1. Technical skills include Java/JDK 6 and above, web services SOAP, REST, Micro Webservice, XML Parsing and schema design skills, JDBC, ORM, Multi-Threading.
2. Hands-on experience in design (HLD/LLD) and design patterns and Design principles is mandatory.
3. Excellent communication and client handling skills are required.
4. Server-side component design, detailed technical design, development, implementation and maintenance
5. In depth knowledge of core java. Solid on coding fundamentals e.g. Object-Oriented design, data structures and dependency injection
6. Hands-on experience in widely used third party frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate)
7. Experience with Java Script framework like EXTJS, Jquery , Angular etc.
8. Strong background Object Oriented analysis and design
9. Hands on experience with Databases technologies preferably MS SQL Server.
10.Knowledge of deployment platforms Jboss/ Wildfly/Tomcat.
11.Experience working in high performing development teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools (eg.Agile,Jira)
12 Experience with automated code review tools and build process.
13.Experience in performance optimization by code optimization, profiling, detecting bottle neck and finding contended locks in system
14.Proven track record of being a successful developer and lead and mentor by accomplishing tasks on schedule with strong initiative, commitment to quality, team blending and leadership skills.
15.The candidate must be highly self-motivated confident and mature, well developed analytical and problem-solving skills with the aptitude to learn as well as a flexibility to adapt to change.
16. Candidate should have worked on end-to-end life cycle of the project (ideation to go-live)
The right candidate will be offered ESOPs as well in their compensation.

